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##Forensics Tools

  • Android Forensics - Open Source Android Forensics App and Framework

  • Android Data Extractor Lite

  • BitPim - BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers.

  • LiME - LiME (formerly DMD) is a Loadable Kernel Module (LKM), which allows the acquisition of volatile memory from Linux and Linux-based devices, such as those powered by Android.

  • Open Source Android Forensics

  • P2P-ADB - Phone to Phone Android Debug Bridge - A project for "debugging" phones from other phones.

  • pySimReader - It allows users to write out arbitrary raw SMS PDUs to a SIM card.

##Development Tools

  • Android SDK - The Android software development kit (SDK) includes a comprehensive set of development tools. These include a debugger, libraries, a handset emulator based on QEMU, documentation, sample code, and tutorials.

  • Android NDK - The NDK is a toolset that allows you to implement parts of your app using native-code languages such as C and C++.

  • ADT Bundle - The Android Developer Tools(ADT) bundle is a single download that contains everything for developers to start creating Android Application

    • Android Studio IDE or Eclipse IDE
    • Android SDK tools
    • Android 5.0 (Lollipop) Platform
    • Android 5.0 emulator system image with Google APIs

  • Root Tools - RootTools provides rooted developers a standardized set of tools for use in the development of rooted applications.

##Static Analysis Tools

  • Androwarn:- Yet another static code analyzer for malicious Android applications

  • ApkAnalyser - ApkAnalyser is a static, virtual analysis tool for examining and validating the development work of your Android app.

  • APKInspector - APKinspector is a powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyze the Android applications.

  • Error-Prone - Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors

  • FlowDroid - FlowDroid is a context-, flow-, field-, object-sensitive and lifecycle-aware static taint analysis tool for Android applications.

  • Lint - The Android lint tool is a static code analysis tool that checks your Android project source files for potential bugs and optimization improvements for correctness, security, performance, usability, accessibility, and internationalization.

  • Smali CFGs - Smali Control Flow Graph's

  • Smali and Baksmali - smali/baksmali is an assembler/disassembler for the dex format used by dalvik, Android's Java VM implementation.

  • Thresher - Thresher is a static analysis tool that specializes in checking heap reachability properties. Its secret sauce is using a coarse up-front points-to analysis to focus a precise symbolic analysis on the alarms reported by the points-to analysis.

##Dynamic Analysis Tools

  • Android Hooker - This project provides various tools and applications that can be use to automaticaly intercept and modify any API calls made by a targeted application.

  • Droidbox - DroidBox is developed to offer dynamic analysis of Android applications

  • Drozer - Drozer allows you to search for security vulnerabilities in apps and devices by assuming the role of an app and interacting with the Dalvik VM, other apps' IPC endpoints and the underlying OS.

  • Xposed Framework

##Reverse Engineering Tools

  • Androguard - Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications ... and more (ninja !)

  • Android loadble Kernel Modules - It is mostly used for reversing and debugging on controlled systems/emulators.

  • AndBug - Android Debugging Library

  • ApkTool - A tool for reverse engineering Android Apk Files

  • Bytecode-Viewer - A Java 8 Jar & Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decompiler, Editor, Debugger & More)

  • Dex2Jar - Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files

  • Fino - Android small footprint inspection tool

  • Introspy-Android - Blackbox tool to help understand what an Android application is doing at runtime and assist in the identification of potential security issues.

  • JD-Gui - Yet another fast Java Decompiler

  • JEB - The Interactive Android Decompiler

  • Simplify - Generic Android Deobfuscator

  • smali - An assembler/disassembler for Android's dex format

##Hooking Tools

  • ADBI Framework - Simple and easy to use toolkit for dynamic instrumentation of Dalvik code.

  • Cydia Substrate - Cydia Substrate for Android enables developers to make changes to existing software with Substrate extensions that are injected in to the target process's memory.

  • Xposed Framework - Xposed framework enables you to modify the system or application aspect and behaviour at runtime, without modifying any Android application package(APK) or re-flashing.

##Online Analyzers

  • AndroidTotal - AndroTotal is a free service to scan suspicious APKs against multiple mobile antivirus apps.

  • Anubis - Malware Analysis for Unknown Binaries.

  • App360Scan - Tells about permissons used by an Application and what harm it can cause to users.

  • CopperDroid - It automatically perform out-of-the-box dynamic behavioral analysis of Android malware.

  • Dexter - Dexter is an interactive Android software analysis environment with collaboration features.

  • Mobile Sandbox - The Mobile-Sandbox provides static and dynamic malware analysis combined with machine learning techniques for Android applications.

##Android Testing Distributions

  • Appie - A portable software package for Android Pentesting and an awesome alternative to existing Virtual machines.

  • Android Tamer - Android Tamer is a Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security professionals.

  • AppUse - AppUse is a VM (Virtual Machine) developed by AppSec Labs.

  • Mobisec - Mobile security testing live environment

  • Now Secure App Testing Suite:Community Edition

  • Santoku Linux - Santoku Linux is a virtual machine developed by NowSecure Mobile.

##Android Vulnerable Apps

##Android Malwares Database

##Tutorials

##Android Vulnerability List

##Android Security Libraries

  • Android Password Store

  • Android Pinning - A standalone library project for certificate pinning on Android.

  • Conceal By Facebook - Conceal provides easy Android APIs for performing fast encryption and authentication of data.

  • Dexguard - DexGuard is our specialized optimizer and obfuscator for Android. Create apps that are faster, more compact, and more difficult to crack.

  • Encryption - Encryption is a simple way to create encrypted strings to Android project.

  • CWAC-Security - Helping You Help Your Users Defend Their Data

  • IOCipher - IOCipher is a virtual encrypted disk for apps without requiring the device to be rooted.

  • NetCipher - This is an Android Library Project that provides multiple means to improve network security in mobile applications.

  • OpenPGP API - The OpenPGP API provides methods to execute OpenPGP operations, such as sign, encrypt, decrypt, verify, and more without user interaction from background threads.

  • OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer

  • Proguard - ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. It detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes.

  • Spongy Castle - a repackage of Bouncy Castle for Android

  • SQL Cipher - SQLCipher is an open source extension to SQLite that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption of database files.

  • Secure Preferences - Android Shared preference wrapper than encrypts the keys and values of Shared Preferences.

  • Trusted Intents - Library for flexible trusted interactions between Android apps

##Best Practices

##Books

Book Year Author Link
The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook 2015 Dominic Chell, Tyrone Erasmus, Jon Lindsay, Shaun Colley, Ollie Whitehouse Link
Android Hacker's Handbook 2014 Joshua J. Drake, Zach Lanier, Collin Mulliner, Pau Oliva, Stephen A. Ridley, Georg Wicherski Link
Android Security Internals 2014 Nikolay Elenkov Link
Learning Pentesting for Android 2014 Aditya Gupta Link
Android Security Cookbook 2013 Keith Makan, Scott-Alexander-Brown Link
Android Malware 2013 Xuxian Jiang, Yajin Zhou Link
Android Application Security Essentials 2013 Pragati Rai Link
Hacking Exposed Mobile Security Secrets & Solutions 2013 Neil Bergman, Mike Stanfield, Jason Rouse, Joel Scrambay, Sarath Geethakumar, Swapnil Deshmukh, John Steven, Mike Price, Scott Matsumoto Link
Android Security: Attacks and Defenses 2013 Anmol Misra, Abhishek Dubey Link
Mobile Phone Security and Forensics: A Practical Approach 2012 I.I. Androulidakis Link
Android Apps Security 2012 Sheran Gunasekera Link
Decompiling Android 2012 Godfrey Nolan Link
Mobile Application Security 2012 Himanshu Dwivedi, Chris Clark and David Thiel Link
XDA Developers' Android Hacker's Toolkit 2012 Jason Tyler, Will Verduzco Link
Android Forensics: Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Google Android' 2011 Andrew Hoog Link
Application Security for the Android Platform: Processes, Permissions, and Other Safeguards 2011 Jeff Six Link
Embedded Java Security: Security for Mobile Devices 2010 Mourad Debbabi, Mohamed Saleh, Chamseddine Talhi and Sami Zhioua Link

##Android Security Research Papers

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