awesome-mobile-security

Maintained by @vaib25vicky with contributions from the security and developer communities.

Android

General - Blogs, Papers, How To’s

• Android: Gaining access to arbitrary* Content Providers
• Evernote: Universal-XSS, theft of all cookies from all sites, and more
• Interception of Android implicit intents
• TikTok: three persistent arbitrary code executions and one theft of arbitrary files
• Persistent arbitrary code execution in Android’s Google Play Core Library: details, explanation and the PoC - CVE-2020-8913
• Android: Access to app protected components
• Android: arbitrary code execution via third-party package contexts
• Android Pentesting Labs - Step by Step guide for beginners
• An Android Hacking Primer
• Secure an Android Device
• Security tips
• OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide
• Security Testing for Android Cross Platform Application
• Dive deep into Android Application Security
• Pentesting Android Apps Using Frida
• Mobile Security Testing Guide
• Mobile Application Penetration Testing Cheat Sheet
• Android Applications Reversing 101
• Android Security Guidelines
• Android WebView Vulnerabilities
• OWASP Mobile Top 10
• Practical Android Phone Forensics
• Mobile Reverse Engineering Unleashed
• Android Root Detection Bypass Using Objection and Frida Scripts
• quark-engine - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System
• Root Detection Bypass By Manual Code Manipulation.
• Application and Network Usage in Android
• GEOST BOTNET - the discovery story of a new Android banking trojan
• Mobile Pentesting With Frida
• Magisk Systemless Root - Detection and Remediation
• AndrODet: An adaptive Android obfuscation detector
• Hands On Mobile API Security
• Zero to Hero - Mobile Application Testing - Android Platform
• How to use FRIDA to bruteforce Secure Startup with FDE-encryption on a Samsung G935F running Android 8
• Android Malware Adventures
• AAPG - Android application penetration testing guide
• Bypassing Android Anti-Emulation
• Bypassing Xamarin Certificate Pinning
• Configuring Burp Suite With Android Nougat

Books

• SEI CERT Android Secure Coding Standard
• Android Security Internals
• Android Cookbook
• Android Hacker’s Handbook
• Android Security Cookbook
• The Mobile Application Hacker’s Handbook
• Android Malware and Analysis
• Android Security: Attacks and Defenses

Courses

• Learning-Android-Security
• Mobile Application Security and Penetration Testing
• Advanced Android Development
• Learn the art of mobile app development
• Learning Android Malware Analysis
• Android App Reverse Engineering 101
• Android Pentesting for Beginners

Tools

Static Analysis

• Amandroid – A Static Analysis Framework
• Androwarn – Yet Another Static Code Analyzer
• APK Analyzer – Static and Virtual Analysis Tool
• APK Inspector – A Powerful GUI Tool
• Droid Hunter – Android application vulnerability analysis and Android pentest tool
• Error Prone – Static Analysis Tool
• Findbugs – Find Bugs in Java Programs
• Find Security Bugs – A SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications.
• Flow Droid – Static Data Flow Tracker
• Smali/Baksmali – Assembler/Disassembler for the dex format
• Smali-CFGs – Smali Control Flow Graph’s
• SPARTA – Static Program Analysis for Reliable Trusted Apps
• Thresher – To check heap reachability properties
• Vector Attack Scanner – To search vulnerable points to attack
• Gradle Static Analysis Plugin
• Checkstyle – A tool for checking Java source code
• PMD – An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer
• Soot – A Java Optimization Framework
• Android Quality Starter
• QARK – Quick Android Review Kit
• Infer – A Static Analysis tool for Java, C, C++ and Objective-C
• Android Check – Static Code analysis plugin for Android Project
• FindBugs-IDEA Static byte code analysis to look for bugs in Java code
• APK Leaks – Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets

Dynamic Analysis

• Adhrit - Android Security Suite for in-depth reconnaissance and static bytecode analysis based on Ghera benchmarks
• Android Hooker - Opensource project for dynamic analyses of Android applications
• AppAudit - Online tool ( including an API) uses dynamic and static analysis
• AppAudit - A bare-metal analysis tool on Android devices
• CuckooDroid - Extension of Cuckoo Sandbox the Open Source software
• DroidBox - Dynamic analysis of Android applications
• Droid-FF - Android File Fuzzing Framework
• Drozer
• Marvin - Analyzes Android applications and allows tracking of an app
• Inspeckage
• PATDroid - Collection of tools and data structures for analyzing Android applications
• AndroL4b - Android security virtual machine based on ubuntu-mate
• Radare2 - Unix-like reverse engineering framework and commandline tools
• Cutter - Free and Open Source RE Platform powered by radare2
• ByteCodeViewer - Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decompiler, Editor, Debugger)
• Mobile-Security-Framework MobSF
• CobraDroid - Custom build of the Android operating system geared specifically for application security
• Magisk v20.2 - Root & Universal Systemless Interface
• Runtime Mobile Security (RMS) - is a powerful web interface that helps you to manipulate Android and iOS Apps at Runtime
• MOBEXLER - A Mobile Application Penetration Testing Platform

Android Online APK Analyzers

• Oversecured - A static vulnerability scanner for Android apps (APK files) containing 90+ vulnerability categories
• Android Observatory APK Scan
• Android APK Decompiler
• AndroTotal
• NVISO ApkScan
• VirusTotal
• Scan Your APK
• AVC Undroid
• OPSWAT
• ImmuniWeb Mobile App Scanner
• Ostor Lab
• Quixxi
• TraceDroid
• Visual Threat
• App Critique

Labs

• OVAA (Oversecured Vulnerable Android App)
• DIVA (Damn insecure and vulnerable App)
• SecurityShepherd
• Damn Vulnerable Hybrid Mobile App (DVHMA)
• OWASP-mstg
• VulnerableAndroidAppOracle
• Android InsecureBankv2
• Purposefully Insecure and Vulnerable Android Application (PIIVA)
• Sieve app
• DodoVulnerableBank
• Digitalbank
• OWASP GoatDroid
• AppKnox Vulnerable Application
• Vulnerable Android Application
• MoshZuk
• Hackme Bank
• Android Security Labs
• Android-InsecureBankv2
• Android-security
• VulnDroid
• FridaLab
• Santoku Linux - Mobile Security VM
• Vuldroid

Talks

• Blowing the Cover of Android Binary Fuzzing (Slides)
• One Step Ahead of Cheaters – Instrumenting Android Emulators
• Vulnerable Out of the Box: An Evaluation of Android Carrier Devices
• Rock appround the clock: Tracking malware developers by Android
• Chaosdata - Ghost in the Droid: Possessing Android Applications with ParaSpectre
• Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a Bug in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Chipsets
• Honey, I Shrunk the Attack Surface – Adventures in Android Security Hardening
• Hide Android Applications in Images
• Scary Code in the Heart of Android
• Fuzzing Android: A Recipe For Uncovering Vulnerabilities Inside System Components In Android
• Unpacking the Packed Unpacker: Reverse Engineering an Android Anti-Analysis Native Library
• Android FakeID Vulnerability Walkthrough
• Unleashing D* on Android Kernel Drivers
• The Smarts Behind Hacking Dumb Devices
• Overview of common Android app vulnerabilities
• Android Dev Summit 2019
• Android security architecture
• Get the Ultimate Privilege of Android Phone

Misc.

• Android-Reports-and-Resources
• android-security-awesome
• Android Penetration Testing Courses
• Lesser-known Tools for Android Application PenTesting
• android-device-check - a set of scripts to check Android device security configuration
• apk-mitm - a CLI application that prepares Android APK files for HTTPS inspection
• Andriller - is software utility with a collection of forensic tools for smartphones
• Dexofuzzy: Android malware similarity clustering method using opcode sequence-Paper
• Chasing the Joker
• Side Channel Attacks in 4G and 5G Cellular Networks-Slides
• Shodan.io-mobile-app for Android
• Popular Android Malware 2018
• Popular Android Malware 2019
• Popular Android Malware 2020

iOS

General - Blogs, Papers, How to’s

• iOS Security
• Basic iOS Apps Security Testing lab
• IOS Application security – Setting up a mobile pentesting platform
• Collection of the most common vulnerabilities found in iOS applications
• IOS_Application_Security_Testing_Cheat_Sheet
• OWASP iOS Basic Security Testing
• Dynamic analysis of iOS apps w/o Jailbreak
• iOS Application Injection
• Low-Hanging Apples: Hunting Credentials and Secrets in iOS Apps
• Checkra1n Era - series
• BFU Extraction: Forensic Analysis of Locked and Disabled iPhones
• HowTo-decrypt-Signal.sqlite-for-IOS
• Can I Jailbreak?
• How to Extract Screen Time Passcodes and Voice Memos from iCloud
• Reverse Engineering Swift Apps
• Mettle your iOS with FRIDA
• A run-time approach for pentesting iOS applications
• iOS Internals vol 2
• Understanding usbmux and the iOS lockdown service
• A Deep Dive into iOS Code Signing
• AirDoS: remotely render any nearby iPhone or iPad unusable
• How to access and traverse a #checkra1n jailbroken iPhone File system using SSH
• Deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild - Project Zero
• The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone - Project Zero

Books

• Hacking and Securing iOS Applications: Stealing Data, Hijacking Software, and How to Prevent It
• iOS Penetration Testing
• iOS App Security, Penetration Testing, and Development
• IOS Hacker’s Handbook
• Hacking iOS Applications a detailed testing guide
• Develop iOS Apps (Swift)
• iOS Programming Cookbook

Courses

• Pentesting iOS Applications
• Reverse Engineering iOS Applications
• App Design and Development for iOS

Tools

• Cydia Impactor
• checkra1n jailbreak
• idb - iOS App Security Assessment Tool
• Frida
• Objection - mobile exploration toolkit by Frida
• Bfinject
• iFunbox
• Libimobiledevice - library to communicate with the services of the Apple ios devices
• iRET (iOS Reverse Engineering Toolkit) - includes oTool, dumpDecrypted, SQLite, Theos, Keychain_dumper, Plutil
• Myriam iOS
• iWep Pro - wireless suite of useful applications used to turn your iOS device into a wireless network diagnostic tool
• Burp Suite
• Cycript
• needle - The iOS Security Testing Framework
• iLEAPP - iOS Logs, Events, And Preferences Parser
• Cutter - Free and Open Source RE Platform powered by radare2
• decrypt0r - automatically download and decrypt SecureRom stuff
• iOS Security Suite - an advanced and easy-to-use platform security & anti-tampering library

Labs

• OWASP iGoat
• Damn Vulnerable iOS App (DVIA) v2
• Damn Vulnerable iOS App (DVIA) v1
• iPhoneLabs
• iOS-Attack-Defense

Talks

• Behind the Scenes of iOS Security
• Modern iOS Application Security
• Demystifying the Secure Enclave Processor
• HackPac Hacking Pointer Authentication in iOS User Space
• Analyzing and Attacking Apple Kernel Drivers
• Remotely Compromising iOS via Wi-Fi and Escaping the Sandbox
• Reverse Engineering iOS Mobile Apps
• iOS 10 Kernel Heap Revisited
• KTRW: The journey to build a debuggable iPhone
• The One Weird Trick SecureROM Hates
• Tales of old: untethering iOS 11-Spoiler: Apple is bad at patching
• Messenger Hacking: Remotely Compromising an iPhone through iMessage
• Recreating An iOS 0-Day Jailbreak Out Of Apple’s Security Updates
• Reverse Engineering the iOS Simulator’s SpringBoard
• Attacking iPhone XS Max

Misc.

• Most usable tools for iOS penetration testing
• iOS-Security-Guides
• osx-security-awesome - OSX and iOS related security tools
• Trust in Apple’s Secret Garden: Exploring & Reversing Apple’s Continuity Protocol-Slides
• Apple Platform Security
• Mobile security, forensics & malware analysis with Santoku Linux