Offensive Mobile Security Expert (OMSE)

8KSec’s flagship Offensive Mobile Reversing and Exploitation training is the definitive program for cybersecurity professionals who want to master advanced mobile security domains, userland and kernel internals, and system-level vulnerability research. This advanced course provides the elite, deeply practical knowledge required to conduct comprehensive security audits across both iOS and Android platforms. Offered globally via flexible live virtual, live on-site, and on-demand formats, our authorized partnership program ensures your team gains the critical expertise to analyze low-level mobile architectures, build custom Frida instrumentation frameworks, and unpack highly fortified binaries.

Who Should Attend?

This course is built strictly for intermediate to advanced technical practitioners who need to analyze mobile operating system layers and native execution blocks. The Offensive Mobile Reversing and Exploitation training is ideal for:

• Senior Penetration Testers and Security Consultants
• Vulnerability Researchers and Reverse Engineers
• Mobile Security Architects and Product Engineers
• Anyone preparing to achieve the elite Offensive Mobile Security Expert (OMSE) practical credential

If your role demands that you understand low-level mobile bug classes, bypass hardware-backed platform mitigations, or dissect kernel-level communication hooks, this course is crucial for your professional development.

OMSE Certification & Advanced Career Opportunities

This masterclass thoroughly prepares you for the official Offensive Mobile Security Expert (OMSE) certification exam—a 100% hands-on, 48-hour practical assessment that challenges you to solve real-world offensive mobile research scenarios. Validating your capabilities with this milestone unlocks premium industry positions, including:

• Mobile Vulnerability Researcher
• Senior AppSec and Platform Engineer
• Kernel Security Specialist
• Lead Offensive Security Engineer

With an absolute zero multiple-choice format, the practical OMSE designation proves undeniably to defense sectors, global technology enterprises, and elite security agencies that you possess concrete system-level research skills.

Why Choose Our Partnered Training?

We deliver rigorous, research-oriented training methodologies built on active vulnerability discovery and low-level architectural dissection. Here is why our 8KSec training framework stands out:

• Flexible Learning Paths: Access your training your way—choose interactive live virtual classes (via Zoom), structured live on-site enterprise bootcamps, or utilize immediate on-demand self-paced tracks with a full year of lab and material access.
• Virtualized Cloud Laboratories: Eliminate hardware friction entirely. Attendees run sophisticated test chains using Corellium—the cloud virtualization environment providing high-fidelity virtualized iOS and Android platforms without physical hardware dependencies.
• Conference-Proven Domain Experts: Learn directly from veteran practitioners with over ten years of experience delivering advanced research talks and training sessions at top-tier security events like Black Hat, HITB, Zer0con, and OWASP AppSec.
• Deep Adaptability: For live deliveries, we can fully customize the content—balancing iOS vs. Android emphasis, weighting specific kernel topics, or adapting lab modules to align with your organization's precise threat model.

Course Prerequisites

To successfully complete the Offensive Mobile Reversing and Exploitation course and navigate the advanced lab frameworks, attendees should possess:

• General Cybersecurity Fundamentals: A solid working knowledge of cybersecurity and core penetration testing fundamentals.
• Platform & Shell Literacy: A basic working knowledge of iOS and Android platforms alongside standard Linux skills and command-line proficiency.
• Programming Foundations: A clear understanding of fundamental programming concepts and looping structures in at least one higher-level language (such as Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, C, or C++).

Note: Prior exposure to low-level ARM/AARCH64 binary assembly and exploitation concepts is highly recommended to accelerate your progress through the advanced modules, but it is not strictly required as an ARM64 primer is included.

Offensive Mobile Reversing and Exploitation Course Outline

This comprehensive, 4-day technical curriculum covers advanced userland and kernel testing methodologies through 15 highly specialized modules:

1. Module 1: Introduction to Reverse Engineering in iOS and Android
   • Key reversing concepts and terminologies; step-by-step introduction to Hopper and Ghidra; mastering the ARM64 instruction set, registers, calling conventions, and architecture mitigations; introduction to Objective-C, Swift, Java, and Kotlin; exploiting a simple Heap Overflow, building a ROP chain, and breaking ASLR with info leaks.
2. Module 2: Getting Started with iOS Security
   • The iOS security model, sandboxing boundaries, application code signing, provisioning profiles, and App Groups; introductory overview of iOS 17–18 security; Xcode tools, Address Sanitizer, and filesystem properties; rootless jailbreak mechanics, bootstraps, sideloading, and binary decryption.
3. Module 3: iOS Kernel Internals
   • Deep dive into the XNU kernel architecture, the Mach layer, BSD subsystems, and IOKit frameworks; extracting kernelcaches and kernel extensions (kexts); analyzing AMFI, CoreTrust, and Sandbox profiles; entitlement validation, kernel panic logs, and advanced mitigations (PAC, PPL, PAN, SPTM, TXM, GXL); patch diffing XNU updates.
4. Module 4: Frida In-Depth
   • Comprehensive exploration of Frida's core capabilities; initializing lab infrastructure and writing fundamental hooks; using frida-trace and managing handlers; custom scripting against Swift apps and native code; memory inspection, tampering, and invoking arbitrary runtime functions.
5. Module 5: iOS Application Vulnerabilities
   • Tracing cryptographic implementations at runtime; side-channel data leakage, local storage privacy, and info disclosure; implementing custom bypasses for certificate pinning, certificate transparency, and jailbreak detection matrices; exploiting UI/WKWebViews, URL schemes, and Universal Links.
6. Module 6: iOS Vulnerabilities
   • Advanced technical case studies detailing complex sandbox escapes; analyzing historical errors in entitlement validation; tracking XPC-related vulnerabilities, real kernel-level vulnerability parameters, and confirmed PAC bypass techniques.
7. Module 7: iOS Malware Reversing
   • Understanding the mechanical stages of modern mobile spyware and implants; advanced mobile forensics and device acquisition techniques; constructing and parsing custom Indicators of Compromise (IOCs); technical case studies of high-profile public iOS malware.
8. Module 8: Securing iOS尊Ecosystem
   • Deploying hardware-backed defenses via AppAttest and DeviceCheck; fingerprinting devices and blocking GPS spoofing; code obfuscation and transport layer protections; implementing advanced anti-debugging, pasteboard security, and anti-proxy constraints; analyzing iOS Lockdown Mode.
9. Module 9: Intro to Android Security
   • The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) security architecture and file system layers; extracting and inspecting production APK structures; application signing requirements; advanced usage of the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) across rooted and non-rooted device profiles; mapping component-level permission flaws.
10. Module 10: Android Components
    • Exhaustive technical review of fundamental Android app components (Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers, Content Providers); establishing an enterprise-grade Android pentesting architecture using advanced Android emulators and AVD configurations.
11. Module 11: Reversing Android Apps
    • Android compilation and asset engineering pipelines; Smali assembly learning labs, syntax rules, and decompilation; reversing deeply obfuscated bytecodes; exploiting accessibility service permissions; writing persistent binary app patches and analysis of real-world malware evasion mechanisms.
12. Module 12: Static and Dynamic Analysis
    • Intercepting network traffic and analyzing backend APIs; attacking local storages, insecure crypto, and side-channel data leaks; exploiting Content Provider path traversals; bypassing Proguard/DexGuard obfuscation; hacking native NDK layers and mobile game binaries; testing Firebase, AWS Cognito, and biometric authentication flaws.
13. Module 13: Frida and Automated Exploitation
    • Automating cryptographic analysis with Frida scripts; rapid class mapping and tracing method calls; dynamically viewing and modifying memory states; triggering arbitrary internal functions; intercepting native library routines; packaging Frida agents into non-rooted APK targets.
14. Module 14: Securing Android Apps
    • Implementing application-level remediation; coding runtime integrity verifications, anti-emulation routines, and root detection blocks; implementing safe WebView contexts, anti-debugging structures, and anti-proxy rules.
15. Module 15: Android Kernel
    • The Android boot process, image layout, and bootloader flows; extracting and decrypting boot images; symbolicating the Android kernel for vulnerability research; debugging kernel binaries; local privilege escalation paths; in-depth look at Discretionary Access Control (DAC), capabilities (CAP), SECCOMP, and SELinux.

Enroll Today

The 8KSec Offensive Mobile Reversing and Exploitation course is your ultimate vehicle to mastering low-level platform research and system exploitation. By shifting from standard app security checklists to deep userland and kernel-level analysis, this training delivers the formidable expertise needed to navigate next-generation edge threats. Equip your engineering team with world-class research skills, dominate ARM64 internals, and achieve your OMSE certification—enroll today!