Android Pentesting Portable Integrated Environment: Appie

Appie is a software package that has been pre-configured to function as an Android Pentesting Environment.

It is completely portable and can be carried on USB stick or your smartphone. It is one of its kind Android Security Analysis Tool and is a one stop answer for all the tools needed in Android Application Security Assessment, Android Forensics, Android Malware Analysis.

Why Appie was created ?


Just because i wanted something awesome instead of traditional virtual machines.

Difference between Appie and existing environments ?

  •   Tools contained in Appie are running on host machine instead of running on virtual machine.
  •     Less Space Needed(Only 800MB compared to atleast 10 GB of Virual Machine)
  •     As the name suggests it is completely Portable i.e it can be carried on USB Stick or on your own smartphone and your pentesting environment will go wherever you go without any configuring changes.
  •     Awesome Interface :)

Getting Started

  • Download the file.
  • Unzip the file.
  • Click on the executable Appie in the extracted folder.

Usage

  •     Androguard Usage
You can use any file from androguard project by just typing it’s filename , like given below.


  • Pidcat Usage
In order view logcat entries for org.owasp.goatdroid.fourgoats, type pidcat org.owasp.goatdroid.fourgoats in Appie and you would see something similar.


  • Wireshark Usage
Type wireshark in Appie console to open wireshark within Appie.