frida-ipa-extract

[carlospolop]

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📝 Source Information

• Blog URL: https://github.com/lautarovculic/frida-ipa-extract
• Blog Title: frida-ipa-extract
• Suggested Section: 📱 Mobile Pentesting → iOS Pentesting → iOS Frida Configuration (or a new subpage like "Dumping/Extracting decrypted IPA (FairPlay) with Frida")

🎯 Content Summary

frida-ipa-extract is a robust Frida-based iOS reversing/security tool that extracts a decrypted iOS application as a portable .ipa from a jailbroken device. It was created after reliability issues with frida-ios-dump and targets modern workflows: App Store installs, sideloaded apps, and system apps.

Why this works (how iOS app encryption/decryption works at runtime)
Many App Store apps are stored on disk in an encrypted...

🔧 Technical Details

Runtime-decryption extraction via dynamic instrumentation: When an iOS app is stored encrypted on disk (DRM/FairPlay), its decrypted contents become accessible at runtime once the app is loaded. By spawning or attaching to the target process with Frida (via frida-server on a jailbroken device), you can access the runtime-decrypted state and repackage the retrieved bundle into a decrypted .ipa for offline analysis.

Stability tactic for anti-instrumentation/jailbreak detection: If attaching causes timeouts or crashes, prefer spawning with -f and keep the process suspended using --no-resume. This reduces the window where anti-Frida/anti-jailbreak checks execute while still allowing controlled extraction attempts.

Performance/reliability improvement by separating instrumentation from transfer: Use SSH mode to SFTP files and optionally tunnel to frida-server port 27042. If both ...

🤖 Agent Actions

Updated basic-ios-testing-operations.md with a new section on frida-ipa-extract covering requirements, setup, usage, transport modes, stability flags, and troubleshooting for dumping decrypted IPAs via Frida with SSH/SFTP support. Added the tool’s repository to the references.

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🔗 Additional Context

Original Blog Post: https://github.com/lautarovculic/frida-ipa-extract

Content Categories: Based on the analysis, this content was categorized under "📱 Mobile Pentesting → iOS Pentesting → iOS Frida Configuration (or a new subpage like "Dumping/Extracting decrypted IPA (FairPlay) with Frida")".

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