hacktricks/mobile-apps-pentesting/android-app-pentesting/frida-tutorial/frida-tutorial-1.md

# Frida Tutorial 1

**From**: [https://medium.com/infosec-adventures/introduction-to-frida-5a3f51595ca1](https://medium.com/infosec-adventures/introduction-to-frida-5a3f51595ca1)  
**APK**: [https://github.com/t0thkr1s/frida-demo/releases](https://github.com/t0thkr1s/frida-demo/releases)  
**Source Code**: [https://github.com/t0thkr1s/frida-demo](https://github.com/t0thkr1s/frida-demo)

## Python

Frida allows you to **insert JavaScript code** inside functions of a running application. But you can use **python** to **call** the hooks and even to **interact** with the **hooks**.

This is a easy python script that you can use with all the proposed examples in this tutorial:

```python
#hooking.py
import frida, sys

with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as f:
        jscode = f.read()
process = frida.get_usb_device().attach('infosecadventures.fridademo')
script = process.create_script(jscode)
print('[ * ] Running Frida Demo application')
script.load()
sys.stdin.read()
```

Call the script:

```bash
python hooking.py <hookN.js>
```

It is useful to know how to use python with frida, but for this examples you could also call directly Frida using command line frida tools:

```text
frida -U --no-pause -l hookN.js -f infosecadventures.fridademo
```

## Hook 1 - Boolean Bypass

Here you can see how to **hook** a **boolean** method \(_checkPin_\) from the class: _infosecadventures.fridademo.utils.PinUtil_

```javascript
//hook1.js
Java.perform(function() {
 console.log("[ * ] Starting implementation override...")
 var MainActivity = Java.use("infosecadventures.fridademo.utils.PinUtil");
 MainActivity.checkPin.implementation = function(pin){
     console.log("[ + ] PIN check successfully bypassed!")
     return true;
 }
});
```

```text
python hooking.py hook1.js
```

Mirar: La funcion recibe como parametro un String, no hace falta overload?

## Hook 2 - Function Bruteforce

### Non-Static Function

If you want to call a non-static function of a class, you **first need a instance** of that class. Then, you can use that instance to call the function.  
To do so, you could **find and existing instance** and use it:

```javascript
Java.perform(function() {
 console.log("[ * ] Starting PIN Brute-force, please wait...");
 Java.choose("infosecadventures.fridademo.utils.PinUtil", {
  onMatch: function(instance) {
   console.log("[ * ] Instance found in memory: " + instance);
   for(var i = 1000; i < 9999; i++){
    if(instance.checkPin(i + "") == true){
     console.log("[ + ] Found correct PIN: " + i);
     break;
    }
   }
  },
  onComplete: function() { }
 });
});
```

In this case this is not working as there isn't any instance and the function is Static

### Static Function

If the function is static, you could just call it:

```javascript
//hook2.js
Java.perform(function () {
    console.log("[ * ] Starting PIN Brute-force, please wait...")
    var PinUtil = Java.use("infosecadventures.fridademo.utils.PinUtil");
 
    for(var i=1000; i < 9999; i++)
    {
        if(PinUtil.checkPin(i+"") == true){
            console.log("[ + ] Found correct PIN: " + i);
        }
    }
});
```

## Hook 3 - Retrieving arguments and return value

You could hook a function and make it **print** the value of the **passed arguments** and the value of the **return value:**

```javascript
//hook3.js
Java.perform(function() {
 console.log("[ * ] Starting implementation override...")
  
 var EncryptionUtil = Java.use("infosecadventures.fridademo.utils.EncryptionUtil");
 EncryptionUtil.encrypt.implementation = function(key, value){
     console.log("Key: " + key);
     console.log("Value: " + value);
     var encrypted_ret = this.encrypt(key, value); //Call the original function
     console.log("Encrypted value: " + encrypted_ret);
     return encrypted_ret;
 }
});
```

## Important

In this tutorial you have hooked methods using the name of the mathod and _.implementation_. But if there were **more than one method** with the same name, you will need to **specify the method** that you want to hook **indicating the type of the arguments**.

You can see that in [the next tutorial](frida-tutorial-2.md).