What is Frida?
It is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit, Frida is used by testers to test security of mobile application, Frida is used to inject our JavaScript code to a application.
Installing frida in kali linux:
Prerequisite : Kali linux
You can use command-
- Pip install frida-tools to install frida on kali
If that doesn’t work you can try
- Pipx install frida-tools
Once it is intalled you can verify it by command
- frida-ps
frida-ps will show you the running process name and its PID.
Verify the installed version by using following command :
- frida –version
Setting frida on android:
Prerequisite : rooted emulator , ADB
For installing frida server you will need ADB tool on your kali linux .
Now download the frida server from https://github.com/frida/frida/releases according to architecture of your device (on emulator it should be x86 or x86_64)
Once you have downloaded the file unzip it using command
- xz -d <filename>
Now copy the frida server to tmp directory of android using adb push command
- adb push frida-server /data/local/tmp/
Now go to adb shell using command
- adb shell
Change the permission of the frida-server file.
- chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/<filename>
Now run the adb server using command
- ./<frida_server_filename>
Now, everything is ready. From the terminal, we can connect frida-server by using the below command:
- Frida-ps -U
If everything works fine for you, it will give you the running process id’s and names from your device. Now, you’re good to go with Frida.
