Some time ago I wrote some articles on how to Man-In-The-Middle Flutter on iOS, Android (ARM) and Android (ARM64). Those posts were quite popular and I often went back to copy those scripts myself. Last week, however, we received a Flutter application where the script wouldn't work anymore. As we had the source code, it … Continue reading Intercept Flutter traffic on iOS and Android (HTTP/HTTPS/Dio Pinning)
While banking trojans have been around for a very long time now, we have never seen a mobile malware family attack the applications of Belgian financial institutions. Until today... Earlier this week, the Italy-based Cleafy published an article about a new android malware family which they dubbed TeaBot. The sample we will take a look … Continue reading New mobile malware family now also targets Belgian financial apps
This blogpost explains all the steps I took while analyzing the Cabassous/FluBot malware. I wrote this while analyzing the sample and I've written down both successful and failed attempts at moving forward, as well as my thoughts/options along the way. As a result, this blogpost is not a writeup of the Cabassous/FluBot malware, but rather … Continue reading How to analyze mobile malware: a Cabassous/FluBot Case study
Latest update: February 2023 During a mobile assessment, there will typically be two sub-assessments: The mobile frontend, and the backend API. In order to examine the security of the API, you will either need extensive documentation such as Swagger or Postman files, or you can let the mobile application generate all the traffic for you … Continue reading Proxying Android app traffic – Common issues / checklist (2023)
My previous blogposts explained how to intercept Flutter traffic on Android ARMv8, with a detailed follow along guide for ARMv7. This blogpost does the same for iOS. â ď¸ Update August 2022 â ď¸An update to this blog post was written and can be found here. It covers both iOS and Android and a convenient script / … Continue reading Intercepting Flutter traffic on iOS
In a previous blogpost, I explained my steps for reversing the flutter.so binary to identify the correct offset/pattern to bypass certificate validation. As a very quick summary: Flutter doesn't use the system's proxy settings, and it doesn't use the system's certificate store, so normal approaches don't work. My previous guide only explained how to intercept … Continue reading Intercepting Flutter traffic on Android (ARMv8)
Update: The explanation below explains the step for ARMv7. For ARMv8 (64bit), see this blogpost. â ď¸ Update August 2022 â ď¸An update to this blog post was written and can be found here. It covers both iOS and Android and a convenient script / Frida codeshare to use. Flutter is Google's new open source mobile development framework that … Continue reading Intercepting traffic from Android Flutter applications
A few weekends ago we participated in the Google CTF. While we didn't make it to the top 10, we did manage to solve quite a few challenges. This is my writeup of FlaggyBird, the only mobile challenge that was available. The challenge The challenge was an .apk that did not require network connectivity. Installing … Continue reading Solving Flaggy Bird (Google CTF 2019)
TL;DR - There are many Android SSL pinning bypass scripts available for Frida. However, those don't always work on obfuscated applications. If the application uses OkHttp, there's an easy way to find a convenient place to bypass the pinning by grepping for the right SMALI string. The target For this blogpost, I've created a little … Continue reading Circumventing SSL Pinning in obfuscated apps with OkHttp
TL;DR: You can configure Burp to use your PKCS#11 (or Belgian eID) card to set up client-authenticated SSL sessions, which you can then intercept and modify. This blog post shows how you can easily view and modify your own, local traffic. In order to complete this tutorial, you still need a valid eID card, and the … Continue reading Intercepting Belgian eID (PKCS#11) traffic with Burp Suite on OS X / Kali / Windows
