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Dec 08 - Dec 14, 2025
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- APKdevastate (⭐8) - Advanced analysis software for APK payloads created by RATs.
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Andriller (⭐1.5k) - software utility with a collection of forensic tools for smartphones. It performs read-only, forensically sound, non-destructive acquisition from Android devices.
Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2025
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- MPT (⭐36) - MPT (Mobile Pentest Toolkit) is a must-have solution for your Android penetration testing workflows. This tool allows you to automate security tasks.
Oct 13 - Oct 19, 2025
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Brida (⭐1.8k) - 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.
Aug 18 - Aug 24, 2025
Tools / Online Analyzers
- ANY.RUN - An interactive cloud-based malware analysis platform with support for Android application analysis. Limited free plan available.
Jul 28 - Aug 03, 2025
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- Detekt (⭐6.8k) - Static code analysis for Kotlin
Jul 21 - Jul 27, 2025
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- APKLab (⭐3.6k) - plugin for VS code to analyze APKs
Jun 23 - Jun 29, 2025
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- PhoneSpolit-Pro (⭐5.5k) - An all-in-one hacking tool to remotely exploit Android devices using ADB and Metasploit Framework to get a Meterpreter session.
Jun 16 - Jun 22, 2025
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- CFGScanDroid (⭐61) - Scans and compares the CFG against the CFG of malicious applications
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- AuditdAndroid (⭐47) – Android port of auditd, not under active development anymore
- Android Reverse Engineering – ARE (android reverse engineering) is not under active development anymore
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Frida - inject JavaScript to explore applications and a GUI tool (⭐182) for it
Tools / Market Crawlers
- APK Downloader Online Service to download APK from the Play Store for a specific Android Device Configuration
Tools / Misc Tools
- Internal Blue (⭐746) - Bluetooth experimentation framework based on the Reverse Engineering of Broadcom Bluetooth Controllers
Jun 09 - Jun 15, 2025
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- adbsploit (⭐861) - tools for exploiting device via ADB
May 19 - May 25, 2025
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- HacknDroid (⭐112) - A tool designed to automate various Mobile Application Penetration Testing (MAPT) tasks and facilitate interaction with Android devices.
Apr 14 - Apr 20, 2025
Tools / Online Analyzers
- 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 and limited to static analysis for the moment. It is possible to hunt malware with Yara rules. More here.
- 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.
- 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
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- SUPER (⭐425) - Secure, Unified, Powerful, and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer
- ClassyShark (⭐7.6k) - A Standalone binary inspection tool that can browse any Android executable and show important info.
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Aurasium (⭐39) – Practical security policy enforcement for Android apps via bytecode rewriting and in-place reference monitoring.
- friTap (⭐441)- Intercept SSL/TLS connections with Frida; Allows TLS key extraction and decryption of TLS payload as PCAP on Android in real-time.
- Android Malware Analysis Toolkit - (Linux distro) Earlier, it used to be an online analyzer
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Obfuscapk (⭐1.2k) — Obfuscapk is a modular Python tool for obfuscating Android apps without requiring their source code.
- ARMANDroid (⭐15) - 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.
- Dexmod (⭐64) - a tool to exemplify patching Dalvik bytecode in a DEX (Dalvik Executable) file and assist in the static analysis of Android applications.
- odex-patcher (⭐98) - Run arbitrary code by patching OAT files
Tools / Market Crawlers
- Apkpure - Online apk downloader. Also, it provides its own app for downloading.
Tools / Misc Tools
- Firmware Extractor (⭐340) - Extract given archive to images
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
- Mobile Security Reading Room - 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
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
- Hudson Rock - A Free cybercrime intelligence toolset that can indicate if a specific APK package was compromised in an Infostealer malware attack.
Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2025
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- SPARTA - verifies (proves) that an app satisfies an information-flow security policy; built on the Checker Framework
Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2024
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- 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 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.
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
- Android Malware Genome Project - contains 1260 malware samples categorized into 49 different malware families, free for research purposes.
Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2024
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- StaCoAn (⭐857) - 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.
Tools / App Repackaging Detectors
- FSquaDRA (⭐74) - a tool for detecting repackaged Android applications based on app resources hash comparison.
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Books
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
- AndroZoo - AndroZoo is a growing Android application collection from several sources, including the official Google Play app market.
Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2024
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Decompiler.com - Online APK and Java decompiler
- Android Tamer - Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security Professionals
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024
Tools / Online Analyzers
- approver - Approver is a fully automated security analysis and risk assessment platform for Android and iOS apps. Not free.
Jul 31 - Aug 06, 2023
Tools / Online Analyzers
- Koodous - Performs static/dynamic malware analysis over a vast repository of Android samples and checks them against public and private Yara rules.
- AMAaaS - Free Android Malware Analysis Service. A bare-metal service features static and dynamic analysis for Android applications. A product of MalwarePot.
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- Androwarn (⭐516) - detect and warn the user about potential malicious behaviors developed by an Android application.
- PSCout - A tool that extracts the permission specification from the Android OS source code using static analysis
- RiskInDroid (⭐158) - A tool for calculating the risk of Android apps based on their permissions, with an online demo available.
- JAADAS (⭐350) - Joint intraprocedural and interprocedural program analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in Android apps, built on Soot and Scala
Tools / App Vulnerability Scanners
- QARK (⭐3.3k) - QARK by LinkedIn is for app developers to scan apps for security issues
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Mobile-Security-Framework MobSF (⭐20k) - 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 (⭐2.9k) - Android Package Inspector - dynamic analysis with API hooks, start unexported activities, and more. (Xposed Module)
- MARA (⭐659) - 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 (⭐375) - 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.
- PAPIMonitor (⭐83) – PAPIMonitor (Python API Monitor for Android apps) is a Python tool based on Frida for monitoring user-select APIs during the app execution.
- Android_application_analyzer (⭐169) - The tool is used to analyze the content of the Android application in local storage.
- AppUse – custom build for penetration testing
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Android OpenDebug (⭐135) – make any application on the device debuggable (using Cydia Substrate).
Tools / Fuzz Testing
Tools / Market Crawlers
- Google Play crawler (Node) (⭐279) - get app details and download apps from the official Google Play Store.
Tools / Misc Tools
- AppMon (⭐1.6k)- 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.
- Android Mobile Device Hardening (⭐216) - AMDH scans and hardens the device's settings and lists harmful installed Apps based on permissions.
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Research Papers
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
- Kharon Malware Dataset - 7 malware which have been reverse-engineered and documented
- Android PRAGuard Dataset - The dataset contains 10479 samples, obtained by obfuscating the MalGenome and the Contagio Minidump datasets with seven different obfuscation techniques.
May 01 - May 07, 2023
Tools / Fuzz Testing
Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2023
Tools / Online Analyzers
- Appknox - not free
- Virustotal - max 128MB
- Fraunhofer App-ray - not free
- 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
- AppSweep by Guardsquare - Free, fast Android application security testing for developers
- AppCritique - Upload your Android APKs and receive comprehensive free security assessments
- NVISO ApkScan - sunsetting on Oct 31, 2019
- IBM Security AppScan Mobile Analyzer - not free
- Visual Threat - no longer an Android app analyzer
- habo - 10/day
- Fireeye- max 60MB 15/day
Tools / Static Analysis Tools
- Android Decompiler – not free
- SmaliSCA (⭐325) - Smali Static Code Analysis
- Madrolyzer (⭐110) - extracts actionable data like C&C, phone number etc.
- ConDroid (⭐57) - Performs a combination of symbolic + concrete execution of the app
- Quark-Engine (⭐1.6k) - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System
- One Step Decompiler (⭐287) - Android APK Decompilation for the Lazy
- APKLeaks (⭐5.7k) - Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.
- Mobile Audit (⭐223) - Web application for performing Static Analysis and detecting malware in Android APKs.
Tools / App Vulnerability Scanners
- Devknox - IDE plugin to build secure Android apps. Not maintained anymore.
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Androl4b (⭐1.2k)- A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
- House (⭐1.5k)- House: A runtime mobile application analysis toolkit with a Web GUI, powered by Frida, written in Python.
- Android Hooker (⭐413) - Dynamic Java code instrumentation (requires the Substrate Framework)
- ProbeDroid (⭐200) - Dynamic Java code instrumentation
- DECAF (⭐833) - Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework based on QEMU (DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF)
- CuckooDroid (⭐597) - Android extension for Cuckoo sandbox
- Mem (⭐69) - Memory analysis of Android (root required)
- Crowdroid – unable to find the actual tool
- Android Security Evaluation Framework - not under active development anymore
- StaDynA (⭐25) - 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.
- DroidAnalytics (⭐30) - incomplete
- Vezir Project (⭐112) - Virtual Machine for Mobile Application Pentesting and Mobile Malware Analysis
- Taintdroid - requires AOSP compilation
- Runtime Mobile Security (RMS) (⭐2.9k) - is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime
- Cobradroid – custom image for malware analysis
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Androguard (⭐5.9k) – powerful, integrates well with other tools
- Apktool – really useful for compilation/decompilation (uses smali)
- Dex2Jar (⭐13k) - dex to jar converter
- Enjarify (⭐2.7k) - dex to jar converter from Google
- Indroid – thread injection kit
- Jad - Java decompiler
- JD-GUI (⭐15k) - Java decompiler
- CFR - Java decompiler
- Krakatau (⭐2.2k) - Java decompiler
- FernFlower (⭐4.1k) - Java decompiler
- Redexer (⭐172) – apk manipulation
- Dwarf (⭐1.3k) - GUI for reverse engineering
- Andromeda (⭐712) - Another basic command-line reverse engineering tool
- apk-mitm (⭐4.8k) - A CLI application that prepares Android APK files for HTTPS inspection
- Noia (⭐124) - Simple Android application sandbox file browser tool
- MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) (⭐12k) - 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
- Procyon - Java decompiler
- Dare – .dex to .class converter
Tools / Fuzz Testing
Tools / Market Crawlers
- Aptoide downloader (Node) (⭐26) - download apps from Aptoide third-party Android market
- Appland downloader (Node) (⭐19) - download apps from Appland third-party Android market
- PlaystoreDownloader (⭐1.2k) - 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.
Tools / Misc Tools
- AXMLPrinter2 - to convert binary XML files to human-readable XML files
- Android Vulnerability Test Suite (⭐1k) - android-vts scans a device for set of vulnerabilities
- Android Device Security Database - Database of security features of Android devices
- APK-Downloader - seems dead now
Tools / Vulnerable Applications for practice
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Research Papers
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / List
- Exploit Database - click search
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Malware
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / How to report Security issues
- Android Reports and Resources (⭐1.6k) - List of Android Hackerone disclosed reports and other resources
Nov 22 - Nov 28, 2021
Tools / Vulnerable Applications for practice
Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020
Tools / Vulnerable Applications for practice
Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2019
Tools / Dynamic Analysis Tools
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Research Papers
Academic/Research/Publications/Books / Others
Feb 13 - Feb 19, 2017
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / List
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / Bounty Programs
Exploits/Vulnerabilities/Bugs / How to report Security issues
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2016
Tools / Reverse Engineering
- Smali/Baksmali (⭐6.6k) – apk decompilation
Jul 28 - Aug 03, 2014
Tools / Online Analyzers
Tools / Misc Tools