sniffing mach messages

Sniffing Mach Messages

Mikhail SosonkinSlides: http://www.slideshare.net/MikhailSosonkin

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Challenge Review: loading Mach-O from memory

- Understand injectdyld_file.c- Figure out how to dynamically load a dylib- Can use injectdyld_file.c as a base

- Hint: you will need to read the DYLD sourcecode.

Hint: you will need to read the DYLD sourcecode.ImageLoader* loadFromMemory(const uint8_t* mem, uint64_t len, const char* moduleName){

// if fat wrapper, find usable sub-fileconst fat_header* memStartAsFat = (fat_header*)mem;uint64_t fileOffset = 0;uint64_t fileLength = len;if ( memStartAsFat->magic == OSSwapBigToHostInt32(FAT_MAGIC) ) {

if ( fatFindBest(memStartAsFat, &fileOffset, &fileLength) ) {mem = &mem[fileOffset];len = fileLength;

dyld.cpp, not exported.

Load from memory

Make part of process

Parse into class object

Getting started with iOS

- Get iPhone 5s- Swappa

- Apply Jailbreak- Install OpenSSH via Cydia- Use tcprelay to SSH over USB

- Start exploring- Debugserver

- Objective-c: Phrack 0x42- http://phrack.org/issues/66/4.html

- https://github.com/iosre/iOSAppReverseEngineering- https://nabla-c0d3.github.io/blog/2014/12/30/tcprelay-multiple-devices/

Pangu TaiG

Before we begin...

Let’s cover some basics.

ARM64 Registers

31 General purpose registers

X0 … X30 or W0 … W30

X31 - (zr) The Zero register

X30 - (lr) Procedure Link Register (RIP)

X29 - (fp) Frame pointer (RBP)

X18 - Reserved on iOS

ARM64 Instructions

Conditional Branches

B.EQ, B.NE, TBNZ (Test bit and Branch if Nonzero), etc.

Unconditional Branches

B, RET, SVC

Conditional Select

CSEL W9, W9, W10, EQ

“W9 = EQ?W9:W10”

Calling Convention

On ARM64:

X0 … X8 Contain function parameters

X16 has the system call number

Positive for Posix

Negative for Mach Ports

0x80000000 for thread_set_self

SVC 0x80; jumps to kernel

Syscall numbers

OSX:

0x01000000 - mach calls

0x02000000 - Posix

0x03000003 - pthread_set_self

IOS

0x00000000 and below - mach calls

0x00000000 and above - Posix

0x80000000 - pthread_set_self

More details

See the iOS ABI Function Call Guide

What are Mach Messages?

The OS X/iOS IPC mechanism

Auditing and Exploiting Apple IPC by Ian Beer

The OS X/iOS IPC mechanism

● Message based communication○ Ports -> sockets○ Port numbers are dynamically assigned○ Port numbers are process specific

● Mechanism for sandbox enforcement○ Network comms go through mach ports○ Send messages to a broker to perform actions

The messages

Sending a message

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/libsyscall/mach/mach_msg.c

Finding ports

● Launchd - the DNS of Mach Messages.○ Bootstrap.h

■ bootstrap_register(mach_port_t bp, name_t service_name, mach_port_t sp);

■ kern_return_t bootstrap_look_up(mach_port_t bp,const name_t service_name,mach_port_t *sp);

○ Rocketbootstrap - for jailbreaks■ kern_return_t rocketbootstrap_look_up(

mach_port_t bp,const name_t service_name,mach_port_t *sp);

Let’s observe them!

1. Allocate a page - a jump page

2. Set mach_msg readable and writable

3. Copy preamble bytes from mach_msg

4. Check for branch instructions in preamble

5. Modify mach_msg preamble

6. Set jump page to readable and executable

7. Set mach_msg readable and executable

Objc_Trace

Call Sequence

Hook Steps

Tracing ObjC messages

Basic Process

1. Attach with LLDB2. Breakpoint on Bootstrap Lookups3. Breakpoint on mach_msg and friends4. Run the application and collect the messages5. Post process the results

I prefer to automate this!

Attaching to a process

Create an LLDB command

In ~/.lldbinit:

“Let’s look at some code!”

mach_sniff.py

LLDB Python Reference

First ret is the end of function

1. Break point of symbol bootstrap_look_up2 (beginning of function)a. Expecting only one location

2. Set script function to executea. Python function rocketbootstrap_look_up

3. Find the end of functiona. First ret instruction within 100 instructionb. Use IDAPro reverse engineering to figure this one outc. Very specific to this function

4. Breakpoint on end of function5. Set script function to execute

a. Call python script function rocketbootstrap_look_up_end

Get the port name, 2nd argument

Record the state for return of the function

What’s the initial state of the call?

What the port number?

Once discovered, start sniffing!

Message to be sent

Message response

“Let’s look at some output!”

Events from libsimulatetouch

The header

Message payload

Custom payload

Parsed using mach_whale.py

The Challenge

“Port LLDB scripts to MacOS and

identify various uses of mach messages”

“Try doing the same thing using Frida”

If you don’t have a mac challenge: Get a MacOS VM running on a windows host. Beware of malware!

Where to learn about security?

- iOS Reverse Engineering Book- https://seccasts.com/- http://www.opensecuritytraining.info/- https://www.corelan.be- youtube for conference- Security meetups

- Just practice- Read/follow walkthroughs

- follow the reddits:- netsec- reverseengineering- malware- lowlevel- blackhat- securityCTF- rootkit- vrd

Thank you!

Mikhail Sosonkin

mikhail@synack.com

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