Android's reported security vulnerabilities

Google Android Security Team’s Classifications for Potentially Harmful Applications (Malware)

OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide Manual

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

androguard - Database Android Malwares wiki

Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purpose.

VirusTotal Malware Intelligence Service - powered by VirusTotal, not free

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.

AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files

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

AppMon- 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 - Bluetooth experimentation framework based on Reverse Engineering of Broadcom Bluetooth Controllers

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

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

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

Aptoide downloader (Node) - download apps from Aptoide third-party Android market

Appland downloader (Node) - download apps from Appland third-party Android market

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

PlaystoreDownloader - 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.

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

A good collection of static analysis papers

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

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

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 

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

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.

Androguard – powerful, integrates well with other tools

Apktool – really useful for compilation/decompilation (uses smali)

Bypass signature and permission checks for IPCs

Android OpenDebug – make any application on device debuggable (using cydia substrate).

Enjarify - dex to jar converter from Google

Frida - inject javascript to explore applications and a 

Andromeda - Another basic command-line reverse engineering tool

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

Noia - Simple Android application sandbox file browser tool

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

ARMANDroid - 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.

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) - 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

Decompiler.com - Online APK and Java decompiler

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

Droid Intent Data Flow Analysis for Information Leakage

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

CFGScanDroid - Scans and compares CFG against CFG of malicious applications

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

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

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

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

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

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

StaCoAn - 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.

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

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

One Step Decompiler - Android APK Decompilation for the Lazy

APKLeaks - Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints &amp; secrets.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

ProbeDroid - Dynamic Java code instrumentation

Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals

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

CuckooDroid - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox

Mem - Memory analysis of Android (root required)

Crowdroid – unable to find the actual tool

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

Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore

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

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.

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.

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

MARA - Mobile Application Reverse engineering and Analysis Framework

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.

AndroPyTool - 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.

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

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

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

FSquaDRA - a tool for detection of repackaged Android applications based on app resources hash comparison.

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

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

Damn Insecure Vulnerable Application (DIVA)

Oversecured Vulnerable Android App (OVAA)

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