Automated tools

This book is focused more on concepts rather than tools. However, automated tools often save us some time during penetration tests. The following are some of the most common automated tools that are available for automated assessments of Android applications.

Drozer and Quark are two different tools that may come in handy during your Android app assessments.

We will discuss many techniques such as hooking into application processes and performing runtime manipulations, reverse engineering, manually discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, and so on. However, this section focuses on using automated tools such as Drozer and Quark in order to get you started with the assessments.

Drozer

Drozer is a framework for Android security assessments ...

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