CNIT 128 6. Analyzing Android Applications (Part 3 of 3)

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This document discusses analyzing Android applications and reverse engineering. It covers generic exploit mitigation protections, rooting explained, and reverse engineering applications. For rooting, it discusses using exploits or an unlocked bootloader. For reverse engineering applications, it discusses pulling the APK from a phone, disassembling with tools like apktool, scanning for vulnerabilities, modifying the code with tools like Jadx, and repacking/signing the APK.

CNIT 128

Hacking Mobile Devices
6. Analyzing Android Applications

Part 3
Updated 2-10-21

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 3
• Generic Exploit Mitigation Protections

• Rooting Explained

• Reverse-Engineering Applications

Exploit Mitigations
• Make the underlying OS more secure

• So even unpatched legacy code is safer

• Many of these mitigations are inherited from
Linux

CNIT 128 6. Analyzing Android Applications (Part 3 of 3)

Root Access
• By default Android doesn't allow users to use
root

• Rooting typically adds a su binary

• Allows elevation to root

• So su itself must run as root

SUID Permissions
• Runs with owner's permissions

• Even when launched by someone else

Security of su
• On Linux, it asks for
a password to allow
elevation

• On Android, it pops
up a box like this

Rooting Methods
• Using an exploit

• Using an unlocked bootloader

Exploits
• Gingerbreak

• Exploited vold to write to the Global Offset
Table (GOT) in Android 2.2 and 3.0

• Bug in Google's original Android

• Exynos abuse

• Bug in driver for exynos processors, used by
Samsung

• Only affected some devices

• Samsung Admire

• Exploited dump files and logs to change
pemissions on adb

• Worked only on specific device

• Ace Iconia

• Pre-installed SUID binary with code injection
vulnerability
Exploits

• Master Key

• Make a modified system app, when two files
have the same name

• Re-install it with the same signature

• Works on most Android versions prior to 4.2

• Towelroot

• Exploits locks used when threading

• Rooted many devices
Exploits

• Flash new firmware onto device

• A new recovery image, or

• A rooted kernel image containing su

• May void warranty or brick your phone
Unlocked Bootloader

In the Projects
• Pulling an APK from the phone with adb

• Disassemble with apktool

Vulnerability Scanning
• Qark and AndroBugs

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