AppStore.app

Introduction

AppStore.app is the application Apple has added to iPhone & iPhone3G 2.x firmwares for distributing applications made using Apple's iPhone SDK. The following is just some initial information gathered by mxweas

Findings

Initialization of AppStore

GET http://phobos.apple.com:80/bag.xml?ix=2
User-Agent: iTunes-iphone/2.0
X-Apple-Connection-Type: WiFi
X-Apple-Store-Front: 143441-1,2
->302 Moved Temporarily - http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/initiateSession?ix=2

GET http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net:80/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/initiateSession?ix=2
User-Agent: iTunes-iphone/2.0
X-Apple-Connection-Type: WiFi
X-Apple-Store-Front: 143441-1,2
->?

Your Name

1. Take the application icon and drag it from iTunes to your desktop
2. It will be an ipa file. Unzip it.
3. Open Payload/<application>.app/SC_Info/<application>.sinf in a hex editor

Do the above and look at offset 0x0c0. You will see your name, or the name of the person who crappily cracked your application :P