android-security-awesome
A collection of android security related resources
https://github.com/ashishb/android-security-awesome
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Tools
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Online Analyzers
- Dexter
- Mobile Malware Sandbox
- IBM Security AppScan Mobile Analyzer - not free~~
- Tracedroid
- habo - 10/day~~
- Stowaway
- Fireeye - max 60MB 15/day~~
- NowSecure Lab Automated - Enterprise tool for mobile app security testing both Android and iOS mobile apps. Lab Automated features dynamic and static analysis on real devices in the cloud to return results in minutes. Not free
- Approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.
- AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of [MalwarePot](https://malwarepot.com/index.php/AMAaaS)~~.
- Visual Threat - no longer an Android app analyzer~~
- SandDroid
- Mobile-Sandbox
- Comdroid
- Android Sandbox
- Foresafe
- Dexter
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Mobile-Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of [MalwarePot](https://malwarepot.com/index.php/AMAaaS)~~.
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Fraunhofer App-ray - not free
- Foresafe
- Virustotal - max 128MB
- MobiSec Eacus
- Oversecured - Enterprise vulnerability scanner for Android and iOS apps; it offers app owners and developers the ability to secure each new version of a mobile app by integrating Oversecured into the development process. Not free.
- AppSweep by Guardsquare - Free, fast Android application security testing for developers
- ANY.RUN - An interactive cloud-based malware analysis platform with support for Android application analysis. Limited free plan available.
- BitBaan
- AVC UnDroid
- AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of [MalwarePot](https://malwarepot.com/index.php/AMAaaS)~~.
- AppCritique - Upload your Android APKs and receive comprehensive free security assessments~~
- NVISO ApkScan - sunsetting on Oct 31, 2019~~
- Visual Threat - no longer an Android app analyzer~~
- CopperDroid
- SandDroid
- Stowaway
- Mobile app insight
- Mobile-Sandbox
- Ijiami
- Android Sandbox
- approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.~~
- NowSecure Lab Automated - Enterprise tool for mobile app security testing both Android and iOS mobile apps. Lab Automated features dynamic and static analysis on real devices in the cloud to return results in minutes. Not free
- Anubis
- Pithus - Open-Source APK analyzer. Still in Beta and limited to static analysis for the moment. It is possible to hunt malware with Yara rules. More [here](https://beta.pithus.org/about/).
- Immuniweb
- Comdroid
- AndroTotal
- Appknox - not free
- App Detonator - Detonate APK binary to provide source code level details, including app author, signature, build, and manifest information. 3 Analysis/day free quota.
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Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation
- PAPIMonitor - select APIs during the app execution.
- Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals~~
- Android DBI frameowork
- Crowdroid
- Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore
- Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation
- ARTist - a flexible open-source instrumentation and hybrid analysis framework for Android apps and Android's Java middleware. It is based on the Android Runtime's (ART) compiler and modifies code during on-device compilation.
- ViaLab Community Edition
- Drozer
- Crowdroid
- AuditdAndroid
- Drozer
- Aurasium - place reference monitoring.
- Android Linux Kernel modules
- StaDynA - a system supporting security app analysis in the presence of dynamic code update features (dynamic class loading and reflection). This tool combines static and dynamic analysis of Android applications in order to reveal the hidden/updated behavior and extend static analysis results with this information.
- DroidAnalytics - incomplete
- Vezir Project - Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis
- MARA - Mobile Application Reverse Engineering and Analysis Framework
- Android Malware Sandbox
- Runtime Mobile Security (RMS) - is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime
- HacknDroid - A tool designed to automate various Mobile Application Penetration Testing (MAPT) tasks and facilitate interaction with Android devices.
- adbsploit - tools for exploiting device via ADB
- Brida - Burp Suite extension that, working as a bridge between Burp and Frida, lets you use and manipulate the applications' own methods while tampering the traffic exchanged between the applications and their back-end services/servers.
- Mercury
- Android DBI frameowork
- MPT - MPT (Mobile Pentest Toolkit) is a must-have solution for your android penetration testing workflows. This tool allow you to automate security tasks.
- Androl4b - A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
- House - House: A runtime mobile application analysis toolkit with a Web GUI, powered by Frida, written in Python.
- Mobile-Security-Framework MobSF - Mobile Security Framework is an intelligent, all-in-one open-source mobile application (Android/iOS) automated pen-testing framework capable of performing static, dynamic analysis and web API testing.
- Droidbox
- Inspeckage - Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with API hooks, start unexported activities, and more. (Xposed Module)
- Android Hooker - Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)
- ProbeDroid - Dynamic Java code instrumentation
- CuckooDroid - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox
- Mem - Memory analysis of Android (root required)
- AndroPyTool - a tool for extracting static and dynamic features from Android APKs. It combines different well-known Android app analysis tools such as DroidBox, FlowDroid, Strace, AndroGuard, or VirusTotal analysis.
- Android_application_analyzer - The tool is used to analyze the content of the Android application in local storage.
- Decompiler.com - Online APK and Java decompiler
- friTap - Intercept SSL/TLS connections with Frida; Allows TLS key extraction and decryption of TLS payload as PCAP on Android in real-time.
- AppUse
- Appie - Appie is a software package that has been pre-configured to function as an Android Pentesting Environment. It is completely portable and can be carried on a USB stick or smartphone. This is a one-stop answer for all the tools needed in Android Application Security Assessment and an awesome alternative to existing virtual machines.~~
- Android Reverse Engineering
- Android Malware Analysis Toolkit - (Linux distro) Earlier, it used to be an [online analyzer](http://dunkelheit.com.br/amat/analysis/index_en.php)~~
- Cobradroid
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Static Analysis Tools
- Droid Intent Data Flow Analysis for Information Leakage
- ApkAnalyser
- Amandroid
- One Step Decompiler - Android APK Decompilation for the Lazy
- Amandroid
- CFGScanDroid - Scans and compares the CFG against the CFG of malicious applications
- DroidLegacy
- FlowDroid
- DroidRA
- StaCoAn - Cross-platform tool that aids developers, bug-bounty hunters, and ethical hackers in performing static code analysis on mobile applications. This tool was created with a big focus on usability and graphical guidance in the user interface.
- JAADAS - Joint intraprocedural and interprocedural program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala
- Androwarn - detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviors developed by an Android application.
- Quark-Engine - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System
- APKLeaks - Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.
- Mobile Audit - Web application for performing Static Analysis and detecting malware in Android APKs.
- Detekt - Static code analysis for Kotlin
- Several tools from PSU
- SPARTA - verifies (proves) that an app satisfies an information-flow security policy; built on the [Checker Framework](https://types.cs.washington.edu/checker-framework/)~~
- Android Decompiler
- PSCout - A tool that extracts the permission specification from the Android OS source code using static analysis
- ConDroid - Performs a combination of symbolic + concrete execution of the app
- RiskInDroid - A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with an online demo available.
- SUPER - Secure, Unified, Powerful, and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer
- ClassyShark - A Standalone binary inspection tool that can browse any Android executable and show important info.
- SmaliSCA - Smali Static Code Analysis
- Madrolyzer - extracts actionable data like C&C, phone number etc.
- Smali CFG generator
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Reverse Engineering
- vim syntax coloring for smali files
- Frida - inject JavaScript to explore applications and a [GUI tool](https://github.com/antojoseph/diff-gui) for it
- Android Framework for Exploitation
- Bypass signature and permission checks for IPCs
- Android OpenDebug
- Dex2Jar - dex to jar converter
- Enjarify - dex to jar converter from Google
- Dedexer
- Fino
- Indroid
- Introspy
- Jad - Java decompiler
- Noia - Simple Android application sandbox file browser tool
- ARMANDroid - ARMAND (Anti-Repackaging through Multi-pattern, Anti-tampering based on Native Detection) is a novel anti-tampering protection scheme that embeds logic bombs and AT detection nodes directly in the apk file without needing their source code.
- MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) - a collection of utilities to simplify and automate the process of gathering forensic traces helpful to identify a potential compromise of Android and iOS devices
- Dexmod - a tool to exemplify patching Dalvik bytecode in a DEX (Dalvik Executable) file and assist in the static analysis of Android applications.
- odex-patcher - Run arbitrary code by patching OAT files
- PhoneSpolit-Pro - An all-in-one hacking tool to remotely exploit Android devices using ADB and Metasploit Framework to get a Meterpreter session.
- APKLab - plugin for VS code to analyze APKs
- Smali viewer
- ZjDroid
- Dare
- emacs syntax coloring for smali files
- vim syntax coloring for smali files
- AndBug
- Androguard
- Apktool
- JD-GUI - Java decompiler
- CFR - Java decompiler
- Krakatau - Java decompiler
- FernFlower - Java decompiler
- Redexer
- Simplify Android deobfuscator
- Bytecode viewer
- Jadx
- Dwarf - GUI for reverse engineering
- Andromeda - Another basic command-line reverse engineering tool
- apk-mitm - A CLI application that prepares Android APK files for HTTPS inspection
- Obfuscapk
- Smali/Baksmali
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Misc Tools
- smalihook
- AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files
- Dalvik opcodes
- AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files
- adb autocomplete
- mitmproxy
- dockerfile/androguard
- Android Vulnerability Test Suite - android-vts scans a device for set of vulnerabilities
- AppMon - AppMon is an automated framework for monitoring and tampering with system API calls of native macOS, iOS, and Android apps. It is based on Frida.
- Internal Blue - Bluetooth experimentation framework based on the Reverse Engineering of Broadcom Bluetooth Controllers
- Android Device Security Database - Database of security features of Android devices~~
- smalihook
- Opcodes table for quick reference
- APK-Downloader - seems dead now
- Dalvik opcodes
- Android Mobile Device Hardening - AMDH scans and hardens the device's settings and lists harmful installed Apps based on permissions.
- Firmware Extractor - Extract given archive to images
- ARMv7 payload that provides arbitrary code execution on MediaTek bootloaders
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Vulnerable Applications for practice
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Market Crawlers
- APK Downloader
- APK Downloader
- Google Play crawler (Node) - get app details and download apps from the official Google Play Store.
- PlaystoreDownloader - PlaystoreDownloader is a tool for downloading Android applications directly from the Google Play Store. After an initial (one-time) configuration, applications can be downloaded by specifying their package name.
- Apkpure - Online apk downloader. Also, it provides its own app for downloading.~~
- Google Play crawler (Java)
- Google Play crawler (Python)
- Aptoide downloader (Node) - download apps from Aptoide third-party Android market
- Appland downloader (Node) - download apps from Appland third-party Android market
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App Vulnerability Scanners
- QARK - QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan apps for security issues
- AndroBugs
- Nogotofail
- Devknox - IDE plugin to build secure Android apps. Not maintained anymore.~~
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Fuzz Testing
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App Repackaging Detectors
- FSquaDRA - a tool for detecting repackaged Android applications based on app resources hash comparison.
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Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs
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Malware
- Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.
- androguard - Database Android Malware wiki
- Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.
- Kharon Malware Dataset - 7 malware which have been reverse-engineered and documented
- Admire
- Contagio Mobile Malware Mini Dump
- Kharon Malware Dataset - 7 malware which have been reverse-engineered and documented
- Android Malware Github repo
- Hudson Rock - A Free cybercrime intelligence toolset that can indicate if a specific APK package was compromised in an Infostealer malware attack.
- Admire
- Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.
- Drebin
- Android Adware and General Malware Dataset
- AndroZoo - AndroZoo is a growing Android application collection from several sources, including the official Google Play app market.
- Android PRAGuard Dataset - The dataset contains 10479 samples, obtained by obfuscating the MalGenome and the Contagio Minidump datasets with seven different obfuscation techniques.~~
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List
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How to report Security issues
- Android - reporting security issues
- Android Reports and Resources - List of Android Hackerone disclosed reports and other resources
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Academic/Research/Publications/Books
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Research Papers
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Others
- Android Reverse Engineering 101 by Daniele Altomare (Web Archive link)
- Mobile Security Reading Room - A reading room that contains well-categorized technical reading material about mobile penetration testing, mobile malware, mobile forensics, and all kind of mobile security-related topics~~
- Android Reverse Engineering 101 by Daniele Altomare (Web Archive link)
- Mobile Security Reading Room - A reading room that contains well-categorized technical reading material about mobile penetration testing, mobile malware, mobile forensics, and all kinds of mobile security-related topics~~
- OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide Manual
- doridori/Android-Security-Reference
- android app security checklist
- Mobile App Pentest Cheat Sheet
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Books
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📖 Citation
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How to report Security issues
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Programming Languages
Categories
Sub Categories
Online Analyzers
116
Dynamic Analysis Tools
45
Reverse Engineering
40
Static Analysis Tools
27
Misc Tools
18
Malware
15
Market Crawlers
9
Others
8
Vulnerable Applications for practice
7
Fuzz Testing
7
List
7
App Vulnerability Scanners
4
How to report Security issues
3
Research Papers
3
Books
1
App Repackaging Detectors
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linux
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decompiler
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