fake-linker

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Project description

Modify Android linker to provide loading module and plt hook features.Please check the detailed principle modify linker to implement plt hook

Supported Android

Android version: Android 5.0 ~ Android 11+. Support instructions: x86, x86_64, arm, arm64

Build

1. Source build

Add it as an Android Library to the Android project,the main module adds its dependencies.Change build.gradle buildApi variable,compile the specified Api level.

2. Use build library

Download the latest version of the binary file, decompress it, add the aar file as a library to the project dependencies, and import the header file under the include directory into the Hook module for use.

3. Build configuration

Refer to FakeXposed configuration scripts build.py and build.gradle

Hook module development

1. Copy the export header file (the source code is in the export directory under the cpp directory) to the Hook module.
2. Implement the fake_load_library_init export function in linker_export.h.
3. Call various implementation methods, check the definition of FakeLinker in linker_export.h.
4. Normally implement Hook methods such as: open, dlopen, dlsym method, etc., the method must be exported.
5. Hook module distinguishes Android7.0 or lower (no namespace, soinfo handle), Android7.0 and above (namespace, soinfo handle).

Java initialization

1. Install the library correctly to the specified location, install the fake-linker and Hook modules to the path that the application has access to, such as: /data/local/tmp, you can call the system method to load directly. The module has integrated the installation executable file, and the Java layer calls the method under the FileInstaller class to install, and various different platform architectures have been processed inside.
2. Set the fake-linker module through FileInstaller. The Hook module requires different selinux and uid, gid file attributes.
3. Load and initialize the fake-linker module, call the FakeLinker.initFakeLinker method, internally load the Hook module and call back the fake_load_library_init method to complete the module initialization.

Other description

1. The project is different from directly setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. Direct setting usually cannot intercept the dlsym method, because once intercepted, you need to implement the search symbol yourself and the higher version has the caller address restriction, and the module passes the transfer module fake- linker provides calling dlsym method, so Hook module can intercept dlsym and provide more Linker related functions.
2. Each version of Android Linker has corresponding modifications, so the module depends on the api level of the phone, and the corresponding modules can be loaded at different levels. When loading manually, you need to pay attention to Api 25 directly use the library of Api 24

Note

1. When hooking the system process, please do a good job of deleting the backup to avoid the situation that the system process is dead and cannot be booted due to an error.
2. Relocate the loaded module according to the module loading time.

Usage example

1. Set the Hook module as the global library remote->CallCommonFunction(kCFAddSoinfoToGlobal, kSPAddress, nullptr, kSPNull, nullptr, &error_code);.
2. Relocate some loaded modules remote->CallCommonFunction(kCFCallManualRelinks, kSPAddress, nullptr, kSPNames, libs, &error_code);.

   static const FakeLinker *remote;
   // Hook the jni function RegisterNatives
   static jint HookJniRegisterNatives(JNIEnv *env, jclass c, const JNINativeMethod *methods, jint nMethods) {
       LOG("start register native function %p", __builtin_return_address(0));
       jint ret = original_functions->RegisterNatives(env, c, methods, nMethods);
       if (ret != JNI_ERR && !original_functions->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
           std::string cls = JNIHelper::GetClassName(env, c);
           for (int i = 0; i < nMethods; ++i) {
               LOG("native register class: %s, method name: %s, function signature: %s, register address: %p", cls.c_str(), methods[i].name, methods[i].signature, methods[i].fnPtr);
           }
       }
       return ret;
   }
   
   static void InitHook() {
       int error_code;
       // Add this hook module to the global module, which will affect all modules loaded later
       remote->CallCommonFunction(kCFAddSoinfoToGlobal, kSPAddress, nullptr, kSPNull, nullptr, &error_code);
        if (error_code != kErrorNo) {
           LOGE("init global soinfo error, error code: %x", error_code);
           return;
       }
       VarArray<const char *> *libs;
       // Re-parse the import table of the following modules, because the following modules have been loaded before we have loaded them, and all re-links make their symbolic links to our Hook method
       // The java system code also mainly uses the following libraries, and relinking also means the core import function of Hook's java
       libs = VaargToVarArray<const char *>(5, "libjavacore.so", "libnativehelper.so", "libnativeloader.so", "libart.so", "libopenjdk.so");
       remote->CallCommonFunction(kCFCallManualRelinks, kSPAddress, nullptr, kSPNames, libs, &error_code);
       // Hook JNI interface
       remote_->HookJniNative(offsetof(JNINativeInterface, RegisterNatives), (void *)HookJniRegisterNatives, nullptr);
   }
   C_API void fake_load_library_init(JNIEnv *env, void *fake_soinfo, const FakeLinker *interface,
   const char *cache_path, const char *config_path, const char *_process_name){
       remote = interface;
       InitHook();
   }
   

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