APKLeaks

Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.

• Installation
  • from Pypi
  • from Source
  • from Docker
• Usage
  • Options
    • Output
    • Pattern
    • Arguments (for disassembler)
• License
• Acknowledments

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Installation

It's fairly simple to install APKLeaks:

from PyPi

$ pip3 install apkleaks

from Source

Clone repository and install requirements:

$ git clone https://github.com/dwisiswant0/apkleaks
$ cd apkleaks/
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

from Docker

Pull the Docker image by running:

$ docker pull dwisiswant0/apkleaks:latest

Dependencies

The APKLeaks utilizes the jadx disassembler to decompile APK files. If jadx is not present in your system, it will prompt you to download it.

Usage

Simply,

$ apkleaks -f ~/path/to/file.apk
# from Source
$ python3 apkleaks.py -f ~/path/to/file.apk
# or with Docker
$ docker run -it --rm -v /tmp:/tmp dwisiswant0/apkleaks:latest -f /tmp/file.apk

Options

Here are all the options it supports.

Argument	Description	Example
-f, --file	APK file to scanning	apkleaks -f file.apk
-o, --output	Write to file results (random if not set)	apkleaks -f file.apk -o results.txt
-p, --pattern	Path to custom patterns JSON	apkleaks -f file.apk -p custom-rules.json
-a, --args	Disassembler arguments	apkleaks -f file.apk --args="--deobf --log-level DEBUG"
--json	Save as JSON format	apkleaks -f file.apk -o results.json --json

Output

In general, if you don't provide -o argument, then it will generate results file automatically.

Tip

By default it will also save the results in text format, use --json argument if you want JSON output format.

Pattern

Custom patterns can be added with the following argument to provide sensitive search rules in the JSON file format: --pattern /path/to/custom-rules.json. If no file is set, the tool will use the default patterns found in regexes.json file.

Here's an example of what a custom pattern file could look like:

// custom-rules.json
{
  "Amazon AWS Access Key ID": "AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}",
  // ...
}

To run the tool using these custom rules, use the following command:

$ apkleaks -f /path/to/file.apk -p rules.json -o ~/Documents/apkleaks-results.txt

Arguments (disassembler)

We give user complete discretion to pass the disassembler arguments. For example, if you want to activate threads in jadx decompilation process, you can add it with -a/--args argument, example: --args="--threads-count 5".

$ apkleaks -f /path/to/file.apk -a "--deobf --log-level DEBUG"

Warning

Please pay attention to the default disassembler arguments we use to prevent collisions.

License

apkleaks is distributed under Apache 2.

Acknowledments

Since this tool includes some contributions, and I'm not an asshole, I'll publically thank the following users for their helps and resources:

• @ndelphit - for his inspiring apkurlgrep, that's why this tool was made.
• @dxa4481 and y'all who contribute to truffleHogRegexes.
• @GerbenJavado & @Bankde - for awesome pattern to discover URLs, endpoints & their parameters from LinkFinder.
• @tomnomnom - a gf patterns.
• @pxb1988 - for awesome APK dissambler dex2jar.
• @subho007 for standalone APK parser.
• SHA2048#4361 (Discord user) that help me porting code to Python3.
• @Ry0taK because he had reported an OS command injection bug.
• @dee__see - for curated potentially sensitive tokens, NotKeyHacks.
• All contributors.