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Start to Finish: Configuring an Android Phone for Pentesting

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Feed Name: Black Hills Infosec Blog

Date Published: 2023-01-25

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: BHIS

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This is a practical how-to guide (October 2022) showing how to set up a Pixel 4a running Android 12 for mobile pentesting: enabling developer options, unlocking the bootloader, patching and flashing a Magisk-rooted boot image, installing a Burp CA as a trusted certificate via a Magisk module, configuring adb reverse proxying, and deploying Frida and Runtime Mobile Security to bypass certificate pinning for dynamic analysis.

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