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I am Prateek Gianchandani. I have interests in Reverse Engineering, Mobile and Browser Security, and i am the founder of 8ksec. I hope you enjoy the content in this Blog.

How to distribute IPA file for jailbroken devices

So i have been getting a few queries on how to create an IPA file from Xcode and distribute it for jailbroken devices. Here is how i did it for Damn Vulnerable iOS App. First we need to run the application using Xcode on the device. This requires a valid provisioning profile. I am doing this on Xcode 5.x but on the previous versions of Xcode, it was possible to run the application on the device without a valid provisioning profile. Once the application is installed on the device, copy the .app folder from the device on your system. 2 Navigate inside this directory on your system and self sign the application binary using ldid. Make sure you have a proper working version of ldid installed. 2 Now create a new folder and name it Payload. Put the .app folder inside it and compress the Payload folder. It will be named Payload.zip. Rename Payload.zip to [APP_NAME].ipa, for e.g DamnVulnerableiOSApp.ipa. Once this is done, you can install the application using similar techniques as mentioned in the youtube video below.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PwES8Sk00wk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

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