While performing a gray-box assessment, you have SSH access to a jailbroken iPhone running iOS 15.4. Your goal is to obtain a fully decrypted copy of the target enterprise application's IPA so you can inspect embedded API keys offline. Which utility is specifically designed to attach to the running process and dump a decrypted IPA directly on the device?
Run idevicebackup2 with the --full flag to create a decrypted backup of the application.
Install Burp Suite Mobile Assistant and capture the application traffic while it launches.
Pipe the application binary over netcat and reconstruct it on your workstation.
Use frida-ios-dump's dump.py script to hook the app and generate a decrypted IPA.
The frida-ios-dump script (dump.py) leverages the Frida dynamic instrumentation framework to hook the running application, read the decrypted Mach-O segments from memory, and automatically re-package them into a usable IPA on the device. The idevicebackup2 utility only creates logical backups and preserves the original encrypted binaries, so it cannot provide a decrypted executable. Burp Suite Mobile Assistant focuses on installing a proxy certificate and routing traffic through Burp; it does not interact with application code or memory. Netcat can transfer files or provide remote shells but offers no functionality for decrypting or packaging iOS applications. Therefore, frida-ios-dump is the correct choice for this task.
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