How to Protect Mobile Apps With Appdome Signed Payload Using AI

Last updated August 14, 2025 by Appdome

This Knowledge Base article describes how to use Appdome’s AI in your CI/CD pipeline to continuously deliver plugins that Use Appdome Signed Payload in Mobile apps.

What is Appdome Signed Payload?

Appdome Signed Payload is a security feature in Session Risk that verifies the authenticity and integrity of session data by enforcing a digital signature on each payload before the connection is allowed. In mobile apps, attackers often tamper with session headers, inject malicious values, or replay traffic to impersonate trusted sessions and bypass security controls. Without digital signature validation, backend systems and WAFs cannot verify whether the payload originated from a genuine, untampered mobile app or session. Appdome Signed Payload ensures that all session headers are cryptographically signed, making unauthorized modification or forgery impractical. This allows downstream systems to trust only payloads signed by the protected app and ignore spoofed or manipulated traffic. This feature strengthens API security and supports enforcement of strict anti-fraud and data integrity policies in mobile environments.

How Appdome Protects Mobile Apps With Appdome Signed Payload

Appdome’s dynamic AI plugin for Appdome Signed Payload cryptographically signs the session header payload in Android/iOS apps and validates that signature before connections are established. This ensures the payload has not been tampered with and originated from the protected app. Backend systems and WAFs can use this trusted signature to block forged or manipulated requests.

Prerequisites for Using Appdome's Appdome Signed Payload Plugins:

To use Appdome’s mobile app security build system to Use Appdome Signed Payload , you’ll need:

How to Implement Use Appdome Signed Payload in Mobile Apps Using Appdome

On Appdome, follow these simple steps to create self-defending Mobile Apps that Use Appdome Signed Payload without an SDK or gateway:

  1. Designate the Mobile App to be protected.

    1. Upload an app via the Appdome Mobile Defense platform GUI or via Appdome’s DEV-API or CI/CD Plugins.

    2. Mobile App Formats: .ipa for iOS, or .apk or .aab for Android
    3. Appdome Signed Payload is compatible with: Obj-C, Java, JS, C#, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Xamarin, and more.
  2. Select the defense: Appdome Signed Payload.

      1. Create and name the Fusion Set (security template) that will contain the Appdome Signed Payload feature as shown below:
        fusion set that contains Appdome Signed Payload

        Figure 1: Fusion Set that will contain the Appdome Signed Payload feature

      2. Follow the steps in Sections 2.2-2.2.2 of this article to add the Appdome Signed Payload feature to your Fusion Set via the Appdome Console.

      3. When you enable Session Risk you'll notice that the Fusion Set you created in step 2.1 now bears the icon of the protection category that contains Appdome Signed Payload.

        Fusion Set applied Appdome Signed Payload

        Figure 2: Fusion Set that displays the newly added Appdome Signed Payload protection
        Note: Annotating the Fusion Set to identify the protection(s) selected is optional only (not mandatory).

      4. Open the Fusion Set Detail Summary by clicking the “...” symbol on the far-right corner of the Fusion Set. Copy the Fusion Set ID from the Fusion Set Detail Summary (as shown below): fusion Set Detail Summary image

        Figure 3: Fusion Set Detail Summary

      5. Follow the instructions below to use the Fusion Set ID inside any standard mobile DevOps or CI/CD toolkit like Bitrise, Jenkins, Travis, Team City, Circle CI or other system:
        1. Refer to the Appdome API Reference Guide for API building instructions.
        2. Look for sample APIs in Appdome’s GitHub Repository.
    1. Add the Appdome Signed Payload feature to your security template.

      1. Navigate to Build > Anti Bot tab > MobileBOT™ Defense section in the Appdome Console.
      2. Toggle On Session Risk > Appdome Signed Payload.
        Note: The checkmark feature Appdome Signed Payload is enabled by default, as shown below. Appdome Signed Payload option

        Figure 4: Selecting Use Appdome Signed Payload

        Note: The Appdome Platform displays the Mobile Operation Systems supported by each defense in real-time. For more details, see our OS Support Policy KB.

      3. Configure the User Experience Options for Appdome Signed Payload:
        With Threat-Events™ OFF, Appdome provides several user experience options for mobile brands and developers.
        1. App Compromise Notification: Customize the pop-up or toast Appdome uses to notify the user when a threat is present while using the protected mobile app.
        2. Short message Option. This is available for mobile devices that allow a banner notification for security events.
        3. Localized Message Option. Allows Appdome users to support global languages in security notifications.

          Localized Message

          Figure 5: Default User Experience Options for Appdome’s Appdome Signed Payload

        4. Appdome Signed Payload Threat Code™. Appdome uses AI to generate a unique code each time Appdome Signed Payload is triggered by an active threat on the mobile device. Use the code in Appdome Threat Resolution Center™ to help end users identify, find and resolve active threats on the personal mobile devices.
    2. Initiate the build command either by clicking Build My App at the bottom of the Build Workflow (shown in Figure 4) or via your CI/CD as described in Section 2.1.4.
    Congratulations!  The Appdome Signed Payload protection is now added to the mobile app
  3. Certify the Appdome Signed Payload feature in Mobile Apps

    After building Appdome Signed Payload, Appdome generates a Certified Secure™ certificate to guarantee that the Appdome Signed Payload protection has been added and is protecting the app. To verify that the Appdome Signed Payload protection has been added to the mobile app, locate the protection in the Certified Secure™ certificate as shown below: Appdome Signed Payload shown in Certificate secure

    Figure 6: Certified Secure™ certificate

    Each Certified Secure™ certificate provides DevOps and DevSecOps organizations the entire workflow summary, audit trail of each build, and proof of protection that Appdome Signed Payload has been added to each Mobile app. Certified Secure provides instant and in-line DevSecOps compliance certification that Appdome Signed Payload and other mobile app security features are in each build of the mobile app.

Using Threat-Events™ for Appdome Signed Payload Intelligence and Control in Mobile Apps

Appdome Threat-Events™ provides consumable in-app mobile app attack intelligence and defense control when Appdome Signed Payload is detected. To consume and use Threat-Events™ for Appdome Signed Payload in Mobile Apps, use AddObserverForName in Notification Center, and the code samples for Threat-Events™ for Appdome Signed Payload shown below.

The specifications and options for Threat-Events™ for Appdome Signed Payload are:

Threat-Event™ Elements Use Appdome Signed Payload Method Detail
Appdome Feature Name Appdome Signed Payload
Threat-Event Mode
OFF, IN-APP DEFENSE Appdome detects, defends and notifies user (standard OS dialog) using customizable messaging.
ON, IN-APP DETECTION Appdome detects the attack or threat and passes the event in a standard format to the app for processing (app chooses how and when to enforce).
ON, IN-APP DEFENSE Uses Appdome Enforce mode for any attack or threat and passes the event in a standard format to the app for processing (gather intel on attacks and threats without losing any protection).
Certified Secure™ Threat Event Check x
Visible in ThreatScope™ x
Developer Parameters for Using Appdome Signed Payload Threat-Event™
Threat-Event NAME
Threat-Event DATA reasonData
Threat-Event CODE reasonCode
Threat-Event SCORE
currentThreatEventScore Current Threat-Event score
threatEventsScore Total Threat-events score
Threat-Event Context Keys
Timestamp The exact time the threat event was triggered, recorded in milliseconds since epoch
message Message displayed for the user on event
externalID The external ID of the event which can be listened via Threat Events
osVersion OS version of the current device
deviceModel Current device model
deviceManufacturer The manufacturer of the current device
fusedAppToken The task ID of the Appdome fusion of the currently running app
kernelInfo Info about the kernel: system name, node name, release, version and machine.
carrierPlmn PLMN of the device. Only available for Android devices.
deviceID Current device ID
reasonCode Reason code of the occurred event
deviceBrand Brand of the device
deviceBoard Board of the device
buildUser Build user
buildHost Build host
sdkVersion Sdk version
threatCode The last six characters of the threat code specify the OS, allowing the Threat Resolution Center to address the attack on the affected device.

With Threat-Events™ enabled (turned ON), Mobile developers can get detailed attack intelligence and granular defense control in Mobile applications and create amazing user experiences for all mobile end users when Appdome Signed Payload is detected.


The following is a code sample for native Mobile apps, which uses all values in the specification above for Appdome Signed Payload:


Important! Replace all placeholder instances of <Context Key> with the specific name of your threat event context key across all language examples. This is crucial to ensure your code functions correctly with the intended event data. For example, The <Context Key> could be the message, externalID, OS Version, reason code, etc.



Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites to build secured Mobile Apps by using Appdome Signed Payload. There is no SDK and no library to code or implement in the app and no gateway to deploy in your network. All protections are built into each app and the resulting app is self-defending and self-protecting.

Releasing and Publishing Mobile Apps with Appdome Signed Payload

After successfully securing your app by using Appdome, there are several available options to complete your project, depending on your app lifecycle or workflow. These include:

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