How to Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest in Mobile Apps 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 Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest in Mobile apps.

What is Bot Config at-Rest Attack?

In mobile apps, attackers frequently target configuration files at rest using reverse engineering, file system access, or backup extraction techniques to harvest sensitive details about the bot detection logic, endpoints, and encryption secrets. This data can be used by attackers or malware to impersonate or masquerade as a legitimate app, tamper with security workflows, or launch automated fraud campaigns.

Encrypting this configuration ensures the defense logic itself remains protected and avoids leakage of backend details critical to session validation.

How Appdome Protects Against Bot Config at-Rest

Appdome’s dynamic Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest plugin for Android/iOS apps uses AES-256 encryption to secure Mobile Anti-Bot configuration files, including hostnames, keys, and certificates, from offline inspection and harvesting. This ensures that even if an attacker gains filesystem access, the bot detection parameters remain inaccessible. The plugin operates automatically at runtime, encrypting all protected resources before they are written to disk, eliminating the need for developer-side key management or code changes. This feature provides continuous protection with no developer work, using Appdome’s AI-delivered plugin in CI/CD.

Prerequisites for Using Appdome's Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest Plugins:

To use Appdome’s mobile app security build system to Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest , you’ll need:

How to Implement Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest in Mobile Apps Using Appdome

On Appdome, follow these simple steps to create self-defending Mobile Apps that Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest 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. Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest is compatible with: Obj-C, Java, JS, C#, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Xamarin, and more.
  2. Select the defense: Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest.

      1. Create and name the Fusion Set (security template) that will contain the Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest feature as shown below:
        fusion set that contains Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest

        Figure 1: Fusion Set that will contain the Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest feature

      2. Follow the steps in Sections 2.2-2.2.2 of this article to add the Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest feature to your Fusion Set via the Appdome Console.

      3. When you enable Rate-Limit Connections / mTLS Pre-Authentication / Session Risk / Pin to Host you'll notice that the Fusion Set you created in step 2.1 now bears the icon of the protection category that contains Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest.

        Fusion Set applied Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest

        Figure 2: Fusion Set that displays the newly added Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest 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 Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest feature to your security template.

      1. Navigate to Build > Anti Bot tab > MobileBOT™ Defense section in the Appdome Console.
      2. Toggle On Rate-Limit Connections / mTLS Pre-Authentication / Session Risk / Pin to Host > Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest.
        Note: The checkmark feature Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest is enabled by default, as shown below. Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest option

        Figure 4: Selecting Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest

    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 Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest protection is now added to the mobile app
  3. Certify the Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest feature in Mobile Apps

    After building Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest, Appdome generates a Certified Secure™ certificate to guarantee that the Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest protection has been added and is protecting the app. To verify that the Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest protection has been added to the mobile app, locate the protection in the Certified Secure™ certificate as shown below: Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest shown in Certificate secure

    Figure 5: 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 Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest has been added to each Mobile app. Certified Secure provides instant and in-line DevSecOps compliance certification that Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest and other mobile app security features are in each build of the mobile app.

Using Threat-Events™ for Anti-Bot Config at-Rest Intelligence and Control in Mobile Apps

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

The specifications and options for Threat-Events™ for Anti-Bot Config at-Rest are:

Threat-Event™ Elements Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest Method Detail
Appdome Feature Name Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest
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 Protecting Anti-Bot Config at-Rest 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 Anti-Bot Config at-Rest is detected.


The following is a code sample for native Mobile apps, which uses all values in the specification above for Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest:


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 Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest. 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 Protect Anti-Bot Config at-Rest

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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