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. Appknox - not free
2. Virustotal
3. 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
4. App Detonator - Detonate APK binary to provide source code level details, including app author, signature, build, and manifest information. 3 Analysis/day free quota.
5. Pithus - 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.
6. 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.
7. AppSweep by Guardsquare - Free, fast Android application security testing for developers
8. Koodous - Performs static/dynamic malware analysis over a vast repository of Android samples and checks them against public and private Yara rules.
9. Immuniweb. Does an "OWASP Mobile Top 10 Test", "Mobile App Privacy Check", and an application permissions test. The free tier is 4 tests per day, including report after registration
10. ANY.RUN - An interactive cloud-based malware analysis platform with support for Android application analysis. Limited free plan available.
11. BitBaan
12. AVC UnDroid
13. AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of .

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 the CFG against the CFG of malicious applications
12. Madrolyzer - extracts actionable data like C&C, phone number etc.
13. ConDroid - Performs a combination of symbolic + concrete execution of the app
14. DroidRA
15. RiskInDroid - A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with an online demo available.
16. SUPER - Secure, Unified, Powerful, and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer
17. ClassyShark - A Standalone binary inspection tool that can browse any Android executable and show important info.
18. StaCoAn - 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.

App Vulnerability Scanners

1. QARK - QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan apps for security issues
2. AndroBugs
3. Nogotofail
4. Ostorlab - Ostorlab free version scans apps in : Android playstore, iOS Appstore, Huawei AppGallery
5. 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. Droidbox
6. Drozer
7. Xposed - equivalent of doing Stub-based code injection but without any modifications to the binary
8. Inspeckage - Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with API hooks, start unexported activities, and more. (Xposed Module)
9. Android Hooker - Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)
10. ProbeDroid - Dynamic Java code instrumentation
11. DECAF - Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)
12. CuckooDroid - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox
13. Mem - Memory analysis of Android (root required)
14. Crowdroid – unable to find the actual tool
15. AuditdAndroid – Android port of auditd, not under active development anymore
16. - not under active development anymore