frida-trace

Frida trace [🔗] allows us to directly trace function calls. This is useful to see what happen when you perform an action. For example: open an app -> start frida-trace -> perform an action (press a button). In this way you can see what happen when you press a button.

$ frida-ps -Uai
 PID  Name                   Identifier                
----  ---------------------  --------------------------
[...] [...]                  [...]      
6615  AppTarget              com.package.target

# Trace all calls on com.package.*
# class!method
frida-trace -U -j 'com.package.target.*!*' AppTarget

Example

$ frida-trace -U -j 'com.package.target.*!*' AppTarget
Instrumenting...
[...]
Started tracing 73 functions. Press Ctrl+C to stop.
 14972 ms  InterceptionFragment$4.onClick("<instance: android.view.View, $className: com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton>")
 14973 ms     | InterceptionFragment.license_check_2()

# You know the class (InterceptionFragment) and the method called (license_check_2())
# Now you want to interpect/override that method. 

Unfortunately, the package name is missing here. So you can use two ways to get it:

1. Inspect __handlers__

$ ls __handlers__
[...]
com.package.target.ui.InterceptionFragment
[...]

1. By using frida. E.g. inside frida REPL

$ frida -U Package
# Call Java.enumerateMethods("class!method")
[...] -> Java.enumerateMethods("*InterceptionFragment!*license_check_2*")
[
    {
        "classes": [
            {
                "methods": [
                    "license_check_2"
                ],
                "name": "com.package.target.ui.InterceptionFragment"
            }
        ],
        "loader": "<instance: java.lang.ClassLoader, $className: dalvik.system.PathClassLoader>"
    }
]

Note: keep in mind that not all classes are loaded at startup. Therefore, you may need to execute frida-trace after the application has started running (and when your class/method has been loaded).