Dissecting Android Apps

Dissecting Android Apps

Openness of Android makes it very delicious target for the exploiters, reverse engineers. Android offers a very nice advantages for malicious actors which are not available in compare to its rival iOS. It is possible to peek into the source code when it comes to Android (Yes, I am talking about AOSP) and modify the OS and all the things come along according to your taste. Even in retail devices, It is possible to tamper with the system without much hassle and headache. ...

July 26, 2022 · 7 min · SlothieSmooth
Android Webview Vulnerability

Exploiting Android WebViews

Overview Webview in Android is a system component that runs on chromium engine that allows Android apps to display web view content. There are plenty of apps out there that simply wraps web pages or web content which is stored in app. Most of the cross-platform apps uses Webview to provide easy to use interface for their users. Now coming to more technical side of the things, being a developer you can debug your Webview with ADB. Android web view has debugging feature flag, that allows you to use the ADB remote debugging extension for chrome to debug the contents of the Webview. ...

October 30, 2021 · 3 min · SlothieSmooth