discovered 30 Mar 2026
awesome-mobile-security
→ View on GitHubAI Summary: The “awesome-mobile-security” repository serves as a comprehensive resource for mobile security professionals, aggregating a wide range of blogs, papers, and how-to resources relevant to Android security and penetration testing. Its primary use case is to provide guidance and knowledge on mobile application vulnerabilities, security testing methodologies, and tools, making it a valuable asset for those aiming to improve mobile application security. Notable features include links to various security guides, OWASP resources, and pentesting labs, enabling users to deepen their understanding and practical skills in mobile security.
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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
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