Mobile Application Security – Effective methodology, efficient testing!

Mobile Application Security – Effective
Methodology,
Effective Testing!

OWASP InfoSec India Conference 2012. Hotel Crowne Plaza, Gurgaon

hemil@espheresecurity.net
http://www.espheresecurity.com
http://www.espheresecurity.com

Who Am I?
• Hemil Shah – hemil@espheresecurity.net
• Past experience
– HBO, KPMG, IL&FS, Net Square
• Interest
– Application security research (Web & Mobile)
• Published research
– Articles / Papers – Packstroem, etc.
– Tools – wsScanner, scanweb2.0, AppMap, AppCodeScan, AppPrint etc.


Enterprise Technology Trend
• 2007. Web services would rocket from $1.6
billion in 2004 to $34 billion. [IDC]
• 2008. Web Services or Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) would surge ahead.
[Gartner]
• 2009. Enterprise 2.0 in action and penetrating
deeper into the corporate environment
• 2010. Flex/HTML5/Cloud/API
• 2012. HTML5/Mobile era.

Past, Present and Future
Focus

2010
Cloud


Mobile Infrastructure
Other
Office
s

Internet
Exchange
firewall

DMZ
Dial-up
router
VPN intranet

www mail
RAS
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Mobile App Environment
Internet DMZ Trusted

SOAP/JSON etc.

Mobile W
E
Scripted Application B
Web Web Servers S
Server Engine And E
Web Static pages only Dynamic pages
(HTML,HTM, etc.) (ASP,DHTML, PHP, Integrated R
Client CGI, etc.) Framework V

X
I
ASP.NET on C
.Net Framework, E
J2EE App Server, S
Web Services,
DB etc.

Internal/Corporate

Mobile Apps


Gartner Statistics


Mobile Changes
• Application Infrastructure

Changing dimension Web Mobile
(AI1) Protocols HTTP & HTTPS JSON, SOAP, REST etc. over
HTTP & HTTPS

(AI2) Information HTML transfer JSON, JS Objects, XML, etc.
structures
(AI3) Technology Java, DotNet, PHP, Cocoa, Java with Platform
Python and so on SDKs, HTML5

(AI4) Information Mainly on Server Side Client and Server Side
Store/Process


Mobile Changes
• Security Threats

Changing dimension Web Mobile
(T1) Entry points Structured Scattered and multiple

(T2) Dependencies Limited • Multiple technologies
• Information sources
• Protocols

(T3) Vulnerabilities Server side [Typical • Web services [Payloads]
injections] • Client side [Local Storage]

(T4) Exploitation Server side exploitation Both server and client side
exploitation


Black Review flow
Mobile and Device Security
Architecture Review •Insecure storage
•Insecure network Communication - Carriers network security & WiFi network attacks
•Unauthorized dialing & SMS
Scoping •UI Impersonation/Spoofing
•Activity monitoring and data retrieval
Server Side Application Footprinting •Sensitive data leakage
•Hardcoded passwords/keys
•Language issues
Mobile Application Footprinting •Timely application update
•Jail breaking/Physical device theft
•KeyBoard cache/ClipBoard issue
Application Discovery •Reading information from SQLite database
•Insecure Protocol Handler implementation
•And few other loopholes
Application Threat Modeling

Application Deployment Assessment
Application Security – Authentication,
Access Controls/Authorization, API misuse, Path traversal,
Application Enumeration and Profiling Sensitive information leakage, Error handling, Session management,
Protocol abuse, Input validations, Cross Site Scripting (XSS),
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Logic bypass, Insecure crypto,
Vulnerability Assessment
Denial of Services, Malicious Code Injection, SQL injection,
XPATH and LDAP injections, OS command injection,
Mitigation Strategies Parameter manipulations, Bruteforce, Buffer Overflow,
Format string, HTTP response splitting, HTTP replay,
XML injection, Canonicalization, Logging and auditing.
Reporting


Insecure Storage


Insecure Storage
• Why application needs to store data
– Ease of use for the user
– Popularity
– Competition
– Activity with single click
– Decrease Transaction time
– Post/Get information to/from Social Sites
• 9 out of 10 applications have this
vulnerability

Insecure Storage
• How attacker can gain access
– Wifi
– Default password after jail breaking (alpine)
– Physical Theft
– Temporary access to device


Insecure Storage
• What information we usually find
– Authentication Credentials
– Authorization tokens
– Financial Statements
– Credit card numbers
– Owner’s Information – Physical Address,
Name, Phone number
– Social Engineering Sites profile/habbits
– SQL Queries

Local file access


Insecure Network
Communication


Insecure Network Channel
• Easy to perform MiM attacks as Mobile
devices uses untrusted network i.e
open/Public WiFi, HotSpot, Carrier’s
Network
• Application deals with sensitive data i.e.
– Authentication credentials
– Authorization token
– PII Information (Privacy Violation) (Owner
Name, Phone number, UDID)

Insecure Network Channel
• Can sniff the traffic to get an access to
sensitive data
• SSL is the best way to secure
communication channel
• Common Issues
– Does not deprecate HTTP requests
– Allowing invalid certificates
– Sensitive information in GET requests


Session token


Unauthorized Dialing/SMS


Unauthorized Dialing/SMS
• Social Engineering using Mobile Devices
• Attacker plays with user’s mind
• User installs application
• Application sends premium rate SMS or a
premium rate phone call to unknown
number
• Used by Malware/Trojans


AndroidOS.FakePlayer
• August 2010
• Sends costly International SMS
• One SMS Costs – 25 USD (INR 1250)
• Application Sends SMS to –
– 3353 & 3354 numbers in Russia


GGTracker
• June 2010
• Another Application which sends
International SMS
• One SMS Costs – 40 USD (INR 2000)
• Application Sends Premium SMS to US
numbers


UI Impersonation


UI Impersonation
• Attack has been there since long
• On a mobile stack, known as UI
impersonation
• Other names are Phishing Attack,
ClickJacking
• Attacker plays with user’s mind and try to
impersonate as other user or other
application


UI Impersonation
• Victim looses credit card information or
authentication credentials or secret
• One application can create local PUSH
notification as it is created from apple
store
• Flow in review process of AppStore –
Anyone can name anything to their
application


NetFlix
• Oct -2011
• Steals users “netflix” account information
• Application shows error message to user
“Compatibility issues with the user’s
hardware” when user enters username
and password
• Once error message, application
uninstalls itself


Activity Monitoring


Activity Monitoring
• Sending a blind carbon copy of each
email to attacker
• Listening all phone calls
• Email contact list, pictures to attacker
• Read all emails stored on the device
• Usual intension of Spyware/Trojans


Activity Monitoring
• Attacker can monitor –
– Audio Files
– Video
– Pictures
– Location
– Contact List
– Call/Browser/SMS History
– Data files


Android.Pjapps
• Early 2010
• Steal/Change users information
• Application –
– Send and monitor incoming SMS messages
– Read/write to the user's browsing history and
bookmarks
– Install packages and Open Sockets
– Write to external storage
– Read the phone's state

System Modification


System Modification
• Application will attempt to modify system
configuration to hide itself (Historically this
is known as ROOTKIT)
• Configuration changes makes certain
attack possible i.e. –
– Modifying device proxy to get user’s activity
monitoring
– Configure BCC email sending to attacker


iKee – iPhone Worm
• “ikee” iPhone Worm
After infected by “ikee“
– Change root password iPhone look like this
– Change wallpaper to Ricky Martin.


PII Information Leakage


PII Information Leakage
• Application usually have access to user’s
private information i.e. Owner Name,
Location, Physical Address, AppID,
Phone Number
• This information needs to be handled very
carefully as per the law in some countries
• Storing this information in plain text is not
allowed in some countries


PII Information


Hardcoded Secrets


Hardcoded Secrets
• Easiest way for developer to solve
complex issues/functionality
• Attacker can get this information by either
reverse engineering application or by
checking local storage


Keychain Dumper


Language Specific Issues


Language Specific Issues
• Application in iOS are developed in
Objective-C language which is derived
from classic C language
• Along with this derivation, it also derives
security issues in C language i.e. overflow
attacks
• Using Dex2jar, source code of android
application can be accessed


dexdump
Convert dump .dex files:


SQL Injection in Local database


SQL Injection in Local database
• Most Mobile platforms uses SQLite as
database to store information on the
device
• Using any SQLite Database Browser, it is
possible to access database logs which
has queries and other sensitive database
information
• In case application is not filtering input,
SQL Injection on local database is
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Injection…


Information in Common
Services


Common Services
• KeyBoard, Clipboard are shared amongst
all the applications.
• Information stored in clipboard can be
accessed by all the application
• Sensitive information should not be
allowed to copy/paste in the application


Server Side Issues


Server Side Issues
• Most Application makes server side calls
to either web services or some other
component. Security of server side
component is equally important as client
side
• Controls to be tested on the server side –
Security Control Categories for Server
Side Application– Authentication, Access
Controls/Authorization, API misuse, Path
traversal, Sensitive information leakage,

Server Side Issues
Error handling, Session management,
Protocol abuse, Input validations, XSS,
CSRF, Logic bypass, Insecure crypto, DoS,
Malicious Code Injection, SQL injection,
XPATH and LDAP injections, OS command
injection, Parameter manipulations,
BruteForce, Buffer Overflow, HTTP
response splitting, HTTP replay, XML
injection, Canonicalization, Logging and
auditing.

Binary auditing


Using GDB


Mobile Top 10 - OWASP
• Insecure Data Storage
• Weak Server Side Controls
• Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
• Client Side Injection
• Poor Authorization and Authentication
• Improper Session Handling
• Security Decisions Via Untrusted Inputs
• Side Channel Data Leakage
• Broken Cryptography
• Sensitive Information Disclosure


Pen testing Check list
(iOS Applications)


• Fuzz all possible Inputs to the application
and validate output (Query String, POST
data, external HTML, RSS Feed or
database feed)
• Audit traditional memory unsafe methods
(strcpy, memcpy)
• Watch out for format string vulnerabilities
• Look for hard coded credentials / secrets


• Check network connection (grep for
NSURL, CFStream, NSStream)
• Check Database connection and queries
(grep SQL strings and SQLLite queries)
• Check only trusted certificate are allowed
(Look for setAllowsAnyHTTPSCertificate
and didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge)
• Check what is logged (grep NSLog)


• Check implementation of URLSchemes in
handleOpenURL
• Check what is stored in keychain
(kSecAttrAccessibleWhenUnlocked or
kSecAttrAccessibleAfterFirstUnlock
attributes when calling SecItemAdd or
SecItemUpdate) and the file system
(NSDataWritingFileProtectionComplete).


• Check how critical data is stored
(NSUserDefaults should not be used to
store critical data)
• Check Server Side controls
• Decrypt the binary and run strings to find
sensitive information


• Check whether application uses
UIWebView (How application loads HTLM
and where it is rendered from? Is URL
visible?)
• Check whether copy-paste functionality is
enabled in sensitive fields (PII fields)
• Install your favorite proxy to monitor +
fuzz web traffic
• Run the app using disassemble to monitor
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• Check whether critical data fields are
hidden in applicationWillTerminate and
applicationWillEnterBackground to
prevent screenshot caching
• Check how application handles PII
information


Conclusion/Questions

Hemil Shah
+91 99790 55100

Mobile Application Security – Effective methodology, efficient testing!

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