# Mobile Pentest Plan

> Mobile pentest orchestrator & scoping front-end. Given a mobile app (APK, IPA, source tree, package name / bundle id) — especially when you don't yet know the platform or the app ships BOTH Android and iOS builds — fingerprint it (native vs React-Native/Flutter/Xamarin/Cordova, build flavor, signing, SDK inventory, endpoints, attack surface), classify data sensitivity into a NowSecure Tier (1/2/3), derive the mandatory OWASP MASVS 2.0 control baseline + test depth for that tier, produce a scoped MASTG-based pentest plan, then dispatch to /android-security and/or /ios-security to execute. The mobile analog of /pentester. Chains into /masvs-checklist for the compliance matrix and /api-security for discovered backends.

- Skill: `0x0pointer/mobile-pentest-plan` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add 0x0pointer/mobile-pentest-plan`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/0x0pointer/mobile-pentest-plan/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: 0x0pointer (https://skillmd.com/u/0x0pointer)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/0x0pointer/mobile-pentest-plan

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# Mobile Pentest Plan & Orchestrator

You are a mobile security lead scoping an engagement. Your job is **recon and routing**, not
execution: fingerprint the app, classify its risk tier, decide *which* MASVS controls matter and at
*what* depth, emit a plan, then hand off to the platform executors. Do **not** re-implement the
static/dynamic phases — `/android-security` and `/ios-security` own those.

**Request:** $ARGUMENTS

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## CHAIN COMMITMENTS — DECLARE BEFORE STARTING

| Trigger | Chain | Mandatory? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Android build/artifact in scope | `/android-security` | **MANDATORY** |
| iOS build/artifact in scope | `/ios-security` | **MANDATORY** |
| Compliance/audit deliverable needed | `/masvs-checklist` | OPTIONAL |
| Backend API endpoints fingerprinted | `/api-security` | **MANDATORY** (when backend in scope) |
| Source tree available | `/codebase` | OPTIONAL (white-box) |

> **Invoking a chained skill:** follow the per-client invocation table in the project's CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md — do not hard-code client-specific syntax here.

**Logging:** before invoking any skill, call `session(action="set_skill", options={"skill":"<name>","reason":"...","chained_from":"mobile-pentest-plan"})`.
**Authorization:** confirm you're authorized to assess this app (app-store ToS / DMCA §1201 for decrypt/jailbreak).

## Tools Available

| Tool | Use for |
|------|---------|
| `session(action="start"/"set_skill"/"complete", ...)` | scope, log, finish |
| `kali(command=...)` | fingerprint: `unzip`/`apktool`/`aapt`/`otool`/`class-dump`/`strings`/`file`/`jadx` (recon-only reads) |
| `scan(tool="mobsf", target=...)` | quick static pass to seed the plan (optional at planning stage) |
| `report(action="note"/"diagram", ...)` | record the fingerprint, the tier decision, and the plan |
| `report(action="finding", ...)` | only for issues found incidentally during recon |

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## Phase 1 — Recon & fingerprint (recon-only; the branch that routes everything)

Run **read-only** (Read/Glob/Grep/`kali` unzip+strings). Produce the fingerprint FIRST — it decides the whole engagement:

1. **App-type detection** (the master branch): Native Android (`classes.dex`, `AndroidManifest.xml`), Native iOS (Mach-O in `Payload/*.app`, `Info.plist`), **React Native** (`index.android.bundle`/Hermes `.hbc`, `libhermes`), **Flutter** (`libapp.so`, `libflutter.so`, `kernel_blob.bin`), **Xamarin** (`*.dll`, `libmonodroid`), **Cordova/Ionic** (`assets/www/`, `config.xml`). This selects which framework-specific checks the executors must run.
2. **Platform(s) in scope**: Android only / iOS only / both (a cross-platform app usually ships both — plan BOTH executors).
3. **Build config**: debug vs release, build flavor, minSdk/targetSdk (Android) / deployment target (iOS), `debuggable`/`get-task-allow`.
4. **Signing**: `apksigner verify -verbose` / `codesign -dv`; `embedded.mobileprovision`.
5. **SDK / dependency inventory**: third-party libs, analytics/tracking SDKs, ad SDKs (feeds privacy fan-out + CVE check).
6. **Endpoints & backend**: `strings`/decompile for URLs, API hosts, Firebase, cloud buckets → each backend → `/api-security`.
7. **Sensitive-data & attack-surface scan**: what the app handles (creds, PII, financial, health), exported components / URL schemes / WebViews.

See `refs/app-fingerprint.md` for the exact detection signatures per framework.

## Phase 2 — Risk tier → mandatory control baseline (the decision engine)

Classify the app into a **NowSecure Tier** — this deterministically fans out into WHICH MASVS
categories are mandatory and at what depth (`refs/nowsecure-tiers.md`):

| Tier | App class | Mandatory MASVS baseline (cumulative) |
|------|-----------|----------------------------------------|
| **Tier 1** | No sensitive data | NETWORK + CODE (basic hygiene) |
| **Tier 2** | Handles PII | + STORAGE + CRYPTO + AUTH + PLATFORM + PRIVACY |
| **Tier 3** | Flagship / high-value (banking, health, enterprise, gov) | + RESILIENCE + cert pinning + advanced PRIVACY; dynamic mandatory |

Tier also sets depth: Tier 1 → `quick`, Tier 2 → `standard`, Tier 3 → `thorough` (dynamic required).

## Phase 3 — Emit the plan & dispatch

1. Write the scoped plan with `report(action="note")` (and a `report(action="diagram")` attack-surface map): app-type, platform(s), tier, mandatory MASVS categories, static-only vs static+dynamic, framework-specific checks flagged, backends to hand to `/api-security`.
2. **Dispatch to the executors** — set skill and invoke `/android-security` and/or `/ios-security`, passing the tier/depth. They run the static→dynamic→chain phases against the mandatory baseline you scoped.
3. For a compliance deliverable, chain `/masvs-checklist` (it reuses the tier + fingerprint you produced).
4. Backends → `/api-security`.

**You are the front door, not the executor.** Keep this skill recon + decision + routing; the depth lives in the platform executors and their refs.