Frida installation (I)

1. Objectives

Frida is a hook framework based on python+javascript, which can run on various platforms such as android, ios, linux, win, etc. It mainly uses dynamic binary instrumentation technology. It is also a widely used reverse engineering tool.

2. Installation

Install frida on Mac

pip install frida

Tip:

pip install frida

If you have installed an old version before, you must uninstall the old version first.

pip uninstall frida

Then install frida-tools

pip install frida-tools

Tip:

If prompted PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'PKG-INFO', you can addsudo

After the installation is complete, check the installed frida version

frida --version
12.11.18

Install frida on android

Install frida-server on a rooted device

First check the phone model and download the corresponding version of https://github.com/frida/frida/releases[frida-server]
```
adb shell getprop ro.product.cpu.abi
arm64-v8a
```
My phone model is arm64-v8a, so I downloaded frida-server-12.11.18-android-arm64.xz and unzipped it intofrida-server-12.11.18-android-arm64
Push the unzipped file to the device, specify the path /data/local/tmp and rename it to frida-server
```
adb push frida-server-12.11.18-android-arm64 /data/local/tmp/frida-server
```

Run frida-server in the android device

adb shell
su
cd /data/local/tmp
chmod 755 frida-server
./frida-server

After the execution is completed, it is in the running state. This shell cannot be closed. If you close it, Frida will stop.

Perform port forwarding monitoring

adb forward tcp:27042 tcp:27042
adb forward tcp:27043 tcp:27043

Check whether the frida-ps -U command is successfully executed and the process list is successfully output, as shown below

MacBook-Pro:~ h1yx$ frida-ps -U
  PID  Name
-----  -------------------------------------
 3973  .dataservices
  484  adbd
  527  adsprpcd
 3891  android.ext.services
 ...

This way frida is installed successfully.