ashishb/android-security-awesome

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A collection of android security related resources

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Jan 19th

Tools

Online Analyzers

AppSweep by Guardsquare - Free, fast Android application security testing for developers

Nov 24th, 2021

Tools

Online Analyzers

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.

Tools

Vulnerable Applications for practice

Oversecured Vulnerable Android App (OVAA)stars364

Oct 20th, 2021

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Decompiler.com - Online APK and Java decompiler

Oct 9th, 2021

Tools

Online Analyzers

~~AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A baremetal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of MalwarePot~~.

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

Tools

Market Crawlers

APK Downloader Online Sevrice to download APK from Playstore for specific Android Device Configuration

Tools

Vulnerable Applications for practice

Insecureshop stars199

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Android_application_analyzer stars118 - The tool is used to analyze the content of the android application in local storage.

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

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

~~ViaLab Community Edition~~

~~Mercury~~

~~Cobradroid – custom image for malware analysis~~

Jul 29th, 2021

Tools

Reverse Engineering

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit)stars7.9k - 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

~~Procyon - Java decompiler~~

~~Smali viewer~~

~~ZjDroid~~, ~~fork/mirror~~

~~Dare – .dex to .class converter~~

Jun 1st, 2021

Tools

Online Analyzers

Approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

PAPIMonitor stars29 – PAPIMonitor (Python API Monitor for Android apps) is a python tool based on Frida for monitoring user-select APIs during the app execution.

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Obfuscapk stars755 - Obfuscapk is a modular Python tool for obfuscating Android apps without needing their source code.

ARMANDroid stars6 - ARMAND (Anti-Repackaging through Multi-patternAnti-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.

Tools

Market Crawlers

PlaystoreDownloader stars962 - 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.

May 9th, 2021

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

Mobile Audit stars144 - Web application for performing Static Analysis and detecting malware in Android APKs.

~~Several tools from PSU~~

Mar 31st, 2021

Tools

Online Analyzers

Pithus - Open-Source APK analyzer. Still in Beta for the moment and limited to static analysis for the moment. Possible to hunt malwares with Yara rules. More here.

Mar 15th, 2021

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

APKLeaks stars3.2k - Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.

Dec 18th, 2020

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

Quark-Engine stars923 - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System

One Step Decompiler stars198 - Android APK Decompilation for the Lazy

Dec 15th, 2020

Tools

Misc Tools

Android Mobile Device Hardening stars133 - AMDH scans and harden device's settings and list harmful installed Apps based on permissions.

~~Opcodes table for quick reference~~

~~APK-Downloader~~ - seems dead now

~~Dalvik opcodes~~

Oct 1st, 2020

Tools

Misc Tools

mitmproxy stars28.3k

dockerfile/androguard stars34

Android Vulnerability Test Suite stars997 - android-vts scans a device for set of vulnerabilities

AppMon stars1.3k- AppMon is an automated framework for monitoring and tampering system API calls of native macOS, iOS and android apps. It is based on Frida.

Internal Blue stars516 - Bluetooth experimentation framework based on Reverse Engineering of Broadcom Bluetooth Controllers

Android Device Security Database - Database of security features of Android devices

Tools

Vulnerable Applications for practice

Damn Insecure Vulnerable Application (DIVA)stars748

Vuldroid stars38

ExploitMe Android Labs

GoatDroid stars227

Android InsecureBank stars969

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

House stars1.1k- House: A runtime mobile application analysis toolkit with a Web GUI, powered by Frida, written in Python.

Sep 30th, 2020

Tools

Reverse Engineering

IntentSniffer

Aug 30th, 2020

Tools

App Vulnerability Scanners

~~Devknox - IDE plugin to build secure Android apps. Not maintained anymore.~~

Jul 31st, 2020

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Runtime Mobile Security (RMS)stars1.9k - is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime

Jun 28th, 2020

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Noia stars86 - Simple Android application sandbox file browser tool

Jun 12th, 2020

Academic/Research/Publications/Books

Others

Android Reverse Engineering 101 by Daniele Altomare (Web Archive link)

Tools

Online Analyzers

App Detonator - Detonate APK binary to provide source code level details including app author, signature, build and manifest information. 3 Analysis/day free quota.

BitBaan

Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs

Malware

Kharon Malware Dataset - 7 malwares which have been reverse engineered and documented

Android Adware and General Malware Dataset

Android PRAGuard Dataset - The dataset contains 10479 samples, obtained by obfuscating the MalGenome and the Contagio Minidump datasets with seven different obfuscation techniques.

AndroZoo - AndroZoo is a growing collection of Android Applications collected from several sources, including the official Google Play app market.

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

AndroPyTool stars245 - a tool for extracting static and dynamic features from Android APKs. It combines different well-known Android apps analysis tools such as DroidBox, FlowDroid, Strace, AndroGuard or VirusTotal analysis.

May 28th, 2020

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Droidbox stars643

Dec 16th, 2019

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Android Malware Sandbox stars223

Oct 25th, 2019

Tools

Online Analyzers

~~NVISO ApkScan - sunsetting on Oct 31, 2019~~

Tools

Reverse Engineering

apk-mitm stars2k - A CLI application that prepares Android APK files for HTTPS inspection

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

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.

Sep 24th, 2019

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Simplify Android deobfuscator stars4k

Andromeda stars661 - Another basic command-line reverse engineering tool

Jul 28th, 2019

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Android DBI frameowork

Androl4b stars984- A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

Tools

Market Crawlers

Google play crawler (Node)stars264 - get app details and download apps from official Google Play Store.

Academic/Research/Publications/Books

Research Papers

Exploit Database

Academic/Research/Publications/Books

Others

OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide Manual stars9.3k

Tools

Online Analyzers

~~Mobile Malware Sandbox~~

~~IBM Security AppScan Mobile Analyzer - not free~~

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

Androwarn stars400 - detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviours developed by an Android application.

May 28th, 2019

Tools

Online Analyzers

~~Visual Threat - no longer an Android app analyzer~~

Apr 29th, 2019

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Dedexer

Mar 29th, 2019

Academic/Research/Publications/Books

Others

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

Jan 28th, 2019

Tools

Online Analyzers

~~Tracedroid~~

~~CopperDroid~~

Jan 4th, 2019

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Dwarf stars1.1k - GUI for reverse engineering

Nov 13th, 2018

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

JAADAS stars327 - Joint intraprocedure and interprocedure program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala

Oct 19th, 2018

Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs

Malware

Drebin

~~Admire~~

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

ConDroid stars47 - Performs a combination of symbolic + concrete execution of the app

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

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.

Oct 4th, 2018

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Jadx stars31.1k

Academic/Research/Publications/Books

Others

doridori/Android-Security-Reference stars767

android app security checklist stars684

Mobile App Pentest Cheat Sheet stars3.3k

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation

Tools

Online Analyzers

~~habo - 10/day~~

~~SandDroid~~

~~Stowaway~~

~~Anubis~~

~~Mobile app insight~~

~~Mobile-Sandbox~~

~~Ijiami~~

~~Comdroid~~

~~Android Sandbox~~

~~Foresafe~~

~~Dexter~~

~~MobiSec Eacus~~

~~Fireeye- max 60MB 15/day~~

Jun 23rd, 2018

Tools

Online Analyzers

Appknox - not free

AVC UnDroid

Virustotal - max 128MB

Fraunhofer App-ray - 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

Mar 29th, 2018

Tools

Market Crawlers

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

Mar 11th, 2018

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

StaCoAn stars762 - 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.

Nov 20th, 2017

Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs

How to report Security issues

Android Reports and Resources stars997 - List of Android Hackerone disclosed reports and other resources

Sep 21st, 2017

Tools

Static Analysis Tools

ApkAnalyser stars967

APKInspector stars766

Droid Intent Data Flow Analysis for Information Leakage

DroidLegacy

Smali CFG generator stars130

FlowDroid

Android Decompiler – not free

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

Amandroid

SmaliSCA stars301 - Smali Static Code Analysis

CFGScanDroid stars50 - Scans and compares CFG against CFG of malicious applications

Madrolyzer stars92 - extracts actionable data like C&C, phone number etc.

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

DroidRA stars45

RiskInDroid stars69 - A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with online demo available.

SUPER stars382 - Secure, Unified, Powerful and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer

ClassyShark stars7.1k - Standalone binary inspection tool which can browse any Android executable and show important infos.

Tools

App Vulnerability Scanners

AndroBugs stars975

Nogotofail stars2.8k

Tools

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Mobile-Security-Framework MobSF stars11.8k - 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.

AppUse – custom build for pentesting

Drozer stars2.8k

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

Inspeckage stars2.4k - Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with api hooks, start unexported activities and more. (Xposed Module)

Android Hooker stars390 - Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)

ProbeDroid stars189 - Dynamic Java code instrumentation

Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals

DECAF stars699 - Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)

CuckooDroid stars536 - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox

Mem stars56 - Memory analysis of Android (root required)

Crowdroid – unable to find the actual tool

AuditdAndroid stars43 – android port of auditd, not under active development anymore

Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore

Aurasium stars36 – Practical security policy enforcement for Android apps via bytecode rewriting and in-place reference monitor.

Android Linux Kernel modules stars175

StaDynA stars18 - 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 stars27 - incomplete

Vezir Project stars88 - Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis

MARA stars551 - Mobile Application Reverse engineering and Analysis Framework