android-security-awesome

A collection of Android security-related resources.

1. Tools
2. Academic/Research/Publications/Books
3. Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs

Tools

Online Analyzers

1. AndroTotal
2. Appknox - not free
3. Virustotal - max 128MB
4. Fraunhofer App-ray - not free
5. 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
6. App Detonator - Detonate APK binary to provide source code level details including app author, signature, build, and manifest information. 3 Analysis/day free quota.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. AppSweep by Guardsquare - Free, fast Android application security testing for developers
10. Koodous - Performs static/dynamic malware analysis over a vast repository of Android samples and checks them against public and private Yara rules.
11. 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
12. BitBaan
13. AVC UnDroid
14. AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of MalwarePot.
15. AppCritique - Upload your Android APKs and receive comprehensive free security assessments
16. NVISO ApkScan - sunsetting on Oct 31, 2019
17. Mobile Malware Sandbox
18. IBM Security AppScan Mobile Analyzer - not free
19. Visual Threat - no longer an Android app analyzer
20. Tracedroid
21. habo - 10/day
22. CopperDroid
23. SandDroid
24. Stowaway
25. Anubis
26. Mobile app insight
27. Mobile-Sandbox
28. Ijiami
29. Comdroid
30. Android Sandbox
31. Foresafe
32. Dexter
33. MobiSec Eacus
34. Fireeye- max 60MB 15/day
35. approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.

Static Analysis Tools

1. Androwarn - detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviors developed by an Android application.
2. ApkAnalyser
3. APKInspector
4. Droid Intent Data Flow Analysis for Information Leakage
5. DroidLegacy
6. FlowDroid
7. Android Decompiler – not free
8. PSCout - A tool that extracts the permission specification from the Android OS source code using static analysis
9. Amandroid
10. SmaliSCA - Smali Static Code Analysis
11. CFGScanDroid - Scans and compares CFG against CFG of malicious applications
12. Madrolyzer - extracts actionable data like C&C, phone number etc.
13. SPARTA - verifies (proves) that an app satisfies an information-flow security policy; built on the Checker Framework
14. ConDroid - Performs a combination of symbolic + concrete execution of the app
15. DroidRA
16. RiskInDroid - A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with an online demo available.
17. SUPER - Secure, Unified, Powerful and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer
18. ClassyShark - Standalone binary inspection tool which can browse any Android executable and show important info.
19. StaCoAn - 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.
20. JAADAS - Joint intraprocedural and interprocedural program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala
21. Quark-Engine - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System
22. One Step Decompiler - Android APK Decompilation for the Lazy
23. APKLeaks - Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.
24. Mobile Audit - Web application for performing Static Analysis and detecting malware in Android APKs.
25. Smali CFG generator
26. Several tools from PSU

App Vulnerability Scanners

1. QARK - QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan apps for security issues
2. AndroBugs
3. Nogotofail
4. Devknox - IDE plugin to build secure Android apps. Not maintained anymore.

Dynamic Analysis Tools

1. Android DBI frameowork
2. Androl4b- A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
3. House- House: A runtime mobile application analysis toolkit with a Web GUI, powered by Frida, written in Python.
4. 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.
5. AppUse – custom build for penetration testing
6. Droidbox
7. Drozer
8. Xposed - equivalent of doing Stub-based code injection but without any modifications to the binary
9. Inspeckage - Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with API hooks, start unexported activities, and more. (Xposed Module)
10. Android Hooker - Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)
11. ProbeDroid - Dynamic Java code instrumentation
12. DECAF - Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)
13. CuckooDroid - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox
14. Mem - Memory analysis of Android (root required)
15. Crowdroid – unable to find the actual tool
16. AuditdAndroid – android port of auditd, not under active development anymore
17. Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore
18. Aurasium – Practical security policy enforcement for Android apps via bytecode rewriting and in-place reference monitor.
19. Android Linux Kernel modules
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. DroidAnalytics - incomplete
23. Vezir Project - Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis
24. MARA - Mobile Application Reverse Engineering and Analysis Framework
25. Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation
26. 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.
27. Android Malware Sandbox
28. 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, or VirusTotal analysis.
29. Runtime Mobile Security (RMS) - is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime
30. PAPIMonitor – PAPIMonitor (Python API Monitor for Android apps) is a Python tool based on Frida for monitoring user-select APIs during the app execution.
31. Android_application_analyzer - The tool is used to analyze the content of the Android application in local storage.
32. Decompiler.com - Online APK and Java decompiler
33. Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals
34. Android Malware Analysis Toolkit - (Linux distro) Earlier it use to be an online analyzer
35. Android Reverse Engineering – ARE (android reverse engineering) not under active development anymore
36. ViaLab Community Edition
37. Mercury
38. Cobradroid – custom image for malware analysis

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 the device debuggable (using cydia substrate).
10. Dex2Jar - dex to jar converter
11. Enjarify - dex to jar converter from Google
12. Dedexer