The 5 Most Common API Interception Techniques: Strengths, Weaknesses, Recommendations

There are many ways to perform API interception. This whitepaper outlines the five most common techniques, including:

• Inline hooking
• Callbacks
• Import table rewriting
• Method rewriting
• Web API Intercept

and details strengths and weaknesses of each approach. This paper also reviews how Deepfactor, a developer security platform, has used API interception for the purposes of providing engineering teams with contextual application security insights.