Android Application Security from consumer and developer perspectives

Android ApplicationSecurityfrom Consumer and

Developer Perspectives

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Agenda

● Statistics

● Developer Perspective

○ OWASP Mobile Top 10

○ Additional Security Best Practices

● Consumer Perspective

○ Android Malware (Demo and code walkthrough)

■ AndroRAT - Android Remote Administration Tool

■ Android Chat - Custom made RAT demo

○ Prevention and Detection Options

Statistics

Source; McAfee Labs -

2016 Threats Predictions

Mobile and Non-mobile Application Weaknesses

Source: HPE Security

Research Cyber Risk

Report 2016

Mobile Applications Threats

Source: HPE Security

Research Cyber Risk

Report 2016

OWASP Mobile Top 10

OWASP Mobile Top 10

M1: Weak Server Side Controls (Relates to OWASP Top 10)

A1 Injection

A2 Broken Authentication and Session Management

A3 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

A4 Insecure Direct Object References

A5 Security Misconfiguration

A6 Sensitive Data Exposure

A7 Missing Function Level Access Control

A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

A9 Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

A10 Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards

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OWASP Mobile Top 10 (Cntd.)

M2: Insecure Data Storage

Storage Options:

● Shared Preferences● Internal Storage● External Storage● SQLite Databases● Network Connection

Encrypt sensitive data before storing

Encryption keys should not be hardcoded (KeyStore, ‘FireAndForget’ key)

Shared preferences should not be MODE_WORLD_READABLE/WRITABLE (deprecated in API level 17)

Transport Layer Protection

OWASP Mobile Top 10 (Cntd.)M3: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection

General transport layer protection practices

● SSL/TLS (TLS 1.2 prefered) with strong cipher suite & appropriate key lengths

● Certificates issued by trusted CA provider● SSL chain verification / Hostname verification● Always alert user if any validation goes wrong

When possible, do application level encryption before sending data over transport layer (avoid future transport layer vulnerabilities)

M4: Unintended Data Leakage

● Keyboard Caching / Suggestions ○ For non-password informtion : android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"○ For passwords : andorid:inputType="password"

● Analytics Data● Logs (!)

OWASP Mobile Top 10 (Cntd.)

M5: Poor Authorization and Authentication

● Never persistent credentials locally● Avoid spoofable values during authentication (MAC/IMEI)● Ensure authorization controls cannot be bypassed● Token based authentication with backend APIs (OAuth 2)

○ Google “Dulanja API Security”

● Discourage use of 4 digit or all digit pass-codes

M6: Broken Cryptography

M7: Client Side Injection

SQL Injection (SQL Lite), XSS, File Inclusion

OWASP Mobile Top 10 (Cntd.)

M8: Security Decisions Via Untrusted Inputs

Intents

PackageManager.getLaunchIntentForPackage(-)

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);intent.setComponent(ComponentName.unflattenFromString("com.example.app/com.ex ample.app.ExampleAction"));intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);intent.putExtra(“SESSION_DATA”, sessionData);startActivity(intent);

Binder Framework

http://blog.checkpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Man-In-The-Binder-He-Who-Controls-IPC-Controls-The-Droid-wp.pdf

BroadcastReceiver

OWASP Mobile Top 10 (Cntd.)

M9: Improper Session Handling : Timeouts, cookie or token rotation

M10: Lack of Binary Protections

● Bytecode Conversion (apktool; dex2jar)● Runtime Analysis (ADB)● Reverse Engineering (IDA Pro)

○ https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/tutorials/debugging_dalvik.pdf ● Disassembly (baksmali)

Let’s keep these for another sessions...(Maybe: Android Application Security - from Pentester Perspective)

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Android Malware

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AndroRAT (Remote Administration Tool)

Demo and code walkthrough

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Android Chat - Custom Made RAT

Demo and code walkthrough

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Prevention and Detection Options

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Application permissionsAlways double check application permissions!

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Application permissions

Pokémon GO:

● In-app purchases● Identity● Location● Photos/Media/Files● Camera● Other

○ receive data from Internet

MX Player:

● Photos/Media/Files● Wi-Fi connection information● Other

○ receive data from Internet

VLC Player:

● Photos/Media/Files

New Permission Model

Android 6.0 (API level 23)+

● Users grant permissions at run-time

● User can control what permissions to allow (and what to revoke)

● Developers see warnings if code will break due to not handling permission revocations properly.

● Dangerous permission must be approved manually.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/requesting.html

Dangerous permissions

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https://www.owasp.org/images/c/ca/ASDC12-An_InDepth_Introduction_to_the_Android_Permissions_Modeland_How_to_Secure_MultiComponent_Applicati

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https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/permissions/requesting.html

Modify Application Permissions

App Opps (Not available with 4.4.2. Use “App Ops [Root]” or similar from Sore)

Network Traffic Analysis

Shark for Root Packet Capture

Firewalls

Additional Security Best PracticesApart from what was discussed in OWASP Mobile Top 10

● Request least number of permissions possible (avoid dangerous permissions)

● Update dependent libraries and frameworks

● Properly define Content Provider’s exposed attribute and permissions

● Avoid storing and transmitting personal / sensitive data as much as possible

● Using WebView can introduce web application vulnerabilities (XSS, Cache Poisoning, ..) to mobile apps. Use with caution!

● Be cautious with dynamic class loading and usage of reflection (do not allow external parties to tamper dynamic values)

● https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-tips.html

Point to Ponder Is there any option but to sacrifice privacy?

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Uber God View

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BE WITHIN LEGAL LIMITS

Only test with your own devices, or test with proper authorization.

Thank you!