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April 09, 2015
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Transcript
HACK AND PROTECT YOUR APPS
AGENDA Droidcon Montréal 2015 01 Hack 02 Protect 03 Develop
04 Conclude
LET’S HACK Reverse engineering & red light saber
LET’S HACK Reverse engineering & red light saber You underestimate
the power of the dark side.
LET’S HACK Demo : AdBlock Plus
LET’S HACK Can we read Smali ? .method public isChecked
()Z .locals 1 .prologue .line 102 iget-boolean v0, p0, Lorg/jraf/android/backport/switchwidget/TwoStatePreference ;- >mChecked:Z return v0 .end method
LET’S HACK Tools adb + unzip extract apk and some
ressources apktool Smali + ressources jadx Java code (partial)
LET’S PROTECT Obfuscation & The Force
LET’S PROTECT Obfuscation & The Force Do. Or do not.
There is no try.
LET’S PROTECT What is obfuscation ? package a; public class
a { [...] public boolean a() { return a; } }
LET’S PROTECT Demo : Proguard
LET’S PROTECT Is Obfuscation enough ? public class a {
private static String a = "MotDePasseSecurePourChiffrer" ; public static Cipher a() { Cipher localCipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS7Padding" , "BC"); localCipher .init(1, new SecretKeySpec (a.getBytes(), "AES")); return localCipher; } }
LET’S PROTECT When ? When to protect ? · Whenever
you want · Keep in mind that one motivated guy with enought ressources can break anything.
LET’S DEVELOP Audit, opportunism & more...
LET’S DEVELOP Audit, opportunism & more... GGGWARRRHH WWWW
LET’S DEVELOP How can this help me ? audit your
build, third parties apps explore frameworks debug, hidden APIs ...
LET’S CONCLUDE All good things must come to an end
LET’S CONCLUDE All good things come to an end LET’S
HACK LET’S PROTECT LET’S DEVELOP
Thank you ! Sylvain Galand
[email protected]
www.genymobile.com