ios-pentesting-tricks

ios-pentesting-tricks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (3,639 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security testing guide for iOS applications, Apple’s mobile apps, covering both jailbroken devices and ordinary devices. It includes checks for stored data, links, runtime behavior, and app protections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine keychain data, URL schemes and Universal Links, runtime hooks, binary protections, storage, and SSL-pinning-related testing paths.
Why use it?
It helps testers account for the different access and inspection methods available on jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

HackSkills is an organized knowledge base of installable skills that gives AI agents practical security knowledge across areas such as web security, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics. It is intended for bug bounty work, penetration testing, CTF competitions, and authorized security research. The catalogue entries are the project's own master, category, and topic skills.

yaklang/hack-skills · 2,064 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/ios-pentesting-tricks
Any agent
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill ios-pentesting-tricks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.03639
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01819
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00728
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00364

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4c13a666f319, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ios-pentesting-tricks scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://target.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association" | jq .
Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/ios-pentesting-tricks/SKILL.md · 419 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 419 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: iOS Pentesting Tricks — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert iOS application security testing techniques. Covers jailbreak vs non-jailbreak methodology, keychain extraction, URL scheme/Universal Links abuse, Frida/Objection runtime hooks, binary protection checks, and data storage analysis. Base models miss protection class nuances and AASA misconfiguration patterns.

Before going deep, consider loading:

Advanced Reference

Also load IOS_RUNTIME_TRICKS.md when you need:

  • Frida recipes for iOS-specific hooks (ObjC class enumeration, method swizzling)
  • Objection command reference for iOS
  • Runtime hooking patterns and bypass templates

1. JAILBREAK VS NON-JAILBREAK TESTING

Capability Jailbroken Non-Jailbroken
SSL pinning bypass Frida, SSL Kill Switch 2, Objection Network debugging proxy, MITM profiles (limited)
Keychain access keychain-dumper, Frida dump Only via backup extraction (limited)
Filesystem inspection Full access to app sandbox Only via ideviceinstaller + backup
Runtime manipulation Frida, Cycript, LLDB attach Frida on sideloaded apps (re-signed)
Binary analysis Class-dump, Hopper on-device Decrypt IPA on Mac, analyze offline
Method hooking Full Frida/Cycript capability Limited (needs re-signed app + Frida gadget)

Non-Jailbreak Testing Setup

# Extract IPA from device
ideviceinstaller -l                    # List installed apps
ios-deploy --id <UDID> --download --bundle_id com.target.app

# Or use frida-ios-dump for decrypted IPA (jailbroken)
python dump.py com.target.app

# Sideload with Frida gadget (non-jailbreak runtime hooking)
# 1. Extract IPA, 2. Insert FridaGadget.dylib into Frameworks/
# 3. Re-sign with valid profile, 4. Install via ios-deploy

Read the full file on GitHub · 419 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 419 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 4c13a666f319

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ios-pentesting-tricks is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,064 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 3,639 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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