For analysis, you can use Wireshark to read this file. If you are testing on an android version greater than 7.0 you are going to need to tamper with an apk a little, since google changed network security policy and made it “harder” for us to play.īasically what we need to do is to modify the application to accept any self-signed CA so we can intercept and decrypt the traffic.įor this example, I’m going to use ‘twitter’ android app. It is a command line tool that will capture the traffic and save it in a file. It works by creating a VPN connection and capturing all the traffic going through that connection and redirecting it to the wireshark where we can analyze it in real-time. How does it work you ask? We are going to use a fantastic app, provided by Andrey Egorov( pcap remote.

The goal of this post is to teach you how to capture any network traffic on your android device (no root required). Or you have been dealing with custom protocol instead of good ol’ HTTP.

So you are performing a pentest on an android app and you have got into a situation where basic certificate pinning bypass doesn’t work. Ex Android Dev About Capture all android network traffic

Wireshark capture localhost traffic