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 Latitude’s mobile banking app APK, click the button below.
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Discovered Trackers
Facebook Flipper
Google CrashLytics
Google Firebase Analytics
Tealium
High severity warnings from code analysis
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
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.
Files may contain hardcoded sensitive informations like usernames, passwords, keys etc.
App creates temp file. Sensitive information should never be written into a temp file.
Suspicious severity warnings from code analysis
This App has capabilities to prevent against Screenshots from Recent Task History/ Now On Tap etc.
Application attempts to discover build version of device
Dangerous Labelled permissions from Android
Android Dangerous labelled permissions as Dangerous from this library https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.
Name: WRITE_SETTINGS
Description: Allows an application to modify the system's settings data. Malicious applications can corrupt your system's configuration.
Name: READ_SETTINGS
Description: Allows applications to read the global setting of the device it is running on
Name: ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
Description: Allows an application to view the status of all networks.
Name: NFC
Description: Allows an application to communicate with Near-Field Communication (NFC) tags, cards and readers.
Name: WAKE_LOCK
Description: Allows an application to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
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