MASTG-TECH-0087: Native Code Tracing

As discussed earlier in this chapter, iOS applications can also contain native code (C/C++ code) and it can be traced using the frida-trace CLI as well. For example, you can trace calls to the open function by running the following command:

frida-trace -U -i "open" sg.vp.UnCrackable1

The overall approach and further improvisation for tracing native code using Frida is similar to the one discussed in Native Code Tracing.

Unfortunately, there are no tools such as strace or ftrace available to trace syscalls or function calls of an iOS app. Only DTrace exists, which is a very powerful and versatile tracing tool, but it's only available for MacOS and not for iOS.