6. Analyzing Android Applications Part 2

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CNIT 128
Hacking Mobile Devices
6. Analyzing Android Applications

Part 2

Topics
• Part 1
• Creating Your First Android Environment
• Understanding Android Applications
• Part 2
• Understanding the Security Model: p 205-222
• Part 3
• Understanding the Security Model: p 222ff
• Reverse-Engineering Applications

Topics in Part 2
• Code Signing
• Understanding Permissions
• Application Sandbox
• Filesystem Encryption

The Security Model
• No app should be able to access another
app's data without authorization
• Open and extensible environment
• Android must know who created an app
• At least to know whether Google made it or
not

Digital Certiﬁcates
• Public-key cryptography
• Private key held only by app developer
• Generate key with keytool
• Sign app with jarsigner
• Signature in META-INF directory

6. Analyzing Android Applications Part 2

Certiﬁcate Validation
• Android does not verify the certificate in any
way
• Certificates don't need to come from a trusted
Certificate Authority
• Most are self-signed
• Certificate checked only when app is installed

Certiﬁcate Validity Period
• Google recommends a valid period of 25 years
or longer
• So you can update your app

Signing Vulnerabilities
• Master Key
• "Extra" Field Length
• "Name" Field Length

Master Key
• Found in 2013 by BlueBox Security
• If two files are in the APK archive with the
same filenames
• Only the first file's hash is checked
• But the second file is actually deployed to
the device
• Arbitrary code execution possible

"Extra" Field Length
• Length field is a 16-bit value
• Java treats it as signed
• Can overflow and become negative
• Allows injection of altered files that pass
signature verification

"Name" Field Length
• Length not checked by the Java verification
code
• Allows code injection into the filename
• While passing signature validation

The Android Permission
Model
• Permissions shown at
install time

Permission Protection
Levels
• An app can define a new permission
• When it does, a protection level is assigned
to it
• Skype defines this permission 
<permission android:name= 
"com.skype.raider.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"
android:protectionLevel="signature"/>

Permission Protection
Levels
• system
• Part ot the Android system image
• Or app installed in some folders on the  
/system partition
• development
• Permissions applied at runtime
• Uncommon, poorly documented

"Signature" Protection
• Recommended for apps that don't intend to
share data or functionality with apps from
other developers
• No other apps can access your app's
components

Malicious Apps
• Can just ask for permissions and hope the
user allows it (social engineering)
• Or include a kernel exploit to gain root, such
as Gingerbreak

Data Folder Permissions
• Each app runs as its own user
• Unless it requests to run as sharedUserId and
has the same signature as another app
• Some apps allow world-execute, like Schwab

Sandbox Limitations
• Not a separate virtual machine for each app
• Only Linux user and group permissions

"Full Disk Encryption"
• Prevents data theft from a stolen device
• Available since Android v. 3.0
• Not enabled by default in versions prior to 5.0
• Encrypts with AES-CBC, a strong algorithm
• FDE is going away, replaced by file-based
encryption (link Ch 6

Android Versions
• Elcomsoft estimated that 13% of Android
devices were encrypted in 2017
• Links Ch 6f, 6g

Encryption Limitations
• SD card not encrypted
• Only protects data at rest
• If attacker can execute code on the device,
encryption does nothing

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6. Analyzing Android Applications Part 2

1. CNIT 128 Hacking Mobile Devices 6. Analyzing Android Applications Part 2

2. Topics • Part 1 • Creating Your First Android Environment • Understanding Android Applications • Part 2 • Understanding the Security Model: p 205-222 • Part 3 • Understanding the Security Model: p 222ff • Reverse-Engineering Applications

3. Topics in Part 2 • Code Signing • Understanding Permissions • Application Sandbox • Filesystem Encryption

4. The Security Model • No app should be able to access another app's data without authorization • Open and extensible environment • Android must know who created an app • At least to know whether Google made it or not

5. Code Signing

6. Digital Certiﬁcates • Public-key cryptography • Private key held only by app developer • Generate key with keytool • Sign app with jarsigner • Signature in META-INF directory

7. Unpacking the Bank of America App

8. The Certiﬁcate in META-INF

11. MD5 Collisions • Link Ch 6a

12. Collision Attack Unlikely • Link Ch 6d

13. Certiﬁcate Validation • Android does not verify the certificate in any way • Certificates don't need to come from a trusted Certificate Authority • Most are self-signed • Certificate checked only when app is installed

14. Certiﬁcate Validity Period • Google recommends a valid period of 25 years or longer • So you can update your app

15. Signing Vulnerabilities • Master Key • "Extra" Field Length • "Name" Field Length

16. Master Key • Found in 2013 by BlueBox Security • If two files are in the APK archive with the same filenames • Only the first file's hash is checked • But the second file is actually deployed to the device • Arbitrary code execution possible

17. "Extra" Field Length • Length field is a 16-bit value • Java treats it as signed • Can overflow and become negative • Allows injection of altered files that pass signature verification

18. "Name" Field Length • Length not checked by the Java verification code • Allows code injection into the filename • While passing signature validation

19. Understanding Permissions

20. The Android Permission Model • Permissions shown at install time

21. AndroidManifest.xml

22. Permission Protection Levels • An app can define a new permission • When it does, a protection level is assigned to it • Skype defines this permission  <permission android:name=  "com.skype.raider.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" android:protectionLevel="signature"/>

23. Permission Protection Levels

24. Permission Protection Levels

25. Permission Protection Levels • system • Part ot the Android system image • Or app installed in some folders on the   /system partition • development • Permissions applied at runtime • Uncommon, poorly documented

26. "Signature" Protection • Recommended for apps that don't intend to share data or functionality with apps from other developers • No other apps can access your app's components

27. Malicious Apps • Can just ask for permissions and hope the user allows it (social engineering) • Or include a kernel exploit to gain root, such as Gingerbreak

28. Application Sandbox

29. Data Folder Permissions • Each app runs as its own user • Unless it requests to run as sharedUserId and has the same signature as another app • Some apps allow world-execute, like Schwab

30. Sandbox Limitations • Not a separate virtual machine for each app • Only Linux user and group permissions

31. Filesystem Encryption

32. "Full Disk Encryption" • Prevents data theft from a stolen device • Available since Android v. 3.0 • Not enabled by default in versions prior to 5.0 • Encrypts with AES-CBC, a strong algorithm • FDE is going away, replaced by file-based encryption (link Ch 6

33. Android Versions • Elcomsoft estimated that 13% of Android devices were encrypted in 2017 • Links Ch 6f, 6g

34. Encryption Limitations • SD card not encrypted • Only protects data at rest • If attacker can execute code on the device, encryption does nothing