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Problem I recently moved my pentesting distro around and needed to re-setup my mobile pentesting setup. During this, I found the frida versioning mismatch very hard to deal with. After reaching out to some mobile bug bounty folks, they mentioned there is a way to run mobile dynamic analysis with just Frida, no Objection. Here is how I went about it for anyone else in this struggle bus ...

2026-02-26T00:00:00-08:00 2026-02-26T00:00:00-08:00 https://deepdives.work/posts/manager-writeup/ Deep Dives

Purpose Resources Challenge Link We are given a zip that is password protected (password is provided on HTB) We are given an IP and PORT for the service for the challenge. Process We downloaded the file and then checked the readme file. In here was instructions on what API minimum is needed to install. We used adb install Manager.apk to install the app on the rooted emulator. Jus...

2026-02-25T00:00:00-08:00 2026-02-25T00:00:00-08:00 https://deepdives.work/posts/cat-writeup/ Deep Dives

Purpose Although the TCM PMPA is very thorough, I still wanted to branch out and learn more about Android and iOS pentesting as a whole. The mobile track from Hack the Box exposes me to a whole new level of attack surface outside of just static/dynamic analysis. Resources Challenge Link We are given a zip that is password protected (password is provided on HTB) Process We move ...

2026-02-24T00:00:00-08:00 2026-02-24T00:00:00-08:00 https://deepdives.work/posts/helpful-commands/ Deep Dives

Over the course of my work career I have always wanted to create indexes of random one liners that have helped me. Here is my current working set. Mobile commands Unpack android backup: ( printf "\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" ; tail -c +25 backup_file_name.ab ) | tar xfvz -