Android Pentesting – Best Android Tools For Security Audit and Hacking

Security researchers have long maintained that malware is a problem on Android, the Google operating system that’s on 80% of the world’s smartphones. In extreme cases, hackers with malicious intent can do much more than send premium text messages.

In this post, we will see various apps for web application penetration testing, network penetration testing, sniffing, networking hacking and Android apps penetration testing.

Hackode

Hackode : The hacker’s Toolbox is an application for penetration tester, Ethical hackers, IT administrator and Cyber security professional to perform different tasks like reconnaissance, scanning performing exploits etc.

This Application contains different tools like:

• Reconnaissance
• Google Hacking
• Google Dorks
• Whois
• Scanning
• Ping
• Traceroute
• DNS lookup
• IP
• MX Records
• DNS Dig
• Exploits
• Security Rss Feed

Download Hackode

AndroRat

Remote Administration Tool for Android. The name Androrat is a mix of Android and RAT (Remote Access Tool). Androrat is a client/server application developed in Java Android for the client side and in Java/Swing for the Server.

Available functionalities:

• Get contacts (and all theirs informations)
• Get call logs
• Get all messages
• Location by GPS/Network
• Monitoring received messages in live
• Monitoring phone state in live (call received, call sent, call missed..)
• Take a picture from the camera
• Stream sound from microphone (or other sources..)
• Streaming video (for activity based client only)
• Do a toast
• Send a text message
• Give call
• Open an URL in the default browser
• Do vibrate the phone

Download AndroRat

APK Inspector

The goal of this project is to aide analysts and reverse engineers to visualize compiled Android packages and their corresponding DEX code. APKInspector provides both analysis functions and graphic features for the users to gain deep insight into the malicious apps:

• CFG
• Call Graph
• Static Instrumentation
• Permission Analysis
• Dalvik codes
• Smali codes
• Java codes
• APK Information

Download APK Inspector

DroidBox

DroidBox is developed to offer dynamic analysis of Android applications. The following information is shown in the results, generated when analysis is ended:

• Hashes for the analyzed package
• Incoming/outgoing network data
• File read and write operations
• Started services and loaded classes through DexClassLoader
• Information leaks via the network, file and SMS
• Circumvented permissions
• Cryptography operations performed using Android API
• Listing broadcast receivers
• Sent SMS and phone calls

Download DroidBox

Zanti

zANTI is a comprehensive network diagnostics toolkit that enables complex audits and penetration tests at the push of a button. It provides cloud-based reporting that walks you through simple guidelines to ensure network safety.

Options include:

• Network Map
• Port Discovery
• Packet Manipulation
• Sniffer
• MITM (Man in the Middle filters)
• DoS (Pentest DoS vulnerabilities)
• Password Complexity Audit
• Penetrate CSE to check server/desktop vulnerabilty

Download Zanti

DroidSheep

DroidSheep is a simple Android tool for web session hijacking (sidejacking). It listens for HTTP packets sent via a wireless (802.11) network connection and extracts the session id from these packets in order to reuse them.DroidSheep can capture sessions using the libpcap library and supports: OPEN Networks WEP encrypted networks WPA and WPA2 encrypted networks (PSK only)

DroidSheep is not intended to steal identities or endamage anybody, but to show the weak security of non-ssl webservices

Download DroidSheep

dSploit

dSploit is an Android network analysis and penetration suite which aims to offer to IT security experts/geeks the most complete and advanced professional toolkit to perform network security assessments on a mobile device.

Features

AppUse – Android Pentest Platform Unified Standalone Environment:

AppUse Virtual Machine, developed by AppSec Labs, is a unique (and free) system, a platform for mobile application security testing in the android environment, and it includes unique custom-made tools.

Features

•  New Application Data Section
•  Tree-view of the application’s folder/file structure
•  Ability to pull files
•  Ability to view files
•  Ability to edit files
•  Ability to extract databases
•  Dynamic proxy managed via the Dashboard
•  New application-reversing features
•  Updated ReFrameworker tool
•  Dynamic indicator for Android device status
•  Bugs and functionality fixes

Download AppUse – Android Pentest Platform Unified Standalone Environment:

Shark for Root

Traffic sniffer, works on 3G and WiFi (works on FroYo tethered mode too). To open dump use WireShark or similar software, for preview dump on phone use Shark Reader. Based on tcpdump. Please leave comments/send e-mail if you have any problems/suggestions.

Download Shark for Root

Android Device Testing Framework

The Android Device Testing Framework (“dtf”) is a data collection and analysis framework to help individuals answer the question: “Where are the vulnerabilities on this mobile device?” Dtf provides a modular approach and built-in APIs that allows testers to quickly create scripts to interact with their Android devices. The default download of dtf comes with multiple modules that allow testers to obtain information from their Android device, process this information into databases, and then start searching for vulnerabilities (all without requiring root privileges). These modules help you focus on changes made to AOSP components such as applications, frameworks, system services, as well as lower-level components such as binaries, libraries, and device drivers. In addition, you’ll be able to analyze new functionality implemented by the OEMs and other parties to find vulnerabilities.

Download Android DTF

Drozer

drozer (formerly Mercury) is the leading security testing framework for Android.

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.

drozer provides tools to help you use, share and understand public Android exploits. It helps you to deploy a drozer Agent to a device through exploitation or social engineering. Using weasel (MWR’s advanced exploitation payload) drozer is able to maximise the permissions available to it by installing a full agent, injecting a limited agent into a running process, or connecting a reverse shell to act as a Remote Access Tool (RAT).

Download Drozer

NeoPwn

Neopwn is an advanced penetration testing and radio frequency auditing platform designed to run on mobile phones and tablets. We were the first to ever release a security auditing distribution for a mobile phone, and we continue to push the envelope in supporting the latest bleeding-edge tools and hardware.

Several options exist for local and remote control of the Neopwn system, including:

• Android-based control panel application for system management
• Desktop interface via VNC, for full X windows programs
• Shell access with native Android terminal emulation applications
• Quick application access with native Android desktop icon launchers
• Remote access through VPN and SSH

Download NeoPwn

ASEF – Android Security Evaluation Framework

Have you ever looked at your Android applications and wondered if they are watching you as well? Whether it’s a bandwidth-hogging app, aggressive adware or even malware, it would be interesting to know if they are doing more than what they are supposed to and if your personal information is exposed. Is there really a way to automatically evaluate all your apps – even hundreds of them – to harvest their behavioral data, analyze their run pattern, and at the same time provide an interface to facilitate a vast majority of evolving security tests with most practical solutions?

Android Security Evaluation Framework (ASEF) performs this analysis while alerting you about other possible issues. It will make you aware of unusual activities of your apps, will expose vulnerable components and help narrow down suspicious apps for further manual research. ASEF is an Open Source tool for scanning Android Devices for security evaluation. Users will gain access to security aspects of android apps by using this tool with its default settings

Download ASEF

AndroGuard

Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications … and more

Features:

• Map and manipulate DEX/ODEX/APK/AXML/ARSC format into full Python objects,
• Diassemble/Decompilation/Modification of DEX/ODEX/APK format,
• Decompilation with the first native (directly from dalvik bytecodes to java source codes) dalvik decompiler (DAD),
• Access to the static analysis of the code (basic blocks, instructions, permissions (with database from http://www.android-permissions.org/) …) and create your own static analysis tool,
• Analysis a bunch of android apps,
• Analysis with ipython/Sublime Text Editor,
• Diffing of android applications,
• Measure the efficiency of obfuscators (proguard, …),
• Determine if your application has been pirated (plagiarism/similarities/rip-off indicator),
• Check if an android application is present in a database (malwares, goodwares ?),
• Open source database of android malware (this opensource database is done on my free time, of course my free time is limited, so if you want to help, you are welcome !),
• Detection of ad/open source librairies (WIP),
• Risk indicator of malicious application,
• Reverse engineering of applications (goodwares, malwares),
• Transform Android’s binary xml (like AndroidManifest.xml) into classic xml,
• Visualize your application with gephi (gexf format), or with cytoscape (xgmml format), or PNG/DOT output,
• Integration with external decompilers (JAD+dex2jar/DED/…)

Download AndroGuard

Revenssis

Nicknamed as the “Smartphone Version of Backtrack”, Revenssis Penetration Suite is a set of all the useful types of tools used in Computer and Web Application security. Tools available in it include: Web App scanners, Encode/Decode & Hashing tools, Vulnerability Research Lab, Forensics Lab, plus the must-have utilities (Shell, SSH, DNS/WHOIS Lookup, Traceroute, Port Scanner, Spam DB Lookup, Netstat… etc). All these fitting in an application approx. 10MB (post installation).

Features

• All Web Vulnerability Scanners including:
• SQL injection scanner
• XSS scanner
• DDOS scanner
• CSRF scanner
• SSL misconfiguration scanner
• Remote and Local File Inclusion (RFI/LFI) scanners
• Useful utilities such as:
• WHOIS lookup, IP finder, Shell, SSH, Blacklist lookup tool, Ping tool,
• Forensic tools (in imlementation) such as malware analyzers, hash crackers, network sniffer, ZIP/RAR password finder, social engineering toolset, reverse engineering tool
• Vulnerability research lab (sources include: Shodan vulnerability search engine, ExploitSearch, Exploit DB, OSVDB and NVD NIST
• Self scan and Defence tools for your Android phone against vulnerabilities
• Connectivity Security Tools for Bluetooth, Wifi and Internet. (NFC, Wifi Direct and USB in implementation)

Download Revenssis

SPF – Smartphone Pentest Framework

The product of a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant, the Smartphone Pentest Framework is an open source security tool, designed to aid in assessing the security posture of smartphones in an environment. SPF Version 0.1 contains remote attacks, client side attacks, social engineering attacks, and post exploitation, targeting smartphone devices.

Download SPF

Bugtroid

Bugtroid is an innovative tool developed by the team of Bugtraq-Team. The main features of this apk, is that it has more than 200 Android and Linux tools (PRO) for pentesting and forensics through smarthphone or tablet.

Download Bugtroid

OWASP Droid Fusion

OWASP Droid Fusion is a platform for android mobile or any other mobile for doing Malware Analysis, Development, Application Pentesting and Forensics. You can use it in any mobile security research, and if you have Droid Fusion, you don’t need to worry about finding tools. There are more then 60 tools and scripts and it is free.

Download Owasp Droid Fusion

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