A Collaborative Approach for Android Hacking by Integrating Evil-Droid, Ngrok, Armitage and its Countermeasures
Merin Manoj, Reshma Sajeev, Sivanand Biju, Sinimol Joseph · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2020
Android is the most commonly used operating system which is designed for touchscreen mobile devices. Security is an important feature in the android platform. We can manipulate or gain unauthorized access such as intercepting telephone calls or accessing voicemail messages from Android devices by using penetration testing tools, it is known as Android hacking. Kali Linux mainly aims at security auditing and penetration testing. Penetration testing tools are used for testing security vulnerabilities in computer systems, web applications and networks that an attacker could exploit. Evil-Droid is a penetration testing tool used for generating and embedding apk payloads in Android platforms. The penetration testing is used to identify the weak spots in Android’s security posture and to measure the compliance of its security policy. Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool and Ngrok is a tool used for securing introspectable tunnels to localhost webhook development. In this paper, we discuss the integration of these three tools and the countermeasures to prevent Android devices from attacks. By this integration attackers can penetrate android platforms over the internet by using a GUI.