How To Detect & Block Malicious Proxies in Android & iOS Apps

Learn How to Detect & Block Malicious Proxies in Android & iOS Apps

This Knowledge Base article provides step by step instructions on using Appdome to protect against malicious proxies for any Android and iOS apps – without any coding.

We hope you find it useful and enjoy using Appdome!

What is a Malicious Proxy and How is it Used?

Protecting mobile apps against malicious proxies is a critical cyber-defense strategy. Malicious proxies are often used in mobile MiTM attacks. Hackers target insecure networks and wifi connections and hijack the connection between a mobile app and the server that it’s trying to connect to. They then redirect the session to malicious proxies so they can harvest data, steal credentials, deposit malware, etc.

Blocking Malicious Proxies Using Appdome

Appdome is a no-code mobile app security platform designed to add security features, like malicious proxy protection. This KB shows mobile developers, DevSec and security professionals how to use Appdome’s simple ‘click to build’ user interface to quickly and easily protect mobile data in transit. Appdome’s Trusted Session solution is a part of the Appdome Mobile Security Suite. Trusted Session contains a feature called “Malicious Proxy Prevention”. When an app is protected with Malicious Proxy Protection, all mobile sessions, connections, and certificates are inspected and validated, to ensure that the connection between the app and server can be trusted at all times. Appdome’s Malicious Proxy Protection works by detecting if a session is intercepted by an unauthorized or unknown party and redirected to a proxy. This feature, alone or in combination with others, is a great way to detect and prevent Man-in-the-Middle attacks and other session hijacking techniques.

You can also combine multiple features or services in a single build, and integrate them all to your app in minutes. For example, you can combine Data at Rest (DAR) encryption, MitM attack prevention, and malicious proxy prevention (among countless other combinations) for a layered security defense.

Alan Bavosa