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Reverse Engineering iOS apps. Lessons learned.
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Max Bazaliy
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Reverse Engineering iOS apps. Lessons learned.
UIKonf, Berlin @ 2014
Max Bazaliy
May 15, 2014
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Transcript
Reverse Engineering iOS apps UIKonf 2014 Max Bazaliy
@CocoaHeadsUA iSecurityKit @mbazaliy github.com/mbazaliy
Security audit Competitor analysis Solution advantages Why?
It’s fun!
Analysis
Traffic sniffing Module call tracing I/O activity System Code Disasm\
Decompiling Debugging Resource reversing
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Binary file Image files Interface files Property list files CoreData
model files App files
Compressed pngcrush appcrush.rb artwork extractor Image f iles
NIBs Storyboards nib dec nib_patch Interface files
*.mom momdec CoreData
Binary
otool class-dump MachOView Hopper cycript Reveal Tools
Mach-O binary
32 bit (ARMv6,ARMv7) 0xFEEDFACE 64 bit (ARM64) 0xFEEDFACF Universal binaries
(FAT) 0xCAFEBABE Mach-O header
__TEXT -> code and read only data __objc sections-> data
used by runtime
__message_refs __cls_refs __symbols __module_info __class __meta_class __instance_vars __inst_meth __cls_meth __cat_cls_meth
__protocol_ext __cat_inst_meth
__message_refs __cls_refs __symbols __module_info __class __meta_class __instance_vars __inst_meth __cls_meth __cat_cls_meth
__protocol_ext __cat_inst_meth
class-dump-z
@interface RRSubscription : NSObject {
NSString *_subscriptionID; unsigned int _period; float _price; NSDate *_creationDate; } + (id)arrayOfSubscriptionsWithJSONArray:(id)arg1; + (id)subscriptionWithDictionary:(id)arg1; @property(readonly, nonatomic) NSDate *creationDate; @property(readonly, nonatomic) float price; @property(readonly, nonatomic) unsigned int period;
Binary is encrypted
otool -arch all –Vl MyApp | grep -A5 LC_ENCRYP!
evasi0n.com
> address (cryptoff + cryptsize) size (base address + cryptoff
+ cryptsize)! > gdb dump memory decrypted.bin 0x3000 0xD23000 ! > Address space layout randomization! > 0x1000 -> 0x5000! > decrypted.bin -> binary! > patch header!
None
Rasticrac Clutch dumpdecrypted
Binary analysis Debugger attach ASLR bypass Binary dump Patch cryptid
Clutch Rasticrac
Binary analysis
Disassembler Debugger Decompiler Hopper IDA Disassembler Debugger + objc_helper +
Hex-Rays
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id objc_msgSend(id self, SEL op, ...) 80% of calls
application: didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: Hopper Disassembler
Control flow graph Hopper Disassembler
Decompilation Hopper Disassembler
! Method names Strings Constants
Dump headers Modify ivars Instantiate objects Invoking methods Swizzling methods
cycript
cy# UIApp @"<UIApplication: 0x14632f70>" cy# function tryPrintIvars(a){ var x={}; for(i
in *a){ try{ x[i] = (*a)[i]; } catch(e){} } return x;} cy# UIApp.keyWindow.subviews[0].nextResponder.topViewController @"<UINavigationController: 0x14596530>" cy# UIApp.keyWindow.subviews[0].nextResponder.topViewController. viewControllers[0] @"<JailbreakDetectionVC: 0x15a5ad10>" cy# JailbreakDetectionVC.messages['isJailbroken'] = function () { return NO }; {} cy# [[[UIView alloc] init] autorelease] @"<UIView: 0x14d71bb0; frame = (0 0; 0 0); layer = <CALayer: 0x14d702b0>>"
Runtime inspection Modify layer Dynamically loaded Reveal
Foursquare.app
idb iNalyzer Snoop-it Introspy iRET Special tools
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Best practices Compile with PIE No credentials in plists Disable
NSLog Use NSFileProtection
Best practices Sensitive - keychain View snapshots Cache.db URL Schemes
Secure coding guide
No Objective-C Integrity checks SSL pinning Obfuscation What next ?
None
Public key Certificate SSL pinning
- (void)URLSession:(NSURLSession *)session didReceiveChallenge: (NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge completionHandler:(void (^) (NSURLSessionAuthChallengeDisposition, NSURLCredential
*))completionHandler{! ""…! ""NSData *localCertificateData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile: [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: @"MyCert” ofType: @"crt"]];! "CFDataRef remoteCertificateData = SecCertificateCopyData(remoteVersionOfServerCertificate);! ""BOOL certificatesAreTheSame =! " [localCertificateData isEqualToData: remoteCertificateData];! ""NSURLCredential* cred = [NSURLCredential credentialForTrust: serverTrust];! ""if (certificatesAreTheSame) {! ""completionHandler(NSURLSessionAuthChallengeUseCredential,cred); " "}! ""else { " " completionHandler(NSURLSessionAuthChallengeRejectProtectionSpace,nil);! ""}!
- (AFSecurityPolicy*) googleSecurityPolicy {! NSString *cerPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"google"
ofType:@"cer"];! NSData *certData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:cerPath];! AFSecurityPolicy *securityPolicy = [[AFSecurityPolicy alloc] init];! [securityPolicy setAllowInvalidCertificates:NO];! [securityPolicy setPinnedCertificates:@[certData]];! [securityPolicy setSSLPinningMode:AFSSLPinningModeCertificate];! return securityPolicy; }! ! - (void)googleRequest {! AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *manager = [AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager]; ! [manager setSecurityPolicy:[self googleSecurityPolicy]];! [manager GET:@"www.google.com" parameters:nil success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSDictionary* responseObject) { ! } failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {! }];! }!
Use functions Strip symbols Use #define inline ((always_inline)) Method obfuscation
#define isJailbroken() gbrlp()! static inline int () gbrlp{! …! }!
XORs Decoding tables Don’t use one key Strings obfuscation
! ! #define PTRACE_STRING @"<mlbD3Z1”! NSString *scInfoString = decodeString(PTRACE_STRING);! !
! NSData *encryptedData =! [RNEncryptor encryptData:data " " " " withSettings:kRNCryptorAES256Settings " " " " " password:@"passw0rd” " " " " " " error:&error];! ! NSData *decryptedData =! [RNDecryptor decryptData:data " " " " withSettings:kRNCryptorAES256Settings " " " " " password:@"passw0rd” " " " " " " error:&error];! !
Deny attach Constructor tricks Change values Anti debugger tricks
static int checkGDB() __attribute__((always_inline))! {! size_t size = sizeof(struct kinfo_proc);!
struct kinfo_proc info;! memset(&info, 0, sizeof(struct kinfo_proc));! ! int ret, name[4];! name[0] = CTL_KERN;! name[1] = KERN_PROC;! name[2] = KERN_PROC_PID;! name[3] = getpid();! ! if ((ret = (sysctl(name, 4, &info, &size, NULL, 0))))! return ret;! return (info.kp_proc.p_flag & P_TRACED) ? 1 : 0;! }!
#import <dlfcn.h>! #import <sys/types.h>! ! #define PT_DENY_ATTACH 31! ! typedef
int (*ptrace_ptr_t)! (int _request, pid_t _pid, caddr_t _addr, int _data);! ! void *handle = dlopen(0, RTLD_GLOBAL | RTLD_NOW);! ptrace_ptr_t ptrace_ptr = (ptrace_ptr_t)dlsym(handle, [ptraceString UTF8String]);! ptrace_ptr(PT_DENY_ATTACH, 0, 0, 0);! dlclose(handle);! !
SYSCALL
syscall(26, 31, 0, 0, 0); ! ptrace PT_DENY_ATTACH
+ (PurchaseManager *)sharedManager {! ! if (isDebugged())! return nil;! !
static PurchaseManager *sharedPurchaseManager = nil;! static dispatch_once_t onceToken;! " dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{! sharedPurchaseManager = [[self alloc] init];! });! "! return sharedPurchaseManager ;! }!
Is encrypted Is patched SC_Info iTunesMetadata overdrive tricks Integrity checks
None
const struct mach_header *header =! (struct mach_header *)dlinfo.dli_fbase;! struct load_command
*cmd = (struct load_command *) (header + 1);! for (uint32_t i = 0; cmd != NULL && i < header->ncmds; i++) {! if (cmd->cmd == LC_ENCRYPTION_INFO) {! struct encryption_info_command *crypt_cmd =! "" " " (struct encryption_info_command *)cmd;! if (crypt_cmd->cryptid < 1)! return NO;! else! return YES;! }!
const char * originalSignature = "5f9b18edc3666be3de79134a40deea5b";! const struct mach_header *
header;! Dl_info dlinfo;! ! uint32_t * textSectionAddr = (uint32_t *)section->addr;! uint32_t textSectionSize = section->size;! uint32_t * vmaddr = &segment->vmaddr;! ! char * textSectionPtr = (char *)((int)header + (int)textSectionAddr - " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "(int)vmaddr);! ! unsigned char digest[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];! char signature[2 * CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];! CC_MD5(textSectionPtr, textSectionSize, digest);! ! for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(digest); i++)! "" "sprintf(signature + (2 * i), "%02x", digest[i]);! return strcmp(originalSignature, signature) == 0;!
BOOL isDirectory = NO;! ! NSString *directoryPath = [[[NSBundle mainBundle]
bundlePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"SC_Info/"];! ! BOOL directoryExists = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:directoryPath isDirectory:&isDirectory];! ! BOOL contentSeemsValid = ([[[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:directoryPath error:NULL] count] == 2);
NSString *scInfoString = @"SC_Info/";! NSString *appleIDString = @"appleId";! NSString *appleIDMailAddress
= @"
[email protected]
";! NSString *metadataString = @"iTunesMetadata.plist";! NSString *downloadInfoKeyString = @"com.apple.iTunesStore.downloadInfo";! NSString *accountInfoString = @"accountInfo";! ! NSDictionary *iTunesMetadata = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:[rootDirectoryPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:metadataString]];! NSString *appleID = [iTunesMetadata objectForKey:appleIDString];! NSDictionary *accountInfo = [[iTunesMetadata objectForKey:downloadInfoKeyString] objectForKey:accountInfoString];! BOOL isValidAppleID = (appleID.length > 0 && [appleID rangeOfString:appleIDMailAddress options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch].location == NSNotFound);! BOOL isValidDownloadInfo = (accountInfo.count > 0);}!
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BOOL dyLibFound = NO;! NSArray *directoryFiles = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:
[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] error:NULL];! ! for (NSString *filename in directoryFiles) {! if ([[filename pathExtension] caseInsensitiveCompare:@"dylib"] == NSOrderedSame) {! dyLibFound = YES;! break;! }! }!
Class hooksClass = objc_getClass("hooks");! Class descriptorsClass = objc_getClass("descriptors");! SEL allocWithZoneSelector
= sel_registerName("allocWithZone:");! ! if (hooksClass != NULL) {! "Method method = ! " class_getClassMethod(hooksClass, allocWithZoneSelector);! " method_setImplementation(method, (IMP)nilImplementation);! }! ! if (descriptorsClass != NULL) {! Method method = ! class_getClassMethod(descriptorsClass, allocWithZoneSelector);! method_setImplementation(method, (IMP)nilImplementation);! }!
Terminate app Run in demo mode Change behavior What next?
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Path check URL check File access Root check Process check
Jailbreak detection
! NSError *error;! NSString *jailTest = @"Jailbreak time!";! [jailTest writeToFile:@"/private/
test_jail.txt" atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];! if(error==nil) {! …! }!
int result = fork();! "if (!result)! exit(0); ! if (result
>= 0)! return isJail;! return noJail;! ! ! if (system(0)) ! ...! }!
NSURL *FakeURL = [NSURL URLWithString:! @"cydia://package/com.fake.package"];! ! if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication]
canOpenURL:FakeURL])! return isJail;! else! return noJail;
NSArray *jailbrokenPaths = @[@"/Applications/Cydia.app",! @"/Applications/RockApp.app",! @"/Applications/Icy.app",! @"/usr/sbin/sshd",! @"/usr/bin/sshd",! @"/private/var/lib/apt",! @"/private/var/lib/cydia",!
@"/usr/libexec/sftp-server”,! @"/private/var/stash"];! ! for (NSString *string in jailbrokenPaths)! if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] " " " " "fileExistsAtPath:string]) {! …! }!
! ! NSArray *processes = [self runningProcesses];! ! for (NSDictionary
* dict in processes) {! NSString *process = dict[@"ProcessName"];! if ([process isEqualToString:@"MobileCydia"]) " " "{! ...! }! !
iMAS Encrypted Core Data Security checks Passcode check Memory security
LLVM Obfuscator Instructions substitution Control Flow flattening Bogus Control Flow
Functions merging
LLVM Obfuscator Instructions substitution Control Flow flattening Bogus Control Flow
Functions merging
Cracking time = Protection time
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