X Susceptibility and Exposure Security Ratings

Mobile App Exposure

Secure the Packaged Perimeter: Quantify Mobile App Exposure with Deterministic Certainty

Gain an independent, external audit of your mobile applications in the wild exactly as an adversary sees them and eliminate hardcoded secrets before they are weaponized against your enterprise.

Attain an objective, continuous A-F security rating derived entirely from connectorless, unauthenticated external discovery of compiled mobile packages.
Eliminate the "Hidden Tax on the SOC" by replacing chaotic manual reverse-engineering with irrefutable, evidence-backed threat narratives.
Map your digital exposures directly to critical regulatory mandates and established risk frameworks without subjective correlation.

The Business Reality: Eliminating the "Hidden Tax on the SOC"

Modern mobile applications are essentially packaged endpoints shipped directly to millions of unmanaged consumer devices, sitting completely outside the traditional corporate firewall. Legacy security approaches rely heavily on internal static or dynamic analysis (SAST/DAST), which requires access to source code. These tools inevitably miss credentials that slip into production, dropping a pile of uncontextualized alerts on the security operations center. This creates a crippling "Hidden Tax on the SOC" burning countless hours triaging theoretical vulnerabilities while security teams remain fundamentally blind to what attackers are actually decompiling in the wild.

ThreatNG introduces a disruptive, outside-in paradigm using deterministic external discovery. The platform requires no internal agents, API connectors, or source code access to deploy. Instead, ThreatNG analyzes mobile application packages in the wild to uncover actual, verifiable data exposures that are actively available to adversaries. Crucially, ThreatNG does not check against asset blacklists; we rely entirely on real-time discovery of your external mobile footprint to pinpoint exactly where your brand is most vulnerable.

Value and Return on Security Investment (ROSI)

Enterprise | Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)

Enterprise:

Risk Reduction & Defensible Regulatory Alignment

Operational Cost Avoidance: Devoting twenty hours a week to manually reverse-engineering application packages for embedded AWS keys and Firebase secrets effectively consumes half a full-time analyst's capacity. By automating this external discovery, ThreatNG eliminates this severe drain on your security resources and instantly reclaims valuable analyst time.
Evidence-Backed Remediation: ThreatNG does not route verified threats directly to asset owners; it generates questionnaires backed by the evidence collected by ThreatNG to seamlessly streamline internal and third-party remediation workflows.
Defensible Compliance: ThreatNG maps external risks directly to global regulatory requirements, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, DPDPA, NIST CSF, SEC mandates, and the Open FAIR framework.
Holistic Posture: To ensure comprehensive governance, our Lawsuits Investigation Module strictly discovers and reports on publicly disclosed lawsuits, while our ESG Exposure Rating strictly pulls from publicly disclosed ESG violations.

Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP):

Multi-Tenant Margin Protection & Rapid Onboarding

Protect Your Margins: To manually decompile applications and discover embedded Authorization Bearers, AWS API Keys, and exposed Admin Directories across 20 different enterprise tenants, an MSSP would need to hire multiple full-time analysts. ThreatNG allows you to scale an enterprise-grade mobile security service instantly, protecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in margin without linearly increasing your headcount.
Accelerated Time-to-Value: During an M&A technical due diligence phase, DarcRadar policy management offers pre-built policy templates to rapidly spin up tailored investigations into mobile risk vectors, shortening the new client onboarding cycle to mere seconds.

What We Analyze:

Connectorless External Discovery

ThreatNG continuously decompiles and analyzes mobile application packages in the wild to calculate your Mobile App Exposure score across the following critical data points:

Hardcoded Cloud & Infrastructure Credentials: Identifying exposed Amazon AWS Access Key IDs, AWS API Keys, Amazon AWS S3 Buckets, Google Cloud Platform OAuth/Service Accounts, and Heroku API Keys.
Authentication & Authorization Secrets: Finding embedded Authorization Bearers, Basic Auth Credentials, Artifactory API Tokens/Passwords, and Firebase secrets.
Third-Party & Social API Keys: Discovering embedded Facebook Access Tokens, Facebook Secret Keys, GitHub Access Tokens, Discord BOT Tokens, and Mailgun/MailChimp API Keys.
Exposed Endpoints & Routing: Tracking vulnerable APIs, Admin Directories, and hardcoded External Sites that the application communicates with.

Identified Credenials and Secrets: Admin Directories, Amazon AWS Access Key ID, Amazon AWS S3 Bucket, APIs, Artifactory API Token, Artifactory Password, Authorization Bearer, AWS API Key, Basic Auth Credentials, Cloudinary Basic Auth, DEFCON CTF Flag, Discord BOT Token, External Sites, Facebook Access Token, Facebook ClientID, Facebook OAuth, Facebook Secret Key, Firebase, GitHub, GitHub Access Token, Google API Key, Google Cloud Platform OAuth, Google Cloud Platform Service Account, Google OAuth Access Token, HackTheBox CTF Flag, Heroku API Key, Mac Address, MailChimp API Key, Mailgun API Key, Mailto, Password in URL, PayPal Braintree Access Token, PGP private key block, Picatic API Key, RSA Private Key, Slack Token, Slack Webhook, Square Access Token, Square OAuth Secret, SSH DSA Private Key, SSH EC Private Key, Stripe API Key, Stripe Restricted API Key, TryHackMe CTF Flag, Twilio API Key, Twitter Access Token, Twitter ClientID, Twitter OAuth, Twitter Secret Key, User or Account

Actionable Intelligence:

The DarChain Methodology

(External Attack Path Intelligence)

Executives evaluate risk through the lens of business liability, not raw telemetry. ThreatNG translates technical noise into actionable, executive-level intelligence using our DarChain External Attack Path Intelligence methodology. DarChain maps isolated technical exposures into predictive, multi-step attack paths.

For example, DarChain will vividly illustrate how an adversary can harvest an active AWS API Key or Discord BOT Token embedded in a mobile application, combine it with a vulnerable API endpoint, and exploit Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility to launch a devastating data breach. When these external threats involve malicious brand impersonation or rogue applications, ThreatNG uncovers and packages forensic evidence to set it up for a takedown service, ensuring you have the exact proof required to dismantle the adversary's operations.

Scoring & Customization:

Mold the Platform with DarcRadar

(Policy Management)

The Mobile App Exposure Rating is actively shaped by DarcRadar, our unified policy management hub. ThreatNG uses a transparent, penalty-based scoring formula to ensure ratings reflect actual, measurable risk rather than arbitrary algorithms.

Customizable Risk Configuration: Through Custom Multipliers, organizations can dial the severity of specific exposures up or down. If an organization expects a high volume of "External Sites" for a media app, the multiplier can be lowered. Conversely, they can aggressively increase the multiplier for "AWS API Keys" to ensure failing grades reflect material threats aligned with their specific risk tolerance.
Policy Exception Management: If an exposed API endpoint is a known, intentionally public resource that holds no sensitive data, DarcRadar allows teams to document and track this as an acceptable deviation. This suppresses the alert, reducing false positives and SOC fatigue while maintaining a clean, auditable trail that will not fail compliance checks.
Dynamic Entity Management: Granularly define the scope of automated discovery to target specific mobile applications, newly acquired brand portfolios, or partner applications, ensuring the scan is relentlessly focused on the most critical assets.

Take Control of Your Packaged Perimeter Today

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Frequently Asked Questions: ThreatNG Mobile App Exposure Rating

The Packaged Liability Crisis occurs when developers inadvertently compile hardcoded secrets—such as Amazon AWS Access Key IDs, Firebase configurations, or Discord BOT Tokens—directly into mobile application binaries. These apps are then distributed to millions of unmanaged user devices. This creates a massive, invisible attack surface where your most sensitive cloud credentials are left completely exposed on the public internet, paving the way for data leaks, ransomware, and severe regulatory fines under mandates like the DPDPA and SEC disclosure rules.
Internal security tools evaluate your architecture from the inside out and often rely on pre-production source code access. They cannot see your application as it exists "in the wild" once it is compiled, packaged, and distributed. Attackers do not need your source code; they simply download your live app from a store and decompile it in minutes. ThreatNG solves this by utilizing Unauthenticated Outside-In Discovery, analyzing your mobile footprint exactly from the attacker's perspective without requiring any internal agents, API keys, or network connectors.
Legacy External Attack Surface Management (EASM) tools generate a massive "Contextual Certainty Deficit" by dumping thousands of uncontextualized alerts (a "pile of bricks") onto your Security Operations Center (SOC). Your highly-paid Tier-2 analysts are then forced to manually hunt for false positives, acting as a hidden tax that drains your security budget and causes severe burnout. ThreatNG eliminates this noise using the DarChain (Digital Attack Risk Contextual Hyper-Analysis Insights Narrative) engine, which automatically translates raw technical findings into verified, predictive attack paths and delivers the exact Legal-Grade Attribution needed to immediately remediate the threat.
Yes. Threat actors frequently bypass corporate firewalls entirely by deploying Rogue Mobile Applications that impersonate your brand to distribute malware or steal customer credentials. Because these apps are often hosted on unvetted, third-party distribution platforms (such as APKPure, TutuApp, or Aptoide), internal IT teams are completely blind to them. ThreatNG continuously monitors both official channels (like the Apple App Store and Google Play) and high-risk third-party marketplaces to instantly uncover unauthorized brand impersonation and shadow IT.
Executives do not need a list of complex CVEs; they need absolute certainty regarding their corporate risk and compliance posture. ThreatNG translates the chaos of external mobile risk into a highly understandable, quantitative A-F grading system. Furthermore, utilizing the DarcRadar unified policy management hub, security leaders can customize risk configurations to perfectly match the organization's unique risk appetite. This provides CISOs and Risk Officers with the irrefutable evidence required to prove "reasonable security safeguards" to auditors, shielding leadership from personal liability.

Unveiling Your Organization's Mobile App Weaknesses: A Holistic View with ThreatNG Security Ratings

The ThreatNG Mobile App Exposure Score is a powerful capability, but it's just one piece of the puzzle within ThreatNG's comprehensive digital risk assessment suite. This suite goes beyond mobile app specific factors to offer a broader spectrum of Susceptibility and Exposure ratings that paint a holistic picture of your organization's digital security posture.

Here's why a comprehensive approach matters:

Interconnected Risks

Mobile app security issues can exacerbate other security vulnerabilities. For instance, a data breach caused by vulnerabilities in a mobile app could damage your brand reputation (Brand Damage Susceptibility) or expose your organization to ransomware (Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility). ThreatNG's suite helps identify and address these interconnected risks.

Strategic Decision-Making

Assessing various vulnerabilities across different categories gives you a more comprehensive understanding of your risk landscape. This allows you to prioritize resources and strategically decide where to invest for maximum impact.

Supply Chain Security

Today's businesses rely on complex ecosystems. ThreatNG's assessments extend beyond your organization, providing visibility into your vendors' and partners' security posture (Supply Chain and Third-Party Exposure). This empowers you to mitigate risks across your entire digital supply chain.

ThreatNG's Spectrum of Security Ratings:

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