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Defence Bank Australia scores 15.55

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Defence Bank Australia scores 15.55

Malcore scores Defence Bank Australia 15.55

David Robinson
Feb 26, 2023
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This blog has been taken from Malcore’s analysis results. The points below are not an exhaustive list. For a full view of Malcore’s static analysis of the Defence Bank Australia App APK view it on Malcore.

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Discovered Trackers

Google CrashLytics
Google Tag Manager
Bolts
Google Firebase Analytics

High severity warnings from code analysis

The App uses an insecure Random Number Generator.
App uses SQLite Database and execute raw SQL query. Untrusted user input in raw SQL queries can cause SQL Injection. Also sensitive information should be encrypted and written to the database.
Insecure Implementation of SSL. Trusting all the certificates or accepting self signed certificates is a critical Security Hole. This application is vulnerable to MITM attacks.
Files may contain hardcoded sensitive information like usernames, passwords, keys etc.

Suspicious severity warnings from code analysis

N/A

Dangerous Labelled permissions from Android

Android Dangerous labelled permissions as Dangerous from this library https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.

Name: ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

Description: Access coarse location sources, such as the mobile network database, to determine an approximate phone location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.
Name: CAMERA

Description: Allows application to take pictures and videos with the camera. This allows the application to collect images that the camera is seeing at any time.
Name: ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION

Description: Access fine location sources, such as the Global Positioning System on the phone, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine where you are and may consume additional battery power.
Name: REORDER_TASKS

Description: Allows an application to move tasks to the foreground and background. Malicious applications can force themselves to the front without your control.
Name: ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

Description: Allows an application to view the status of all networks.
Name: WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Description: Allows an application to write to the SD card.
Name: READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Description: Allows an application to read from SD Card.
Name: CALL_PHONE

Description: Allows the application to call phone numbers without your intervention. Malicious applications may cause unexpected calls on your phone bill. Note that this does not allow the application to call emergency numbers.
Name: WAKE_LOCK

Description: Allows an application to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
Name: READ_CONTACTS

Description: Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your phone. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.

To view how these results compare within industry see our analysis:

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Malcore Mobile App Analysis - Banking
The Malcore team are releasing individual blog posts on each popular Banking mobile applications. These are detailed individual blog posts that pull together the results of Malcore’s analysis per banking mobile application. The Banking industry analysis project shows us the relative Malcore risk score for each mobile application. It is a comparative proc…
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3 months ago · David Robinson

To view how these scores are created visit our transparency post where we published a description of our phone application threat scoring algorithm.

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Transparency on Malcore Mobile Algorithm
Why the Malcore Mobile App analyzer algorithm was built The Malcore team have begun a project to analyze as many popular mobile applications as possible with Malcore and publish the results. A few comments about this project. We believe in transparency…
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6 months ago · Malcore Team

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