Android Security

not free

max 128MB

not free

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

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

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.

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.

Free, fast Android application security testing for developers

Performs static/dynamic malware analysis over a vast repository of Android samples and checks them against public and private Yara rules.

. 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

An interactive cloud-based malware analysis platform with support for Android application analysis. Limited free plan available.

Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of MalwarePot.

Upload your Android APKs and receive comprehensive free security assessments

sunsetting on Oct 31, 2019

not free

no longer an Android app analyzer

10/day

max 60MB 15/day

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

detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviors developed by an Android application.

not free

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

Smali Static Code Analysis

Scans and compares the CFG against the CFG of malicious applications

extracts actionable data like C&C, phone number etc.

Performs a combination of symbolic + concrete execution of the app

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

Secure, Unified, Powerful, and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer

A Standalone binary inspection tool that can browse any Android executable and show important info.

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.

Joint intraprocedural and interprocedural program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala

An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System

Android APK Decompilation for the Lazy

Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.

Web application for performing Static Analysis and detecting malware in Android APKs.

Static code analysis for Kotlin

Advanced analysis software for APK payloads created by RATs.

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

QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan apps for security issues

IDE plugin to build secure Android apps. Not maintained anymore.

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

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

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.

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

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

Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)

Dynamic Java code instrumentation

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

Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox

Memory analysis of Android (root required)

unable to find the actual tool

Android port of auditd, not under active development anymore

not under active development anymore

Practical security policy enforcement for Android apps via bytecode rewriting and in-place reference monitoring.

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.

incomplete

Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis

Mobile Application Reverse Engineering and Analysis Framework

requires AOSP compilation

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.

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, and VirusTotal analysis.

is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime

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

The tool is used to analyze the content of the Android application in local storage.

Online APK and Java decompiler

Intercept SSL/TLS connections with Frida; Allows TLS key extraction and decryption of TLS payload as PCAP on Android in real-time.

A tool designed to automate various Mobile Application Penetration Testing (MAPT) tasks and facilitate interaction with Android devices.

tools for exploiting device via ADB

Burp Suite extension that, working as a bridge between Burp and Frida, lets you use and manipulate the applications' own methods while tampering with the traffic exchanged between the applications and their back-end services/servers.

MPT (Mobile Pentest Toolkit) is a must-have solution for your Android penetration testing workflows. This tool allows you to automate security tasks.

software utility with a collection of forensic tools for smartphones. It performs read-only, forensically sound, non-destructive acquisition from Android devices.

custom build for penetration testing

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.

Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals

(Linux distro) Earlier, it used to be an online analyzer

ARE (android reverse engineering) is not under active development anymore

custom image for malware analysis

apk decompilation

powerful, integrates well with other tools

really useful for compilation/decompilation (uses smali)

make any application on the device debuggable (using Cydia Substrate).

dex to jar converter

dex to jar converter from Google

inject JavaScript to explore applications and a GUI tool for it

thread injection kit

Java decompiler

Java decompiler

Java decompiler

Java decompiler

Java decompiler

apk manipulation

GUI for reverse engineering

Another basic command-line reverse engineering tool

A CLI application that prepares Android APK files for HTTPS inspection

Simple Android application sandbox file browser tool

Obfuscapk is a modular Python tool for obfuscating Android apps without requiring their source code.

ARMAND (Anti-Repackaging through Multi-pattern, Anti-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.

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

a tool to exemplify patching Dalvik bytecode in a DEX (Dalvik Executable) file and assist in the static analysis of Android applications.

Run arbitrary code by patching OAT files

An all-in-one hacking tool to remotely exploit Android devices using ADB and Metasploit Framework to get a Meterpreter session.

plugin for VS code to analyze APKs

Java decompiler

, fork/mirror

.dex to .class converter

a tool for detecting repackaged Android applications based on app resources hash comparison.

get app details and download apps from the official Google Play Store.

download apps from Aptoide third-party Android market

download apps from Appland third-party Android market

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.

Online Service to download APK from the Play Store for a specific Android Device Configuration

Online apk downloader. Also, it provides its own app for downloading.

to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files

android-vts scans a device for set of vulnerabilities

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.

Bluetooth experimentation framework based on the Reverse Engineering of Broadcom Bluetooth Controllers

AMDH scans and hardens the device's settings and lists harmful installed Apps based on permissions.

Comprehensive mobile security framework supporting 18 manufacturers with baseband exploitation, cellular security, TEE/TrustZone research, and BootROM extraction tools.

Extract given archive to images

A flexible playground for Android CTF challenges

A collection of android Exploits and Hacks

Database of security features of Android devices

seems dead now

A reading room that contains well-categorized technical reading material about mobile penetration testing, mobile malware, mobile forensics, and all kinds of mobile security-related topics

click search

contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.

A Free cybercrime intelligence toolset that can indicate if a specific APK package was compromised in an Infostealer malware attack.

7 malware which have been reverse-engineered and documented

AndroZoo is a growing Android application collection from several sources, including the official Google Play app market.

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

List of Android Hackerone disclosed reports and other resources