Intercepting Flutter traffic on Android (ARMv8)

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)

Intercepting traffic from Android Flutter applications

Update: The explanation below explains the step for ARMv7. For ARMv8 (64bit), see this blogpost. ⚠️ Update August 2022 âš 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

Solving Flaggy Bird (Google CTF 2019)

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)

Circumventing SSL Pinning in obfuscated apps with OkHttp

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

Intercepting Belgian eID (PKCS#11) traffic with Burp Suite on OS X / Kali / Windows

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

Using a custom root CA with Burp for inspecting Android N traffic

TL;DR: Follow these steps to intercept traffic using Burp with a self made root CA on Android (or any browser) The problem In a previous blogpost, we presented a Magisk module that easily integrates user certificates into the system CA store in order to bypass Android N's new hardened security model. For instrumenting applications, this … Continue reading Using a custom root CA with Burp for inspecting Android N traffic