Android Arsenal – Reverse engineering tools

by do son · Published · Updated

  • Androguard – reverse engineering , Android app malware and good software analysis
  • Android Apk decompiler – Online decompile for Apk and Dex Android files
  • Android loadble kernel module – it is mainly used in the controlled system/simulator on the reverse and debugging.
  • AndBug – Android debug library
  • ApkTool – tool for reverse engineering Android Apk files
  • APK Studio – APK Studio is an IDE for decompiling / editing in a single user interface and then recompiling Android application binaries.
  • Bytecode-Viewer – A Java 8 Jar and Android APK Reverse Engineering Suite (Decoder, Editor, Debugger, etc.)
  • CodeInspect – Jimple-based reverse engineering framework for Android and Java applications.
  • Dedex – Command-line tool for disassembling Android DEX files.
  • Dextra – dextra utility started its life as a replacement for AOSP’s dexdump and dx-dump, both of which are quite basic and produce rich but unstructured output. In addition to supporting all the features, it also supports a variety of output patterns, specific classes, methods and field lookups, as well as determining static field values. I updated it to support ART
  • Dex2Jar – Tools that use the android .dex and java .class files
  • Dexdisassembler – a GTK tool for removing Android DEX files.
  • Enjarify – Enjarify is a tool for converting Dalvik bytecode to equivalent Java bytecode. This allows Java analysis tools to analyze Android applications.
  • Fern Flower – FernFlower Java Decompiler
  • Fino – Android small detection tool
  • The Introspy-Android -Blackbox tool helps you understand what your Android application does at runtime and helps identify potential security issues.
  • JD-Gui – fast Java decompressor , easy to read java source code
  • JEB – Interactive Android Decompiler
  • Smali_emulator – simulates smali source files generated by apktool, for example, to cancel obfuscation and encryption in APKs.
  • Strongdb – Strongdb is a gdb plugin written in Python that helps debug Android Native programs. The main code uses the gdb Python API.
  • Xenotix APK Reverser – an open source Android application package (APK) decompile and disassemble by dex2jar, baksmali and jd-core

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