reRust

Traffic interception for Rust-based mobile apps — the reFlutter playbook, applied to rustls/reqwest cores.

Mobile apps increasingly move their networking into a statically-linked Rust library. That kills every classic interception technique at once: TLS terminates inside the .so with compiled-in Mozilla roots (webpki-roots), the platform CA store is never consulted, and the Wi-Fi proxy settings are ignored because reqwest only speaks HTTP(S)_PROXY env vars that Android never sets.

reRust makes those apps transparent again:

• rerust inspect app.apk — fingerprint the Rust core (exact crate versions, TLS stack, trust store flavor) straight from a stripped binary.
• rerust patch app.apk --proxy http://127.0.0.1:9999 — repack with an env-proxy shim + fingerprint-gated trust patch (+ optional connect() hook for cores without env plumbing); debug-signed output that runs on unrooted devices.
• rerust frida <apk|lib> --proxy URL — the same interception at runtime, no repack.

# pip / uv
pip install rerust
uv tool install rerust        # or from a clone: uv sync && uv run rerust --help

# end-to-end lab recipe (validated on production-image emulators, no root):
rerust patch app.apk --proxy http://127.0.0.1:9999 --out app.rerust.apk
adb reverse tcp:9999 tcp:8080   # tunnel to Burp/mitmproxy — never rely on 10.0.2.2
adb install -r app.rerust.apk
# decrypted HTTP/2 lands in your proxy within seconds of launch

No CA installation is needed for the Rust core — the trust patch makes the client accept the proxy's certificate, which is why patched apps run unrooted. Platform-store consumers (Java/WebView/Dart) are covered separately in docs/lab-setup.md, including the modern-Android apex-store recipe.

The pattern DB is keyed by library build, not app: off-the-shelf cores (rhttp, Tauri v2's reqwest, …) ship identical .so files across apps, so each entry unlocks every app on that release — and entries can be farmed proactively against self-built pinned targets (docs/corpus-farming.md).

Docs: SPEC.md · lab setup · pattern derivation · corpus farming

Lineage: from the maintainer of reFlutter.

License: MIT