{"id":16224,"date":"2021-08-19T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/?p=16224"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:53:08","slug":"attacking-android-components-content-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/attacking-android-components-content-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacking Android Components &#8211; Content Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/varutra-1a3b6.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Attacking-Android-Components-Content-Providers-1024x535.png\"  class=\"sh-overlay-item sh-table-cell ls-is-cached lazyloaded\" data-rel=\"lightcase\" title=\"Attacking Android Components Content Providers - Varutra Consulting\"><br \/>\nIn this blog, I\u2019ll be showing you how we can exploit the Attacking Android Components based content providers vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What are Content Providers and Why it is used:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Content Provider components visualize access to shared data resources, like local or remote databases. They all have a unique URI for identification.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content Provider component supplies data from one application to another application on request.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ll be able to store the data in the file system, an SQLite database, on the web, or any other persistent storage location your app can access.<\/li>\n<li>Through the content provider, other apps can query or even modify the data (if the content provider allows it).<\/li>\n<li>It is useful in cases when an app wants to share data with another app.<\/li>\n<li>It is much similar to databases and has four methods.<\/li>\n<li>insert()<\/li>\n<li>update()<\/li>\n<li>delete()<\/li>\n<li>query()<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more clarification about content providers follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/guide\/topics\/providers\/content-provider-basics#java\">Content Provider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Content-Provider-Flow.png\" alt=\"Attacking Android Components Content Provider Flow\" width=\"537\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Content-Provider-Flow.png 537w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Content-Provider-Flow-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 1: Content Provider Flow<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m using vulnerable <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mwrlabs\/drozer\/releases\/download\/2.3.4\/sieve.apk\">Sieve.APK<\/a> for demonstration purposes. To exploit this vulnerability we need to install drozer into your both devices (Mobile as well as Local System).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is Drozer:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Drozer (formerly Mercury) is the leading security testing framework for Android. It provides tools to help you use, share, and understand public android exploits. It helps you to deploy a Drozer Agent to a device through exploitation or social engineering. We can read more about this here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/drozer-android-security-assessment-framework\/\">Drozer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get started,<\/p>\n<p>First, we have to decompile this apkto analyze code android manifest.xml file into that we have to check provider exported attributes and URI <strong>(android:name=\u201dDBContentProvider\u201d<\/strong> and\u00a0 <strong>android:exported=\u201dtrue\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16233 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Android-Manifest.png\" alt=\"Android Manifest\" width=\"559\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Android-Manifest.png 559w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Android-Manifest-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 2: Android Manifest.XML<\/p>\n<p>Run drozer after configuring both the devices to find the attack surface parameter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16230 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Drozer-attack-surface.png\" alt=\"Drozer attack surface\" width=\"559\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Drozer-attack-surface.png 559w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Drozer-attack-surface-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 3: Drozer attack surface<\/p>\n<p>So, you can see there are two content providers exported found. Now we must check this into the source code of this application.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16232 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Source-code-of-DB-Content-Provider.png\" alt=\"Source code of DB Content Provider\" width=\"559\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Source-code-of-DB-Content-Provider.png 559w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Source-code-of-DB-Content-Provider-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 4: Source code of DBContentProvider<\/p>\n<p>We can see that in the code there are two URIS used in the application:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>(&#8220;content:\/\/com.mwr.example.sieve.DBContentProvider\/Keys&#8221;)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>(&#8220;content:\/\/com.mwr.example.sieve.DBContentProvider\/Passwords&#8221;)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s try to query each of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16228 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DB-Content-Provider-or-Keys.png\" alt=\"DB Content Provider or Keys\" width=\"559\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DB-Content-Provider-or-Keys.png 559w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DB-Content-Provider-or-Keys-300x44.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 5: DBContentProvider\/Keys<\/p>\n<p>So now you can see in the screenshot we have the master password and pin of the App which manages other Apps password.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s try to change the value of Password from <strong>\u201c12345678912345test\u201d<\/strong> to <strong>\u201c12345678912345content\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Changing-Password-Done.png\" alt=\"Changing Password Done\" width=\"560\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Changing-Password-Done.png 560w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Changing-Password-Done-300x27.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 6: Changing Password Done<\/p>\n<p>Now you can see in the screenshot password is updated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16231 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Password-Updated.png\" alt=\"Password Updated\" width=\"559\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Password-Updated.png 559w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Password-Updated-300x42.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 7: Password Updated<\/p>\n<p>We can also access the password saved in this Password Manager App by query content:\/\/com.mwr.example.sieve.DBContentProvider\/Passwords exported URI.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16229 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DB-Content-Provider-or-Passwords.png\" alt=\"DB Content Provider or Passwords\" width=\"560\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DB-Content-Provider-or-Passwords.png 560w, https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DB-Content-Provider-or-Passwords-300x39.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fig 8: DBContentProvider\/Passwords<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to Mitigate Attacking Android Components &#8211; Content Providers :<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are using the content provider just for your app\u2019s usage then you should set it to be android:exported=false, in the android manifest. If you are intentionally exporting the content provider then you should also specify one or more permissions for reading and writing data.<\/li>\n<li>If you are using a content provider for sharing data between only your own apps, it is preferable to use the android: protection level attribute set to \u201csignature\u201d protection.<\/li>\n<li>When accessing a content provider, use parameterized query methods such as query(), update(), and delete() to avoid potential SQL injection from untrusted sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Author,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rituraj Vishwakarma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attack &amp; Pentest Team<\/p>\n<p>Varutra Consulting Pvt. 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