Knight Squad Academy Public credential record
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Credential awarded to

Ahmad Al-Mazary

Certified Mobile App Penetration Testing Apprentice

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Credential details

Certificate ID
KSA-KGZX33YC0109
Issued on
September 1, 2026
Exam version
1.0
Result
Passed with Merit
Assessment standard

Earning criteria

85% minimum

Candidates must achieve at least 85% to earn this credential with merit.

Exam topic breakdown

6 areas

Reconnaissance & Reverse Engineering

12%
12%
  • APK inspection and decompilation
  • Application architecture analysis
  • Manifest and resource analysis
  • Java/Kotlin code review
  • Control-flow and data-flow tracing
  • Static attack-surface discovery

Runtime Analysis & Security Control Bypass

14%
14%
  • Runtime behavior analysis
  • Root-detection bypass
  • Client-side security-control bypass
  • Runtime exposure of sensitive data

Network & Transport Security

12%
12%
  • Mobile HTTP/HTTPS traffic inspection
  • SSL/TLS certificate pinning bypass
  • Network security configuration assessment
  • Cleartext communication testing
  • Transport security weaknesses assessment

IPC & Component Exploitation

13%
13%
  • Inter-application communication testing
  • Deep-link security testing
  • Intent interception and hijacking
  • External input manipulation and component abuse
  • Exported component assessment
  • Intent and intent-filter analysis

WebView, URI & Local Attack Surface

11%
11%
  • WebView security testing
  • URI handling assessment
  • External content manipulation
  • File and metadata trust-boundary testing
  • Filesystem and local path-handling vulnerability testing

API & Backend Security

38%
38%
  • Backend endpoint discovery
  • Authentication and session testing
  • Token handling assessment
  • Authorization and object-level access control testing
  • Business-logic security testing
  • Client-to-backend attack chaining
  • API and backend exploitation