0xSojalSec / MobSleuth

Scripts to set up your own Android 📱 app hacking lab

MobSleuth 📲

Scripts to set up your own mobile 📱 app hacking lab (currently focusing on Android)

Includes the following tools:

• MobSF FOSS - Mobile Security Framework is an open-source, automated mobile app security testing tool.
• reDroid FOSS - Remote anDroid solution for emulating an Android device in a container.
• Scrcpy FOSS - a free and open-source tool that allows you to mirror and control your Android device from your computer via ADB.
• Frida FOSS - Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers.
• Jadx FOSS - Dex to Java decompiler.
• Objection FOSS - Runtime Mobile Exploration.
• Pidcat FOSS - Colored logcat script which only shows log entries for a specific application package.
• BurpSuite CE proprietary - Powerful web application security testing platform with interception, scanning, fuzzing, and more.

What you get:

• A complete setup of tools to start hacking Android apps.
• A dockerized environment to run Android apps in a container.
• One-command root access to the Android container.
• BurpSuite running on the host machine to intercept and modify traffic.
• Mobsf with dynamic analysis capabilities connected to Android container.
• ADB server running on port 5555 to connect to the Android container.
• Scrcpy to mirror and control the Android container.
• Scripts to generate a CA certificate and install them on the Android container.
• Scripts to install and run Frida on the Android container.

Setup a VM - Lubuntu-22.04

• Download Lubuntu or any Ubuntu based distro.
• Use Lubuntu Installation Guide to install a VM in Virtualbox.
• Make sure you configure sufficient resources for lab to run smoothly.
  • Minimum 25GB of virtual disk space.
  • Minimum 8GB RAM allocated.
  • Mininum 4 Cores allocated.

Install

Note

Below scripts might require sudo access to install certain packages and dependencies. Review the scripts before running them.

wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adityatelange/MobSleuth/main/install.sh | bash

Tools can be installed one by one.

cd $HOME/MobSleuth/src
bash install/common_deps.sh
bash install/docker.sh

Logout and login again to apply group changes as we have added user to docker group.

Continue installing rest of the components.

cd $HOME/MobSleuth/src
bash install/redroid.sh
bash install/mobsf.sh
bash install/scrcpy.sh
bash install/frida.sh
bash install/jadx.sh
bash install/burpsuite.sh
bash install/objection.sh
bash install/pidcat.sh

After Installation

All the tools are installed in the ~/MobSleuth directory.

• ~/MobSleuth/src - contains the installation scripts. You may update MobSleuth using git pull in this directory.
• ~/MobSleuth/installers - contains the downloaded installers.
• ~/MobSleuth/data11_vol - contains the data directory for the reDroid container for persistence.
• ~/MobSleuth/mobsf_vol - contains the data directory for the MobSF container for persistence.
• ~/MobSleuth/tools - contains the tools installed.
• ~/MobSleuth/certs - contains the generated CA certificate and private key.

Setup Diagram

flowchart
    subgraph MobSleuth
        subgraph Docker Services
            subgraph reDroid
                redroid5555["ADB server listener :5555"]
                redroid27042["frida-server"]
                redroidvol["/data"]
                redroidsserv["scrcpy-server"]
                redroid5555 <---> redroidsserv
                redroid5555 <---> redroid27042
            end

            subgraph MobSF
                mobsf8000["WebApp listener :8000"]
                mobsfvol["/home/mobsf/.MobSF"]
                DA["Dynamic Analyzer"] --> |"via MOBSF_ANALYZER_IDENTIFIER"| redroid5555
            end
        end

        subgraph "Host"
            subgraph "local directories"
                mobsfdir["~/mobsf"] <--> mobsfvol
                redroiddir["~/data11"] <--> redroidvol
            end

            subgraph listener ports
                lp5555[":5555"] <==> |"5555:5555"| redroid5555
                lp8000[":8000"] <==> |"8000:8000"| mobsf8000
            end
        end

        subgraph Tools
            subgraph ADB
                adbd["daemon :5037"] <---> |"shell"| lp5555
            end

            subgraph scrcpy
                scr["via ADB"] <---> lp5555
            end

            subgraph BurpSuite
                burp["Proxy listener :8080"] <-.-> |"proxied traffic"| reDroid
            end

            subgraph Frida
                frida["frida-tools"] <---> lp5555
            end

            subgraph pidcat
                pid["via ADB"] <---> lp5555
            end

            subgraph objection
                obj["via ADB"] <---> lp5555
            end

            subgraph jadx
            end
        end
    end