Malcore’s Blog

Share this post

Expedia scores 36.25

blog.malcore.io

Expedia scores 36.25

Malcore found 36.25 threat points in the Expedia app.

David Robinson
Feb 21, 2023
Share
Share this post

Expedia scores 36.25

blog.malcore.io

Malcore Login

A note on these insights.

The findings outlined in this blog post were drawn from the condensed results of a Malcore scan. To review the exhaustive findings of Malcore’s static analysis of Expedia’s mobile app APK, click the button below.

View Full Results

Try Malcore now!

Your first 5 scans are free.

Free Malcore Registration


Discovered Trackers

Facebook Share
Bolts
Carnival
Google Firebase Analytics
Facebook Analytics
Qualtrics
Facebook Login
Branch
Google CrashLytics
Demdex

High severity warnings, from code analysis

Files may contain hardcoded sensitive information like usernames, passwords, keys etc.
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
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.
This App download files using Android Download Manager
The App uses an insecure Random Number Generator.
App creates temp file. Sensitive information should never be written into a temp file.
This App has capabilities to prevent against Screenshots from Recent Task History/ Now On Tap etc.

Suspicious severity warnings, from code analysis

N/A

Dangerous permissions, per Android labels

Findings as to the existence of permissions which Android’s developers have labelled “Dangerous”, per the documentation available here.

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: 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: USE_CREDENTIALS

Description: Allows an application to request authentication tokens.
Name: AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS

Description: Allows an application to use the account authenticator capabilities of the Account Manager, including creating accounts as well as obtaining and setting their passwords.
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: WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS

Description: Allows an application to modify the sync settings, such as whether sync is enabled for Contacts.
Name: CHANGE_WIFI_STATE

Description: Allows an application to connect to and disconnect from Wi-Fi access points and to make changes to configured Wi-Fi networks.
Name: WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

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

Description: Allows an application to communicate with Near-Field Communication (NFC) tags, cards and readers.
Name: ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

Description: Allows an application to view the status of all networks.
Name: control Near-Field Communication

Description: Allows an application to communicate with Near-Field Communication (NFC) tags, cards and readers.
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.

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

Malcore’s Blog
Malcore Mobile App Analysis - Travel, Booking, & Ridesharing
The Malcore team are releasing individual blog posts on each popular Travel, Booking and Ridesharing mobile applications. These are detailed individual blog posts that pull together the results of Malcore’s analysis per application. The Travel, Booking, and Ridesharing industry analysis project shows us the relative Malcore risk score for each applicatio…
Read more
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.

Malcore’s Blog
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…
Read more
6 months ago · Malcore Team

Malcore Login

Share
Share this post

Expedia scores 36.25

blog.malcore.io
Comments
Top
New
Community

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 Malcore Team
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing