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Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2024
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Dexmod (⭐13) - tool to exemplify patching Dalvik bytecode in a DEX (Dalvik Executable) file, and assist in the static analysis of Android applications.
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024
Tools / Online Analyzers
- approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.
Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2024
Tools / Online Analyzers
- Immuniweb. Does a "OWASP Mobile Top 10 Test", "Mobile App Privacy Check" and an application permissions test. Free tier is 4 tests per day incl. report after registration
Jul 31 - Aug 06, 2023
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- PSCout - A tool that extracts the permission specification from the Android OS source code using static analysis
Tools / Fuzz Testing
Tools / Market Crawlers
- Google Play crawler (Node) (⭐267) - get app details and download apps from the official Google Play Store.
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Research Papers
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
May 22 - May 28, 2023
Tools / Fuzz Testing
Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2023
Tools / Online Analyzers
- Koodous - Performs static/dynamic malware analysis over a vast repository of Android samples and checks them against public and private Yara rules.
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2022
Tools / Online Analyzers
- AppSweep by Guardsquare - Free, fast Android application security testing for developers
Nov 22 - Nov 28, 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
Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2021
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Decompiler.com - Online APK and Java decompiler
Oct 04 - Oct 10, 2021
Tools / Online Analyzers
- AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal 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 / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Android_application_analyzer (⭐141) - 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
- Cobradroid – custom image for malware analysis
Tools / Market Crawlers
- APK Downloader Online Service to download APK from Playstore for specific Android Device Configuration
Tools / Vulnerable Applications for practice
Jul 26 - Aug 01, 2021
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) (⭐9.6k) - 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
- Dare – .dex to .class converter
May 31 - Jun 06, 2021
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- PAPIMonitor (⭐43) – 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 (⭐1k) - Obfuscapk is a modular Python tool for obfuscating Android apps without needing their source code.
- ARMANDroid (⭐9) - 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 (⭐1.1k) - 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 03 - May 09, 2021
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- Mobile Audit (⭐189) - Web application for performing Static Analysis and detecting malware in Android APKs.
Mar 29 - Apr 04, 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 malware with Yara rules. More here.
Mar 15 - Mar 21, 2021
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- APKLeaks (⭐4.5k) - Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.
Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2020
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- Quark-Engine (⭐1.2k) - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System
- One Step Decompiler (⭐233) - Android APK Decompilation for the Lazy
Tools / Misc Tools
- Android Mobile Device Hardening (⭐185) - AMDH scans and hardens the device's settings and lists harmful installed Apps based on permissions.
- APK-Downloader - seems dead now
Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- House (⭐1.3k)- House: A runtime mobile application analysis toolkit with a Web GUI, powered by Frida, written in Python.
Tools / Reverse Engineering
Tools / Misc Tools
- Android Vulnerability Test Suite (⭐1k) - android-vts scans a device for set of vulnerabilities
- AppMon (⭐1.5k)- 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 (⭐649) - 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
Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2020
Tools / App Vulnerability Scanners
- Devknox - IDE plugin to build secure Android apps. Not maintained anymore.
Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2020
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Runtime Mobile Security (RMS) (⭐2.4k) - is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime
Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2020
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Noia (⭐96) - Simple Android application sandbox file browser tool
Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2020
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.
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- AndroPyTool (⭐314) - 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.
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
- Kharon Malware Dataset - 7 malware which have been reverse-engineered and documented
- AndroZoo - AndroZoo is a growing collection of Android Applications collected 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.
Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2020
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2019
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2019
Tools / Online Analyzers
- NVISO ApkScan - sunsetting on Oct 31, 2019
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.
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- apk-mitm (⭐3.3k) - A CLI application that prepares Android APK files for HTTPS inspection
Sep 30 - Oct 06, 2019
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Andromeda (⭐686) - Another basic command-line reverse engineering tool
Jul 29 - Aug 04, 2019
Tools / Online Analyzers
- IBM Security AppScan Mobile Analyzer - not free
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- Androwarn (⭐462) - detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviors developed by an Android application.
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Androl4b (⭐1.1k)- A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Research Papers
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2019
Tools / Online Analyzers
- Visual Threat - no longer an Android app analyzer
May 06 - May 12, 2019
Tools / Reverse Engineering
Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2019
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
- 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
Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2019
Tools / Online Analyzers
Jan 07 - Jan 13, 2019
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Dwarf (⭐1.2k) - GUI for reverse engineering
Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2018
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- JAADAS (⭐340) - Joint intraprocedural and interprocedural program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala
Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2018
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- ConDroid (⭐53) - 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 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.
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
Oct 01 - Oct 07, 2018
Tools / Online Analyzers
- habo - 10/day
- Fireeye- max 60MB 15/day
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation
Tools / Reverse Engineering
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
Jun 18 - Jun 24, 2018
Tools / Online Analyzers
- Appknox - not free
- 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 26 - Apr 01, 2018
Tools / Market Crawlers
- Apkpure - Online apk downloader. Provides also its own app for downloading.
Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- StaCoAn (⭐812) - Cross-platform tool which 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.
Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2017
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / How to report Security issues
- Android Reports and Resources (⭐1.3k) - List of Android Hackerone disclosed reports and other resources
Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2017
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- Android Decompiler – not free
- SmaliSCA (⭐311) - Smali Static Code Analysis
- CFGScanDroid (⭐56) - Scans and compares CFG against CFG of malicious applications
- Madrolyzer (⭐99) - 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
- RiskInDroid (⭐87) - A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with an online demo available.
- SUPER (⭐413) - Secure, Unified, Powerful and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer
- ClassyShark (⭐7.4k) - Standalone binary inspection tool which can browse any Android executable and show important info.
Tools / App Vulnerability Scanners
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Mobile-Security-Framework MobSF (⭐16k) - 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 penetration testing
- Xposed - equivalent of doing Stub-based code injection but without any modifications to the binary
- Inspeckage (⭐2.7k) - Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with API hooks, start unexported activities, and more. (Xposed Module)
- Android Hooker (⭐406) - Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)
- ProbeDroid (⭐194) - Dynamic Java code instrumentation
- DECAF (⭐764) - Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)
- CuckooDroid (⭐566) - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox
- Mem (⭐62) - Memory analysis of Android (root required)
- Crowdroid – unable to find the actual tool
- AuditdAndroid (⭐44) – android port of auditd, not under active development anymore
- Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore
- Aurasium (⭐37) – Practical security policy enforcement for Android apps via bytecode rewriting and in-place reference monitor.
- StaDynA (⭐20) - 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 (⭐28) - incomplete
- Vezir Project (⭐97) - Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis
- MARA (⭐609) - Mobile Application Reverse Engineering and Analysis Framework
- Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Androguard (⭐4.8k) – powerful, integrates well with other tools
- Apktool – really useful for compilation/decompilation (uses smali)
- Android OpenDebug (⭐128) – make any application on the device debuggable (using cydia substrate).
- Dex2Jar (⭐12k) - dex to jar converter
- Enjarify (⭐2.7k) - dex to jar converter from Google
- Frida - inject javascript to explore applications and a GUI tool (⭐170) for it
- Indroid – thread injection kit
- Jad - Java decompiler
- JD-GUI (⭐13k) - Java decompiler
- CFR - Java decompiler
- Krakatau (⭐1.9k) - Java decompiler
- FernFlower (⭐3.2k) - Java decompiler
- Redexer (⭐155) – apk manipulation
Tools / Fuzz Testing
Tools / Market Crawlers
- Aptoide downloader (Node) (⭐22) - download apps from Aptoide third-party Android market
- Appland downloader (Node) (⭐15) - download apps from Appland third-party Android market
Tools / Misc Tools
- AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Research Papers
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / List
- Exploit Database - click search
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
- Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.
Feb 13 - Feb 19, 2017
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Books
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / List
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Bounty Programs
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / How to report Security issues
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2016
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Smali/Baksmali (⭐6.2k) – apk decompilation
Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2016
Tools / Fuzz Testing
Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2015
Tools / App Vulnerability Scanners
- QARK (⭐3.1k) - QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan apps for security issues
Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2015
Tools / App Repackaging Detectors
- FSquaDRA (⭐71) - a tool for the detection of repackaged Android applications based on app resources hash comparison.
Jul 28 - Aug 03, 2014
Tools / Online Analyzers
Tools / Misc Tools