Discovering the iOS Instruments Server

Presented at REcon 2018, June 16, 2018, 11 a.m. (30 minutes).

This presentation documents how I was able to reverse-engineer a privileged server running on iOS that is responsible for providing highly sensitive information to Apple's debugging tools.

Presenters:

• Troy Bowman
  * Software Engineer at Hex-Rays SA (2013-present) * Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Arizona (2008-2013) * Primary focus: developing, debugging, and decompiling OSX/iOS applications * Primary contributor to the following features of IDA Pro: o iOS Debugger o OSX Debugger o Mach-O Loader o Objective-C Plugin

Links:

• https://recon.cx/2018/montreal/schedule/events/110.html

Tags:

• iOS

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