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This blog is for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES only as it exposes common vulnerabilities in Android applications. DO NOT try this on real applications.

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Do not download APKs from random websites, as they might have injected bytecode and potentially steal the data from device.

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Premium feature as a flag in SharedPreferences

 

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Here is the snippet of the beginning of the onCreate method from MainActivity in Smali:

 

 

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Code Injection
invoke-static {p0}, Landroidx/preference/e;->a(Landroid/content/Context;)Landroid/content/SharedPreferences;
move-result-object v0
const-string v1, "preferencePremium"
const/4 v2, 0x1
invoke-interface {v0}, Landroid/content/SharedPreferences;->edit()Landroid/content/SharedPreferences$Editor;
move-result-object v0
invoke-interface {v0, v1, v2}, Landroid/content/SharedPreferences$Editor;->putBoolean(Ljava/lang/String;Z)Landroid/content/SharedPreferences$Editor;
invoke-interface {v0}, Landroid/content/SharedPreferences$Editor;->apply()V
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This code snippet is the same as

SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedPref.edit();
edit.putBoolean("preferencePremium", true);
edit.apply();
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