Android Hacker's Handbook

The first comprehensive guide to discovering and preventing
attacks on the Android OS

As the Android operating system continues to increase its share
of the smartphone market, smartphone hacking remains a growing
threat. Written by experts who rank among the world's foremost
Android security researchers, this book presents vulnerability
discovery, analysis, and exploitation tools for the good guys.
Following a detailed explanation of how the Android OS works and
its overall security architecture, the authors examine how
vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploits developed for
various system components, preparing you to defend against
them.

If you are a mobile device administrator, security researcher,
Android app developer, or consultant responsible for evaluating
Android security, you will find this guide is essential to your
toolbox.

• A crack team of leading Android security researchers explain
  Android security risks, security design and architecture, rooting,
  fuzz testing, and vulnerability analysis

• Covers Android application building blocks and security as well
  as debugging and auditing Android apps

• Prepares mobile device administrators, security researchers,
  Android app developers, and security consultants to defend Android
  systems against attack

Android Hacker's Handbook is the first comprehensive
resource for IT professionals charged with smartphone
security.

Autorentext

JOSHUA J. DRAKE is a Director of Research Science at
Accuvant LABS.

PAU OLIVA FORA is a Mobile Security Engineer with
viaForensics.

ZACH LANIER is a Senior Security Researcher at Duo
Security.

COLLIN MULLINER is a postdoctoral researcher at
Northeastern University.

STEPHEN A. RIDLEY is a Principal Researcher with
Xipiter.

GEORG WICHERSKI is a Senior Security Researcher with
CrowdStrike.

Zusammenfassung

The first comprehensive guide to discovering and preventing attacks on the Android OS

As the Android operating system continues to increase its share of the smartphone market, smartphone hacking remains a growing threat. Written by experts who rank among the world's foremost Android security researchers, this book presents vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation tools for the good guys. Following a detailed explanation of how the Android OS works and its overall security architecture, the authors examine how vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploits developed for various system components, preparing you to defend against them.

If you are a mobile device administrator, security researcher, Android app developer, or consultant responsible for evaluating Android security, you will find this guide is essential to your toolbox.

• A crack team of leading Android security researchers explain Android security risks, security design and architecture, rooting, fuzz testing, and vulnerability analysis
• Covers Android application building blocks and security as well as debugging and auditing Android apps
• Prepares mobile device administrators, security researchers, Android app developers, and security consultants to defend Android systems against attack Android Hacker's Handbook is the first comprehensive resource for IT professionals charged with smartphone security.

Inhalt

Introduction xxv

Chapter 1 Looking at the Ecosystem 1

Understanding Android's Roots 1

Company History 2

Version History 2

Examining the Device Pool 4

Open Source, Mostly 7

Understanding Android Stakeholders 7

Google 8

Hardware Vendors 10

Carriers 12

Developers 13

Users 14

Grasping Ecosystem Complexities 15

Fragmentation 16

Compatibility 17

Update Issues 18

Security versus Openness 21

Public Disclosures 22

Summary 23

Chapter 2 Android Security Design and Architecture 25

Understanding Android System Architecture 25

Understanding Security Boundaries and Enforcement 27

Android's Sandbox 27

Android Permissions 30

Looking Closer at the Layers 34

Android Applications 34

The Android Framework 39

The Dalvik Virtual Machine 40

User-Space Native Code 41

The Kernel 49

Complex Security, Complex Exploits 55

Summary 56

Chapter 3 Rooting Your Device 57

Understanding the Partition Layout 58

Determining the Partition Layout 59

Understanding the Boot Process 60

Accessing Download Mode 61

Locked and Unlocked Boot Loaders 62

Stock and Custom Recovery Images 63

Rooting with an Unlocked Boot Loader 65

Rooting with a Locked Boot Loader 68

Gaining Root on a Booted System 69

NAND Locks, Temporary Root, and Permanent Root 70

Persisting a Soft Root 71

History of Known Attacks 73

Kernel: Wunderbar/asroot 73

Recovery: Volez 74

Udev: Exploid 74

Adbd: RageAgainstTheCage 75

Zygote: Zimperlich and Zysploit 75

Ashmem: KillingInTheNameOf and psneuter 76

Vold: GingerBreak 76

PowerVR: levitator 77

Libsysutils: zergRush 78

Kernel: mempodroid 78

File Permission and Symbolic LinkRelated Attacks 79

Adb Restore Race Condition 79

Exynos4: exynos-abuse 80

Diag: lit / diaggetroot 81

Summary 81

Chapter 4 Reviewing Application Security 83

Common Issues 83

App Permission Issues 84

Insecure Transmission of Sensitive Data 86

Insecure Data Storage 87

Information Leakage Through Logs 88

Unsecured IPC Endpoints 89

Case Study: Mobile Security App 91

Profiling 91

Static Analysis 93

Dynamic Analysis 109

Attack 117

Case Study: SIP Client 120

Enter Drozer 121

Discovery 121

Snarfing 122

Injection 124

Summary 126

Chapter 5 Understanding Android's Attack Surface 129

An Attack Terminology Primer 130

Attack Vectors 130

Attack Surfaces 131

Classifying Attack Surfaces 133

Surface Properties 133

Classification Decisions 134

Remote Attack Surfaces 134

Networking Concepts 134

Networking Stacks 139

Exposed Network Services 140

Mobile Technologies 142

Client-side Attack Surface 143

Google Infrastructure 148

Physical Adjacency 154

Wireless Communications 154

Other Technologies 161

Local Attack Surfaces 161

Exploring the File System 162

Finding Other Local Attack Surfaces 163

Physical Attack Surfaces 168

Dismantling Devices 169

USB 169

Other Physical Attack Surfaces 173

Third-Party Modifications 174

Summary 174

Chapter 6 Finding Vulnerabilities with Fuzz Testing 177 Fuzzing Backg...