Android Security
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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
Detonate APK binary to provide source code level details, including app author, signature, build, and manifest information. 3 Analysis/day free quota.
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
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.
Performs static/dynamic malware analysis over a vast repository of Android samples and checks them against public and private Yara rules.
Static Analysis Tools
detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviors developed by an Android application.
Scans and compares the CFG against the CFG of malicious applications
A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with an online demo available.
A Standalone binary inspection tool that can browse any Android executable and show important info.
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.
Joint intraprocedural and interprocedural program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala
App Vulnerability Scanners
Dynamic Analysis Tools
A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
House: A runtime mobile application analysis toolkit with a Web GUI, powered by Frida, written in Python.
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.
Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with API hooks, start unexported activities, and more. (Xposed Module)
Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)
Practical security policy enforcement for Android apps via bytecode rewriting and in-place reference monitoring.
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.
Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis
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.
is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime
PAPIMonitor (Python API Monitor for Android apps) is a Python tool based on Frida for monitoring user-select APIs during the app execution.
The tool is used to analyze the content of the Android application in local storage.
Intercept SSL/TLS connections with Frida; Allows TLS key extraction and decryption of TLS payload as PCAP on Android in real-time.
A tool designed to automate various Mobile Application Penetration Testing (MAPT) tasks and facilitate interaction with Android devices.
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.
Reverse Engineering
make any application on the device debuggable (using Cydia Substrate).
Obfuscapk is a modular Python tool for obfuscating Android apps without requiring their source code.
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.
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
a tool to exemplify patching Dalvik bytecode in a DEX (Dalvik Executable) file and assist in the static analysis of Android applications.
Fuzz Testing
App Repackaging Detectors
Market Crawlers
Misc Tools
android-vts scans a device for set of vulnerabilities
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.
Bluetooth experimentation framework based on the Reverse Engineering of Broadcom Bluetooth Controllers
AMDH scans and hardens the device's settings and lists harmful installed Apps based on permissions.