What tool intercepts and modifies API HTTP responses to a mobile device?
Short answer
B Burp Suite
Question
Key Takeaways
The exam tests your ability to identify tools for real-time HTTP traffic manipulation, not static analysis; many candidates overlook Burp Suite's proxy capabilities.
Burp Suite is the best tool for intercepting, modifying, and replaying HTTP responses to mobile devices; community consensus strongly favors Burp Suite for API security testing.
Common mistake: Choosing MobSF (D) because it performs dynamic analysis, but it is a security scanner, not an interception proxy for modifying live HTTP responses.
Expert Analysis
Why the Answer Is Correct
Burp Suite is an industry-standard web and mobile API security testing tool that includes a proxy capable of intercepting HTTP requests/responses, modifying them on the fly, and forwarding them. It is explicitly listed in the CompTIA Pentest+ (PT0-002) objectives for mobile and API testing. The Sybex study guide references it, as noted in a comment. This functionality perfectly matches the scenario.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Drozer is a mobile app security assessment framework focused on Android vulnerability discovery, not HTTP traffic manipulation. Android SDK Tools are for app development, not interception/testing. MobSF is a static/dynamic analysis platform; while its dynamic analyzer can intercept some traffic, it is not designed for granular response modification and replay. Burp Suite is the only option offering full proxy-based control.
Community Comment Notes
Several comments correctly select B, citing the Sybex guide and Burp Suite's role in the mobile section of the Pentest+ outline. One comment (like=1) suggests MobSF, but that tool's dynamic analysis is primarily observation and automated testing, not explicit response tampering. The majority vote (80 vs 20) reinforces Burp Suite as the expected answer.
Official Reference
- https://portswigger.net/burp
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF
- https://owasp.org/www-project-mobile-security-testing-guide/
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Exam Strategy
Remember that any question about intercepting, modifying, and forwarding HTTP traffic points to a web proxy like Burp Suite. For mobile-specific questions, set up the device to route through Burp's proxy rather than choosing a full mobile analysis framework.
Community Votes
80% of anonymous learners picked answer B. Votes are pick records left by other test-takers — they are not the verified answer.
Discussion 6 contributions
Compiled from public community threads and reader submissions, lightly edited for clarity. Handles and vote tallies are shown as recorded, and comments reflect the views of individual contributors.
From public community threads 6
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Slick0 👍 1 Answered DWe're sending the interception to a mobile device specifically though. While burpsuite may be able to do it, i don't think it was specifically designed to as much as MobSF Dynamic Analysis: MobSF can perform dynamic analysis of mobile applications, including runtime behaviour analysis, code injection, and traffic interception
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041ba31 👍 1 Answered BBurp Suite is the best tool for intercepting and modifying HTTP responses of an API and forwarding them, as it provides a comprehensive suite for web application security testing
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Kegger 👍 1 Answered BB. Burp Suite. From the Sybex PT0-002 Study guide. Burpsuite is also listed in the mobile section of Pentest+ outline.
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Nikamy 👍 1 Answered BBurp suite better for this task
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r3vrnd 👍 1Answer B Learn BurpeSuite.
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swiggharo 👍 1 Answered BBurp Suite
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