Mobile Supply Chain Protection

Why mobile supply chain is different

What you test is not what you ship.

Mobile apps are assembled from SDKs, analytics libraries, ad frameworks, and transitive open-source packages most security teams never inspect. Build-time tools weren't designed for the binary blobs that actually run on the device.

M2: Inadequate Supply Chain Security: Added as a dedicated risk category. The industry now treats mobile supply chain as a distinct threat surface, separate from web supply chain risk.
60%+ of top mobile SDKs ship as precompiled binaries: Static scanners and classic SCA tools cannot inspect them. Server-side SCA often can't even parse APK or IPA bundles, so what gets shipped to the device is never validated.
Signed, vetted dependencies still get compromised: In the Shai-Hulud and Mini Shai-Hulud waves, even widely-used projects with SLSA provenance, OIDC trusted publishing, and 2FA still shipped malicious versions through hijacked CI/CD. Build-time vetting is necessary, but not sufficient.
Compromised packages land inside your app: Recent npm supply chain campaigns have hit packages used by React Native, Flutter, and Android tooling pipelines. The attack surface is no longer a server-side concern.

Our approach

Three layers, one assumption: breach.

Visibility tools tell you what is inside your app. We assume something inside it is already malicious, and watch for it on the device.

Pillar 1 · Philosophy

Assume-breach for every dependency

We treat every third-party SDK, library, and transitive package as if it can be hijacked at any release. The defense doesn't depend on trusting a signature. It depends on what the code does at runtime.

No trust placed in publisher reputation alone
Build-time signatures treated as one signal, not proof
Detection logic stays valid even after a clean re-audit

Pillar 2 · Runtime (powered by Alphyn)

Behavioral defense on the device

Our existing Alphyn RASP SDK already enforces integrity verification, anti-tampering, root and jailbreak detection, and secure channel controls. We extend that runtime substrate with anomalous-behavior detection of embedded components.

Integrity verification of app binary and embedded components
Anti-tampering and repackaging detection
Secure channel enforcement against rerouted traffic
Anomalous component behavior detection

Pillar 3 · Research depth

We know how this hides in a binary

ByteriaLab maintains Renef, our open-source ARM64 dynamic-instrumentation toolkit, and a public reverse-engineering practice. We don't just scan binaries, we tear them apart for a living. That is the research substrate behind every detection we ship.

Renef · open-source ARM64 dynamic instrumentation toolkit
Alphyn RASP · production mobile runtime protection SDK
Active reverse-engineering and offensive security research

Our own supply chain

We ship an SDK into your app, so we're part of your supply chain too.

We hold our own builds to the same bar we ask of our customers' dependencies: reproducible builds, signed releases, published provenance, and a verifiable SBOM for every Byteria SDK we ship. If a future Shai-Hulud reaches our pipeline, you will know. So will we.

Signed releases with verifiable provenance
Published SBOM for every Byteria SDK version
External binary review on major releases

Ready when you are

Stop a compromised dependency before it ships.

See ByteriaLab's Mobile Supply Chain Protection running on your own app. Our team walks you through detection, integration, and the runtime telemetry your security org needs.

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