IOS Application Security Testing Cheat Sheet

IOS Application Security testing Cheat Sheet
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• 1 DRAFT CHEAT sheet-work in PROGRESS
• 2 Introduction
• 3 information gathering
• 4 Application Traffic analysis
• 5 Runtime Analysis
• 6 Insecure Data storage
• 7 Tools
• 8 related articles
• 9 Authors and Primary Editors
• Ten other cheatsheets

DRAFT CHEAT sheet-work in PROGRESSIntroduction

This cheat sheet provides a checklist of the tasks to being performed when testing an IOS application.

When assessing a mobile application several areas should is taken into Account:client software, the communication channel And the server side infrastructure.

Testing an IOS application usually requires a jailbroken device. (A device that isn't pose any restrictions on the software that can be installed on it.)

Information gathering

• Observe application Behavior
• Determine the application ' s data states (at rest, in transit or on display) and sensitivity
• Identify Access Methods
• Identify what frameworks is in use
• Identify Server side APIs that is in use
• Identify What protocols is in use
• Identify other applications or services with which the application interacts
• Decrypt AppStore binaries:the. IPA is decrypted at runtime by the kernel ' s Mach loader. Cydia has several applications available:crackulous, appcrack and clutch. Also, you can use GDB. The "cryptid" field of the Lc_encryption_info identifies if the application is encrypted or not. Use Otool–l <app name> | Grep–a 4 Lc_encryption_info
• Determine the architecture the application was compiled for:otool–f <app name> or Lipo-info <app>.
• Get information about what functions, classes and methods is referenced in the application and in the dynamically loaded Libraries. Use nm <app name>
• List the dynamic dependencies. Use Otool–l <app name>
• Dump the load commands for the application. Use Otool–l <app name>
• Dump the runtime information from the compiled application. Identify each class compiled to the program and its associated methods, instance variables and properties. Use Class-dump-z <app name>. That can is put that into a. h file which can is used later to create hooks for method swizzling or to simply make the Met Hods of the app easier to read.
• Dump the keychain using Dump_keychain to reveal application specific credentials and passwords if stored in the keychain.

Determine the security features in place:

• Locate the pie (Position Independent executable)-an app compiled without PIE (using the "–fpie–pie" flag) would load the Executable at a fixed address. Check this using the COMMAND:OTOOL–HV <app name>
• Stack smashing protection-specify The–fstack-protector-all compiler flag. A "Canary" is placed on the stack to protect the saved base pointer, saved instruction pointer and function arguments. It would be verified upon the function return to see if it had been overwritten. Check this using:otool–i–v <app name> | grep stack. If the application is compiled with the stack smashing protection, undefined symbols would be present: "___stack_chk_fa Il "and" ___stack_chk_guard ".

Application Traffic analysis

• Analyze error Messages
• Analyze cacheable Information
• Transport Layer Security (TLS version; Nsurlrequest object)
• Attack XML Processors
• SQL Injection
• Privacy issues (sensitive information disclosure)
• Improper session Handling
• Decisions via untrusted inputs
• Broken cryptography
• unmanaged code
• URL schemes
• Push Notifications
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Session Management
• Data Storage
• Data validation (input, Output)
• Transport Layer Protection–are The certificates validated, does the application implement Certificate pinning
• Denial of Service
• Business logic
• UDID or MAC ID usage (privacy concerns)

Runtime Analysis

• disassemble the application (GDB)
• Analyze File system interaction
• Use the. h file generated With Class-dump-z to create a method swizzling hooks of some interesting methods to either examine the data as it flow thro Ugh or create a "stealer" app.
• Analyze the application with a debugger (GDB): Inspecting objects in memory and calling functions and methods; Replaci Ng variables and methods at runtime.
• investigate Cfstream and Nsstream
• investigate protocol handlers (Application:openurl-validates the source application that instantiated the URL Reque ST) for Example:try to reconfigure the default landing page for the application using a malicious iframe.
• Buffer overflows and memory corruption
• Client Side Injection
• Runtime Injections
• have access to sources, test the memory by using Xcode schemes

insecure data storage

• Investigate log files (plugging the device in and pulling down logs with Xcode organizer)
• Insecure data storage in Application Folder (Var/mobile/applications), caches, in backups (ITunes)
• Investigate custom created files
• Analyze Sqllite Database
• Investigate Property List Files
• Investigate file Caching
• Insecure data storage in keyboard cache
• Investigate cookies.binarycookies
• Analyze IOS Keychain (/private/var/keychains/keychain-2.db) –when It's accessible and what information it contains; Data stored in the keychain can is only accessible if the attacker have physical access to the device.
• Check for sensitive information in snapshots
• Audit data protection of files and keychain entries (to determine when a keychain item should is readable by an applicatio n Check the Data Protection Accessibility constants)

Tools

Tool	Link	Description
Mallory Proxy	http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/mallory/	Proxy for Binary protocols
Charles/burp Proxy	http://www.charlesproxy.com/; http://www.portswigger.net/burp/	Proxy for HTTP and HTTPS
OpenSSH	http://www.openssh.com/	Connect to the IPhone remotely over SSH
Sqlite3	http://www.sqlite.org/	Sqlite Database Client
GNU Debugger	http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/	For run time analysis & Reverse engineering
Syslogd	https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/darwin/reference/manpages/man8/syslogd.8.html	View IPhone Logs
Tcpdump	http://www.tcpdump.org/	Capture network traffic on phone
Otool	http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/darwin/reference/manpages/man1/otool.1.html	Odcctools:otool–object File Displaying tool
Cycript	http://www.cycript.org/	A language designed to interact with OBJECTIVE-C classes
SSL Kill Switch	Https://github.com/iSECPartners/ios-ssl-kill-switch	Blackbox tool to disable SSL Certificate validation-including certificate pinning in Nsurl
Plutil	http://scw.us/iPhone/plutil/	To view Plist files
Nm		Analysis tool to display the symbol table, which includes names of functions and methods, as well as their load addresses.
Sysctl	https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/darwin/reference/manpages/man8/sysctl.8.html	A utility to read and change kernel state variables
Dump_keychain	Https://github.com/emonti/iOS_app_re_tools	A utility to dump the keychain
Filemon	Http://www.newosxbook.com/files/filemon.iOS	Monitor Realtime IOS File system
Filedp	http://www.securitylearn.net/2012/10/18/extracting-data-protection-class-from-files-on-ios/	Audits data protection of files
Binarycookiereader	http://securitylearn.net/wp-content/uploads/tools/iOS/BinaryCookieReader.py	Read cookies.binarycookies Files
Lsof ARM Binary	Https://github.com/u35tpus/iosrep/tree/master/lsof	List of all open files and the processes that opened them
Lsock ARM Binary	Http://www.newosxbook.com/index.php?page=downloads	Monitor socket connections
Ponydebugger injected	https://github.com/dtrukr/PonyDebuggerInjected	Injected via CYCRIPT to enable remote debugging
Weak Class Dump	Https://raw.github.com/limneos/weak_classdump/master/weak_classdump.cy	Injected via Cycript to do class-dump (if you cant un-encrypt the binary)
TrustMe	Https://github.com/intrepidusgroup/trustme	Lower level tool to disable SSL Certificate validation-including certificate pinning (for everything else but Nsurl)
MAC robber	http://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber/download.php	C Code, Forensic tool for imaging filesystems and producing a timeline
Usbmux Proxy	Https://github.com/st3fan/usbmux-proxy	Command line tool to connect local TCP port sto ports on a iPhone or iPod Touch device over USB.
IFunBox	http://www.i-funbox.com/	Filesystem access (no jailbreak needed), Usbmux tunneler,. IPA installer
Inalyzer	https://appsec-labs.com/iNalyzer/	IOS Penetration Testing Framework
Removepie	Https://github.com/peterfillmore/removePIE	Disables ASLR of an application
Snoop-it	https://code.google.com/p/snoop-it/	A tool to assist security assessments and dynamic analysis of IOS Apps, includes runtime views of obj-c classes and method s, and options to modify those values
Idb	Https://github.com/dmayer/idb	A GUI (and cmdline) tool to simplify some common tasks for IOS pentesting and.
Damn Vulnerable IOS Application	http://damnvulnerableiosapp.com/	A purposefully vulnerable iOS application for Learning iOS application assessment skills.
Introspy	Https://github.com/iSECPartners/Introspy-iOS	A Security Profiling tool revolved around hooking security based IOS APIs and logging their output for security analysis

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IOS Application Security Testing Cheat Sheet