An effort to build a single place for all useful android and iOS security related stuff. All references and tools belong to their respective owners. I’m just maintaining it.
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
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
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