Tools

A collection of android security related resources.

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  2. Academic/Research/Publications/Books

  3. Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs

Burp Suite

  1. Follow this https://blog.nviso.be/2018/01/31/using-a-custom-root-ca-with-burp-for-inspecting-android-n-traffic/

  2. Some application (e.g. the Chrome browser) may show NET::ERR_CERT_VALIDITY_TOO_LONG errors, if the leaf certificate happens to have a validity extending a certain time (39 months in case of Chrome). This happens if the default Burp CA certificate is used, since the Burp Suite issues leaf certificates with the same validity as its CA certificate. You can circumvent this by creating your own CA certificate and import it to the Burp Suite, as explained in a blog post on nviso.be.)

  3. Import that ca.der to Android via CA Root Certificate apps (Airplane mode could be turned off)

Tools

My tools

https://github.com/enderphan94/andump

Online Analyzers

  1. AndroTotal

  2. Tracedroid

  3. Visual Threat

  4. Mobile Malware Sandbox

  5. Appknox - not free

  6. IBM Security AppScan Mobile Analyzer - not free

  7. NVISO ApkScan

  8. AVC UnDroid

  9. Virustotal - max 128MB

  10. Fraunhofer App-ray - not free

  11. AppCritique - Upload your Android APKs and receive comprehensive free security assessments.

  12. 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

  13. AMAaaS - Android Malware Analysis as a Service. A baremetal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of MalwarePot (https://malwarepot.com/index.php/AMAaaS) - Free.

Static Analysis Tools

  1. Androwarn - detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviours developed by an Android application.

  2. ApkAnalyser

  3. APKInspector

  4. Droid Intent Data Flow Analysis for Information Leakage

  5. DroidLegacy

  6. Several tools from PSU

  7. Smali CFG generator

  8. FlowDroid

  9. Android Decompiler – not free

  10. PSCout - A tool that extracts the permission specification from the Android OS source code using static analysis

  11. Amandroid

  12. SmaliSCA - Smali Static Code Analysis

  13. CFGScanDroid - Scans and compares CFG against CFG of malicious applications

  14. Madrolyzer - extracts actionable data like C&C, phone number etc.

  15. SPARTA - verifies (proves) that an app satisfies an information-flow security policy; built on the Checker Framework

  16. ConDroid - Performs a combination of symbolic + concrete execution of the app

  17. DroidRA

  18. RiskInDroid - A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with online demo available.

  19. SUPER - Secure, Unified, Powerful and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer

  20. ClassyShark - Standalone binary inspection tool which can browse any Android executable and show important infos.

  21. StaCoAn - Crossplatform tool which aids developers, bugbounty hunters and ethical hackers performing static code analysis on mobile applications. This tool was created with a big focus on usability and graphical guidance in the user interface.

  22. JAADAS - Joint intraprocedure and interprocedure program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala

App Vulnerability Scanners

  1. QARK - QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan app for security issues

  2. AndroBugs

  3. Nogotofail

  1. Dynamic Analysis Tools

  2. Android DBI frameowork

  3. Androl4b- A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

  4. Android Malware Analysis Toolkit - (linux distro) Earlier it use to be an online analyzer

  5. 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.

  6. AppUse – custom build for pentesting

  7. Cobradroid – custom image for malware analysis

  8. Droidbox

  9. Drozer

  10. Xposed - equivalent of doing Stub based code injection but without any modifications to the binary

  11. Inspeckage - Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with api hooks, start unexported activities and more. (Xposed Module)

  12. Android Hooker - Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)

  13. ProbeDroid - Dynamic Java code instrumentation

  14. Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals

  15. DECAF - Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)

  16. CuckooDroid - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox

  17. Mem - Memory analysis of Android (root required)

  18. Crowdroid – unable to find the actual tool

  19. AuditdAndroid – android port of auditd, not under active development anymore

  20. Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore

  21. Android Reverse Engineering – ARE (android reverse engineering) not under active development anymore

  22. Aurasium – Practical security policy enforcement for Android apps via bytecode rewriting and in-place reference monitor.

  23. Android Linux Kernel modules

  24. 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 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.

  25. 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.

  26. DroidAnalytics - incomplete

  27. Vezir Project - Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis

  28. MARA - Mobile Application Reverse engineering and Analysis Framework

  29. Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation

Reverse Engineering

  1. Smali/Baksmali – apk decompilation

  2. emacs syntax coloring for smali files

  3. vim syntax coloring for smali files

  4. AndBug

  5. Androguard – powerful, integrates well with other tools

  6. Apktool – really useful for compilation/decompilation (uses smali)

  7. Android Framework for Exploitation

  8. Bypass signature and permission checks for IPCs

  9. Android OpenDebug – make any application on device debuggable (using cydia substrate).

  10. Dare – .dex to .class converter

  11. Dex2Jar - dex to jar converter

  12. Enjarify - dex to jar converter from Google

  13. Dedexer

  14. Fino

  15. Frida - inject javascript to explore applications and a GUI tool for it

  16. Indroid – thread injection kit

  17. IntentSniffer

  18. Introspy

  19. Jad - Java decompiler

  20. JD-GUI - Java decompiler

  21. CFR - Java decompiler

  22. Krakatau - Java decompiler

  23. Procyon - Java decompiler

  24. FernFlower - Java decompiler

  25. Redexer – apk manipulation

  26. Smali viewer

  27. ZjDroid, fork/mirror

  28. Simplify Android deobfuscator

  29. Bytecode viewer

  30. Radare2

  31. Jadx

  32. Dwarf - GUI for reverse engineering

Fuzz Testing

  1. IntentFuzzer

  2. Radamsa Fuzzer

  3. Honggfuzz

  4. An Android port of the melkor ELF fuzzer

  5. Media Fuzzing Framework for Android

  6. AndroFuzz

App Repackaging Detectors

  1. FSquaDRA - a tool for detection of repackaged Android applications based on app resources hash comparison.

Market Crawlers

  1. Google play crawler (Java)

  2. Google play crawler (Python)

  3. Google play crawler (Node) - get app details and download apps from official Google Play Store.

  4. Aptoide downloader (Node) - download apps from Aptoide third-party Android market

  5. Appland downloader (Node) - download apps from Appland third-party Android market

  6. Apkpure - Online apk downloader. Provides also an own app for downloading.

Misc Tools

  1. smalihook

  2. APK-Downloader

  3. AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files

  4. adb autocomplete

  5. Dalvik opcodes

  6. Opcodes table for quick reference

  7. ExploitMe Android Labs - for practice

  8. GoatDroid - for practice

  9. Android InsecureBank - for practice

  10. mitmproxy

  11. dockerfile/androguard

  12. Android Vulnerability Test Suite - android-vts scans a device for set of vulnerabilities

  13. AppMon- AppMon is an automated framework for monitoring and tampering system API calls of native macOS, iOS and android apps. It is based on Frida.

Academic/Research/Publications/Books

Research Papers

  1. Exploit Database

  2. Android security related presentations

  3. A good collection of static analysis papers

Books

  1. SEI CERT Android Secure Coding Standard

Others

  1. OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide Manual

  2. doridori/Android-Security-Reference

  3. android app security checklist

  4. Mobile App Pentest Cheat Sheet

  5. Mobile Security Reading Room - A reading room which contains well categorised technical reading material about mobile penetration testing, mobile malware, mobile forensics and all kind of mobile security related topics

Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs

List

  1. Android Security Bulletins

  2. Android's reported security vulnerabilities

  3. Android Devices Security Patch Status

  4. AOSP - Issue tracker

  5. OWASP Mobile Top 10 2016

  6. Exploit Database - click search

  7. Vulnerability Google Doc

  8. Google Android Security Team’s Classifications for Potentially Harmful Applications (Malware)

Malware

  1. androguard - Database Android Malwares wiki

  2. Android Malware Github repo

  3. Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purpose.

  4. Contagio Mobile Malware Mini Dump

  5. VirusTotal Malware Intelligence Service - powered by VirusTotal, not free

  6. Drebin

Bounty Programs

  1. Android Security Reward Program

How to report Security issues

  1. Android - reporting security issues

  2. Android Reports and Resources - List of Android Hackerone disclosed reports and other resources

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!

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