iOS Client Side Analysis

iOS App Pen-Testing
Client Side Analysis
Oct'16 NULL Meet

Me..
I work at Aleph Tav Technologies as AppSec guy
I do web and mobile app pen testing
@Aadarshaddy

To-Do

Traffic Analysis
Setting proxy. Manipulate parameters using a
proxy tool.

Client-Side Analysis (Run-time, rev-eng)
Getting the application executable, getting
class info, local data storage, hard-coded
information, Debugging

Attack Network Components

Agenda today

Traffic analysis is as simple as setting a proxy
and listening to it using a proxy tool in your
system. Pretty much like webapp pen-testing.

Agenda today is client-side analysis.

Uses these..
Uses the following technology stack..
Objective-C (runtime oriented language)
Cocoa library (API)
Recently SWIFT

Pre-Requisite

Jailbroken (Cydia installed) device – Mandatory
(Advisable to have a unsupported device to
avoid frequent updates of OS)
This is a trade-off between what version of the
OS the target application to test supports.

Macbook – Recommended to have one for
using Xcode


White Box Testing

Black Box Testing
Most often it is Black Box testing, we shall see
bit of both

Tools list:
jailbroken device required
Ios_analyze.pl ,Mac-robber and log2timeline
Crackulous, appcrack, Appswitch, Cycript,
OpenSSH, unzip, wget
SQLite 3.x, MobileTerminal, class-dump-z, tar,
clutch,dumpencrypted, otool
GDB, r2clutch,Snoop-it, iPhonetunnel
keychain dumper, cydia substrate, adv-cmds,
Darwin CC tools
APT 0.6 Transitional, Git, GNU Debugger, less,

Getting into the device

ssh root@ipaddressOfiPhone
default pwd:alpine

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

Two stuffs are a basic knowledge to do
analysis on a 3rd
party iOS app

In /var/mobile/Applications
Application sandbox is here

Encrypted
App downloaded from app store is encrypted

Copying executable

sftp root@ipaddressOfiPhone

cd /usr/bin

put clutch

Clutch is the application used to decrypt the 3rd
party applications. Typing clutch will list the
applications which are possible to decrypt


Get the ipa file using clutch and unzip it.

Get the class file of the executable using class-
dump-z. The executable is always the app's
name.
As in,
Class-dump-z path/to/app/executable >class-
info-executable

What and Where to look for?
1. Plists files -
Use Plutil to convert to XML
Plutil -convert xml1 xxx.plist
Or Property list editor in Xcode
Look for juicy information: passwords,
checksums, email-ids, any sensitive data

2. SQLite:
Again client side stored data is dangerous.
Sqlite like in android does not have inbuilt
support for encrytion of data.
There are extenstions to do it – CEROD ,
sqlcipher, smartstore
-but again the encryption keys are available
client side and we can breakpoint it and pull the
keyfrom memory
Path/to/app/appname.app/database.sqlite3

3. Logging Files:
NSLog
Default:
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<Dev
icename>/private/var/log/system.log
Custom:
Grep -r -F “NSLog” $project_path/ | grep -v .svn

4. Caching:
File Caching
~/Library/Application Support/iPhone
simulator/x.x.x/Applications/<application
folder>/Documents/temp.pdf
Keyboard Caching
Simulator/x.x.x/Library/keyboard/dynamic-text.dat
Snapshot Caching
Simulator/x.x.x/Applications/<application
folder>/Library/Caches/Snapshots/

5 .Keychains:
It’s a sqlite database file located at
/private/var/Keychains/keychain-2.db and all the
data stored in it is encrypted
Snoop-it tool, keychain-dumper

6. Stack Smashing Protection:
To mitigate Stack Overflow attacks
If used the application binary will contain
_stack_chk_fail and _stack_chk_guard symbols
To Test:
Otool –I –v ApplicationBinary | grep stack

7. ASLR Flag:
To mitigate memory corruption vulnerabilities
To Test:
Otool –VhApplicaitonBinary
It should have PIE flag in the output

8. Automatic Reference Counting:
Again to avoid memory corruption vulnerability
by moving the responsibility of memory
management from the developer to the compiler
Otool –I –v ApplicationBinary | grep
_objc_release

Automatic Reference Counting
Client Side Authentication bypass
Client Side SQL Injection
Hardcoded sensitive information anywhere
Client Side validation bypass
No jailbreak detection
Obselete files
Tapjacking??
Every testcase recommended by OWASP for

Hard time with SSL Pinning
Use ios-ssl-killswitch
Use Cycript, do runtime hooks and unpin
Downgrade HTTPS to HTTP in burp
(or)
Ask the client to give the unpinned version – as
simple as that. It might not work for bounty
hunters though :P

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