Observing Application Behavior via API Interception

Learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the 5 most common API interception techniques

In this guide you will learn more about:

  • Inline hooking
  • Callbacks
  • Import table rewriting
  • Method rewriting
  • Web API intercept
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There are many ways to perform API interception. This whitepaper outlines the most common techniques, including:

  • Inline hooking
  • Callbacks
  • Import table rewriting
  • Method rewriting
  • Web API Intercept

and details strengths and weaknesses of each approach. This paper also reviews how Deepfactor, a developer security platform, has used API interception for the purposes of providing engineering teams with contextual application security insights.

 

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