Tag: instrumentation

Hardware key attestation lets an Android app prove to its backend that a key lives in secure hardware on a locked, verified device. It is also the wall that stops a security analyst working on a rooted phone. This article opens the mechanism from the analyst's chair, from the certificate chain and the attestation extension down to the root of trust, then shows a simple bypass that never touches the secure hardware. We relay the attestation to a clean device and splice a genuine chain back into the target app with a Frida hook. A companion repository ships the validation backend, the demo apps and the instrumentation, so the whole setup can be run and inspected rather than taken on faith.

In this blog, we present how QBDI and TritonDSE can be used to attack a complex C++ binary implementing a VM.

This blog post introduces QBDL (QuarkslaB Dynamic Loader) as well as a use case which runs NVIDIA NGX SDK under Linux. You can take a look at the project on Github: https://github.com/quarkslab/QBDL .

This article aims to presentby analyzing an obfuscated binary using QBDI, thus showcasing some of the nice features it offers. This blog post was written last year during my internship at Quarkslab, where I discovered the wonderful (but not so simple) world of Dynamic Binary Instrumentation.