Hi

I may be wrong, but can someone help me interpret the results of this analysis correctly?

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/0a0238f85b8a559e8ab54f67920004db3a67a39bdbdbfa00075fd7d27e41dec4/672423b56b46e4feb006681d

See the Network Related section: Why does Simplex.apk have a hardcoded communication with

issuetracker.google.com

android.googlesource.com

developers.google.com

An app that is advertised as the most privacy-friendly?

All other indicators can (probably) be considered false positives (for example, the Camera permission, which is needed for video calls)

  • Mettled@reddthat.com
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    3 hours ago

    The link for F-Droid security issues is goijg on 3 years old, have you looked at the code xhanges for F-Droid since then?

    For using Obtainium, how do you avoid or block all apps from Github that depend on GCM, Firebase, or Google services? That’s wh I uae F-Droid and disable all anti-features so those apps are never listed, even if I search for an app that has Google dependancies, F-Droid will say that app does not exist or is not listed, as long as all anti-features is disabled.

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      2 hours ago

      For using Obtainium, how do you avoid or block all apps from Github that depend on GCM, Firebase, or Google services?

      You do have a point though, but how does that even comes into the mix? Obtainium fetches directly from the source (api.github.com).

      But to answer your question, it’s blocked at the DNS level with RethinkDNS. Blocking all requests, except those explicitly allowed by myself.

      This seems more like hardcoded into the .APK or that we can’t correctly interpret the results or something is wrong in the analysis. And I’m also curious to get more Info’s from someone.