Intercept HTTPS on non-rooted Android devices | HackTheBox - Anchored

Published: 17 September 2022
on channel: 0xbro

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Anchored is an easy difficulty Android mobile challenge from HackTheBox.
In this video, we reverse engineer and patch an APK to bypass certificate pinning and be able to intercept application requests on non-rooted devices.

=== Timestamp ===
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - Introducing the challenge
01:33 - Decompiling the APK using APKTool and analyzing the AndroidManifest.xml file
01:57 - Testing the application behavior on rooted and non-rooted devices
02:49 - Set up the environment and try to intercept HTTPS requests
03:15 - Decompiling the APK using bytecode viewer and analyzing the Java source code
04:14 - Documenting about the network_security_config.xml file
05:25 - Patching the APK with the edited network_security_config.xml file
06:04 - Testing the patched APK and intercepting HTTPS traffic
06:30 - Conclusions

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External resources:
https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/interce...
https://httptoolkit.tech/docs/guides/...
https://developer.android.com/trainin...
https://lief-project.github.io/doc/la...
https://koz.io/using-frida-on-android...

Tags:
#CertificatePinning #HackTheBox #AndroidHacking #Pinned #SSLUnpinning #AndroidCTF

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