How to pass EMAPT exam

Hello 👋. In this article, i will sharing my experiences for the eMAPT certification by INE, also known as eLearnSecurity.

Exam Info

Once you start the exam, you will be provided with four Android mobile applications along with the letter of engagement. This engagement letter outlines the objectives you need to meet to pass the exam. To pass, you are required to provide a working Android mobile application that can exploit two of the applications.

The exam was not as difficult as I was expecting. It was all about understanding how the application works by reverse engineering it, retrieving data from the application using the provided functionalities, and reconstructing another application by reversing the process. By “reversing,” I mean that in some phases, you will encounter different situations, such as encryption, where you will need to reverse the same process to decrypt the given data. In the exam, you will not be required to capture a flag or root any system. The requirement to pass the exam is to provide an application that can exploit those vulnerabilities automatically.

“The points to focus on are:”

Understanding how the application works through reverse engineering.Retrieving and analyzing data using the application’s provided functionalities.Decrypting data by reversing encryption processes.Reconstructing an application to exploit identified vulnerabilities.Automating the exploitation process in the final application.Understand Content Providers in Android and how they can be exploited

Your malicious application must be built and compiled to target Android devices with SDK version 24.

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Once you have create your malicious application (source code + .apk) , create a .tar.gz file and upload it in the members area. You have 7 days from the beginning of the certification process to upload it.

But now we have a problem. As you can see in the image, we are required to upload a file with a maximum size of 10MB. However, our project is larger than 10MB. What can we do to solve this issue?

ayklam it’s my egyption touch 🤪

As you can see, the size of your project is very large.

don’t worry i will tell you what to do

open ayklam folder go to app

open app folder go to build

open build folder go to intermediates

Delete it

go to outputs

go to apk

go to debug

Delete it

“As you can see, our project is now 2.80MB.”

“Now we need to put our (source code + .apk) in one folder.”

“Our project size is now 8.54MB, so it’s okay now.”

“Now we need to create a .tar.gz file.”

“We can do this with the following command on Kali Linux:”

tar -czvf exam.tar.gz ayklam

That’s it for today. I hope I helped anyone who needs this information

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