AndroShield - Automated Vulnerability Detection of Android Applications Web Application

This reposatory hosts the AndroShield ASP.NET web application. AndroShield generates reports of detected vulnerabilities in Android applications using static and dynamic analysis methodologies.

Full paper could be found here.

Features

1. Extract general information about the APK
   • Package Name
   • Version Name
   • Version Code
   • Minimum SDK Version
   • Target SDK Version
   • Test Only Flag (Yes/No)
2. Detect static vulnerabilities
   • Debug Mode (Yes/No)
   • Backup Mode (Yes/No)
   • Information Leaks
   • Exported Components
3. Detect dynamic vulnerabilities
   • Insecure Network Requests (Http)
   • Intent crashes
4. Generate report containing all the extracted information and the detected vulnerabilities.
5. Store the reports in users' account.

Developing Environment

• Visual Studio (Tested on 2015/2017)
• SQL Server/Visual Studio SQL Server
• JDK 8
• python 2.7 and pip
• git (For sh commands)
• Android Studio Emulator X86 Oreo version

Installation Steps

Check Installation steps for how to use the project. We are trying to make these steps compatible with different versions of development environment.

Check Sample Apps for APKs to use for testing.

Contributors

• Amr Amin
• Nouran Abdeen
• MennaTullah Magdy
• Amgad ElDessouki
• Hanan Hindy
• Islam Hegazy

Contributing to AndroShield

Contributions are always welcome. AndroShield is an open source project that we published in the hope that it will be useful to the research and industry community.

Citation

@article{amin2019androshield,
  title={AndroShield: Automated Android Applications Vulnerability Detection, a Hybrid Static and Dynamic Analysis Approach},
  author={Amin, Amr and Eldessouki, Amgad and Magdy, Menna Tullah and Abdeen, Nouran and Hindy, Hanan and Hegazy, Islam},
  journal={Information},
  volume={10},
  number={10},
  pages={326},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}
}

License

AndroShield is licensed under the LGPL license, see LICENSE file. This basically means that you are free to use the tool (even in commercial, closed-source projects). However, if you extend or modify the tool, you must make your changes available under the LGPL as well. This ensures that we can continue to improve the tool as a community effort.