android-security-awesome
A collection of android security related resources
https://github.com/ashishb/android-security-awesome
Last synced: 9 days ago
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Academic/Research/Publications/Books
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Books
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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~~
- 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~~
- Android Reverse Engineering 101 by Daniele Altomare (Web Archive link)
- OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide Manual
- doridori/Android-Security-Reference
- android app security checklist
- Mobile App Pentest Cheat Sheet
- Android Reverse Engineering 101 by Daniele Altomare (Web Archive link)
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Research Papers
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📖 Citation
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How to report Security issues
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Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs
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Bounty Programs
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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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List
- Android Security Bulletins
- Android's reported security vulnerabilities
- AOSP - Issue tracker
- Exploit Database - click search
- Vulnerability Google Doc
- Google Android Security Team’s Classifications for Potentially Harmful Applications (Malware)
- Android Devices Security Patch Status
- OWASP Mobile Top 10 2016
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Malware
- androguard - Database Android Malware wiki
- Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.
- Drebin
- Kharon Malware Dataset - 7 malware which have been reverse-engineered and documented
- 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.~~
- Admire
- Android Malware Github repo
- Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.
- 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.
- androguard - Database Android Malware wiki
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Tools
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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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App Vulnerability Scanners
- Devknox - IDE plugin to build secure Android apps. Not maintained anymore.~~
- AndroBugs
- Nogotofail
- QARK - QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan apps for security issues
- Ostorlab - Ostorlab free version scans apps in : Android playstore, iOS Appstore, Huawei AppGallery
- Ostorlab - Ostorlab free version scans apps in : Android playstore, iOS Appstore, Huawei AppGallery
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Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Android DBI frameowork
- Androl4b - A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
- AppUse
- Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals~~
- Crowdroid
- Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore
- 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.~~
- 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.
- Android Malware Analysis Toolkit - (Linux distro) Earlier, it used to be an [online analyzer](http://dunkelheit.com.br/amat/analysis/index_en.php)~~
- Android Reverse Engineering
- ViaLab Community Edition
- Mercury
- Cobradroid
- Decompiler.com - Online APK and Java decompiler
- 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
- Drozer
- 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)
- Android DBI frameowork
- 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
- Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation
- Android Malware Sandbox
- 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, and VirusTotal analysis.
- Runtime Mobile Security (RMS) - is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime
- PAPIMonitor - select APIs during the app execution.
- Android_application_analyzer - The tool is used to analyze the content of the Android application in local storage.
- friTap - Intercept SSL/TLS connections with Frida; Allows TLS key extraction and decryption of TLS payload as PCAP on Android in real-time.
- 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 with the traffic exchanged between the applications and their back-end services/servers.
- MPT - MPT (Mobile Pentest Toolkit) is a must-have solution for your Android penetration testing workflows. This tool allows you to automate security tasks.
- AuditdAndroid
- Andriller - software utility with a collection of forensic tools for smartphones. It performs read-only, forensically sound, non-destructive acquisition from Android devices.
- DECAF - Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)
- Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore
- Mira - Runtime protection analysis platform for third-party Android and iOS apps, enabling AI to use host-app-side shell, Java, Native, and Frida capabilities for environment risk detection and hardening validation.
- Xposed - equivalent of doing Stub-based code injection but without any modifications to the binary
- ViaLab Community Edition
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Fuzz Testing
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Market Crawlers
- Apkpure - Online apk downloader. Also, it provides its own app for downloading.~~
- APK Downloader
- APK Downloader
- Google Play crawler (Java)
- Google Play crawler (Python)
- Google Play crawler (Node) - get app details and download apps from the official Google Play Store.
- Aptoide downloader (Node) - download apps from Aptoide third-party Android market
- Appland downloader (Node) - download apps from Appland third-party Android market
- 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.
- APK Downloader
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Misc Tools
- smalihook
- AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files
- Android Device Security Database - Database of security features of Android devices~~
- Opcodes table for quick reference
- APK-Downloader - seems dead now
- Dalvik opcodes
- smalihook
- 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 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
- Dalvik opcodes
- DroidGround - A flexible playground for Android CTF challenges
- AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files
- NullKia - Comprehensive mobile security framework supporting 18 manufacturers with baseband exploitation, cellular security, TEE/TrustZone research, and BootROM extraction tools.
- sundaysec/Android-Exploits - A collection of android Exploits and Hacks
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Online Analyzers
- AndroTotal - dead~~
- Appknox - 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
- App Detonator - Detonate APK binary to provide source code level details, including app author, signature, build, and manifest information. 3 Analysis/day free quota.
- 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/).
- Approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.
- 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
- 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~~
- Mobile Malware Sandbox
- IBM Security AppScan Mobile Analyzer - not free~~
- Visual Threat - no longer an Android app analyzer~~
- Tracedroid
- habo - 10/day~~
- CopperDroid
- SandDroid
- Stowaway
- Anubis
- Mobile app insight
- Mobile-Sandbox
- Ijiami
- Comdroid
- Android Sandbox
- Foresafe
- Dexter
- MobiSec Eacus
- Fireeye - max 60MB 15/day~~
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- Android Sandbox
- MobiSec Eacus
- approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.~~
- Immuniweb
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
- Android Sandbox
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Programming Languages
Categories
Sub Categories
Online Analyzers
115
Dynamic Analysis Tools
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Reverse Engineering
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Static Analysis Tools
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Misc Tools
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Malware
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Market Crawlers
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Vulnerable Applications for practice
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Others
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List
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Fuzz Testing
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App Vulnerability Scanners
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How to report Security issues
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Research Papers
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Books
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App Repackaging Detectors
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Bounty Programs
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Keywords
android
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reverse-engineering
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apk
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android-security
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security
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mobile-security
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static-analysis
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java
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pentesting
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dynamic-analysis
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frida
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malware-analysis
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ios
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dalvik
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python
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apktool
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android-application
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dex
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smali
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kotlin
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linux
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security-tools
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ios-security
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ios-app
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network-analysis
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mobile
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penetration-testing
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hacking
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android-hacking
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bugbounty
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ssl
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vulnerable-application
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adb
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macos
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kotlin-android
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malware-research
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security-audit
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research
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vulnerabilities
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windows
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google
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exploit
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vulnerability
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odex
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malware
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pentest-tool
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binary-analysis
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mstg
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application-security
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malware-analyzer
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