DVHMA - Damn Vulnerable Hybrid Mobile App (For Android) That Intentionally Contains Vulnerabilities - Hacking Land

Damn Vulnerable Hybrid Mobile App (DVHMA) is an hybrid mobile app (for Android) that intentionally contains vulnerabilities. Its purpose is to enable security professionals to test their tools and techniques legally, help developers better understand the common pitfalls in developing hybrid mobile apps securely.

Motivation and Scope

This app is developed to study pitfalls in developing hybrid apps, e.g., using Apache Cordova or SAP Kapsel, securely. Currently, the main focus is to develop a deeper understanding of injection vulnerabilities that exploit the JavaScript to Java bridge.

Installation

Prerequisites
We assume that the

Android SDK (https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html) and
Apache Cordova (https://cordova.apache.org/), version 6.3.0 or later are installed.

Moreover, we assume a basic familiarity with the build system of Apache Cordova.

Building DVHMA

Setting Environment Variables

export ANDROID_HOME=<Android SDK Installation Directory>
 export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH
 export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH

Compiling DVHMA

cd DVHMA-Featherweight
 cordova plugin add ../plugins/DVHMA-Storage
 cordova plugin add ../plugins/DVHMA-WebIntent 
 cordova platform add android
 cordova compile android

Running DVHMA in an Emulator

cordova run android

Team Members
The development of this application started as part of the project ZertApps. ZertApps was a collaborative research project funded by the German Ministry for Research and Education. It is now developed and maintained by the Software Assurance & Security Research Team at The University of Sheffield, UK.

The core developers of DVHMA are:

Publications

Achim D. Brucker and Michael Herzberg. On the Static Analysis of Hybrid Mobile Apps: A Report on the State of Apache Cordova Nation. In International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9639), pages 72-88, Springer-Verlag, 2016. https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/abstract/brucker.ea-cordova-security-2016 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30806-7_5

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