iOS Jailbreak | AltDeploy | G0blin

Sateesh Verma
2 min readMar 12, 2022

First step to perform an iOS pentest is to jailbreak the device. Checkra1n won’t work for the old iOS OS versions. checkra1n works on OS>12.0 versions. If you are using the old OS in your device then use alternate method to jailbreak the device.

iOS OS version: 10.3.2

Tools used for jailbreak: Altdeploy & G0blin (ssh enabled)

step1: Download altdeploy from the git link

Step2: Download g0blin (https://ihax.io/g0blin-jailbreak/)

Step3: Plugin your iPhone device to the MacOS system and open the Altdeploy. Browse the goblin.ipa file from the system and click on start.

Step4: After few validation altdeploy will popped up with error message “Could not connect to Mail plug-in”

Step5: To fix this issue navigate to Mail →Prefrences → Manage Plug-ins. select the AltPlugin.mailbundle checkbox. Then click on “Apply and Restart mail”.

Step 6: Now again open the altdeploy and click on start (or repeat step#3). after doing few validation checks it will sideload g0blin.ipa file in your iPhone device.

Step 7: Go to iPhone device and open the g0blin application and click on Jailbreak button.

it will jailbreak the device and you will see Cydia app. Next step it to install the necessary tools which is required to perform the pentest.

Happy Hacking guys….

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