/fairplay_research

Some RE work on Apple's Fairplay DRM

Primary LanguageC

Poor Man's Kernel Debuger

This project loads FairplayIOKit kernel driver into userspace and make it possible for LLDB to debug

How to Compile

In project folder

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Notice

It has a built-in branch tracing support, before debugging in lldb, you might have to disable this feaure by comment the relevant code

How to Debug

Caveats

Apple Silicon Device required, tested on 11.2_20D64, may not work on 11.3 and newer version.

Root privileges required for host_get_special_port.

Before debugging, you need to make a breakpoint, right after we notify debugger of the mannually loaded KEXT. fairplay_init can be a good breakpoint.

lldb build/uloader 
(lldb) b fairplay_init
Breakpoint 1: where = uloader`fairplay_init, address = 0x0000000100007bb8
(lldb) r
Process 30277 stopped
* thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = breakpoint 1.1
    frame #0: 0x0000000100007bb8 uloader`fairplay_init
uloader`fairplay_init:
->  0x100007bb8 <+0>:  sub    sp, sp, #0x50             ; =0x50 
    0x100007bbc <+4>:  stp    x29, x30, [sp, #0x40]
    0x100007bc0 <+8>:  add    x29, sp, #0x40            ; =0x40 
    0x100007bc4 <+12>: stur   x0, [x29, #-0x10]
Target 0: (uloader) stopped.

List images like a kernel debugger

(lldb) image list
[  0] 2EB7F208-4321-3545-A778-FE25D1FEB253 0x0000000100000000 /Users/pwn0rz/work/dev/fairplay/build/uloader 
[ 44] A9299904-1979-3514-A8DB-9EDA8159DD55 0x000000010045c000 /System/Library/Extensions/FairPlayIOKit.kext/Contents/MacOS/FairPlayIOKit

Set-up a breakpoint. Even watchpoint is possible :3

(lldb) b fcHfFIGhsx
Breakpoint 2: where = FairPlayIOKit`fcHfFIGhsx, address = 0x000000010056bbe8

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