Mobile App Hardening Demo | SecIron

The threat

Banking trojans are now the dominant category of mobile malware.

53%of detected mobile malware in Q1 2026 was a banking trojan

162,000distinct banking trojan installation packages found in that quarter alone

5 of 6routes onto your customer’s phone are outside your control

Source: Kaspersky Securelist mobile threat statistics, Q1 2026

The gap

Your controls are working. They are just not looking at the device.

On-device fraud runs inside a session your systems correctly authenticated. It carries the right device, the right address, the right app instance and a legitimate login. Every signal your fraud stack reads is genuine.

API GATEWAY & WAF

The request is well formed and correctly authenticated

Nothing in it is anomalous, because nothing about it is fake.

FRAUD & RISK ENGINES

Device, location and session signals are all genuine

Behavioural models catch some automation patterns, but not reliably.

MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

One-time codes are intercepted and their notifications suppressed

Push approvals are tapped by malicious accessibility automation.

A real campaign

Approved by the store. Activated six weeks later.

A dropper carrying the Anatsa banking trojan was published on Google Play as a document viewer utility. It passed review, climbed to fourth place in its category, and only then fetched its payload.

The app that passes review is not the app that attacks your customer.

Week 0Benign utility passes app store review

Week 1–5Reaches 90,000 downloads, ranks fourth in category

Week 6Payload fetched, overlays deployed against banking apps

AfterDiscovered in post-incident review, not in real time

The defence

Six layers of mobile app hardening, built into the app itself

Your app runs on devices you do not own, cannot patch and cannot scan. Hardening keeps it working safely on the assumption that the device may already be compromised.

Anti-tampering and anti-repackaging

Detects when the app has been modified, cloned or redistributed, and stops the altered version running.

Root, jailbreak and emulator detection

Identifies compromised runtime environments where your protections could otherwise be stripped away.

Anti-hooking and anti-debugging

Blocks instrumentation frameworks used to read memory, intercept calls and rewrite behaviour at runtime.

Overlay and accessibility abuse detection

Catches fake screens drawn over your app and malicious accessibility services reading what your users type.

Code obfuscation and secure storage

Makes decompiled code far harder to read, and keeps sensitive data encrypted on the device.

Real-time monitoring and response

Every detection logged the second it happens, across the whole portfolio, with response policy set by you.

Why SecIron

Sixteen years on one problem

16years in mobile application security

10,000+mobile apps hardened

70+Global Fortune 500 customers

ISO 27001certified information security

Security should not cost usability

Every organisation should get the most from its mobile applications without trading away the customer experience to do it.

Built for the region we operate in

Founded in Malaysia in 2010. Asian regulators, Asian threat patterns, and a team that answers in your time zone.

Claims you can verify

Everything we say about detection and performance is demonstrable in a proof of concept, not just on a datasheet.

The platform

Assessment, hardening and monitoring

Scans mobile apps for vulnerabilities, exposed secrets and risky third-party libraries before release.View IronSCAN

Applies five layers of mobile app hardening to the built app, with no source-code changes and no SDK work.View IronWALL

Monitoring and response. Every detection logged the second it happens, exportable for audit.View IronSKY

Before you decide

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Guide

What is mobile app hardening? A complete guide for security teams

The five layers, how it deploys, and the three questions to ask any vendor before you shortlist.

Read the article

Comparison

Mobile app hardening vs RASP vs app shielding

Three terms used interchangeably by vendors. Here is where each one actually stops.

Read the comparison

Technical

What hackers see when they decompile your app

Your API surface, secrets, business logic and security checks, and what hardening hides.