# Analyzing Android Malware With Apktool

> Perform static analysis of Android APK malware samples using apktool for decompilation, jadx for Java source recovery, and androguard for permission analysis, manifest inspection, and suspicious API call detection.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-autohandai-community-skills-analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [autohandai](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/autohandai)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [autohandai](https://github.com/autohandai)
- **Source:** https://github.com/autohandai/community-skills/tree/main/analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool
- **Website:** https://skilled.autohand.ai

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-autohandai-community-skills-analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Analyzing Android Malware with Apktool

## Overview

Android malware distributed as APK files can be statically analyzed to extract permissions, activities, services, broadcast receivers, and suspicious API calls without executing the sample. This skill uses androguard for programmatic APK analysis, identifying dangerous permission combinations, obfuscated code patterns, dynamic code loading, reflection-based API calls, and network communication indicators.

## Prerequisites

- Python 3.9+ with `androguard`
- apktool (for resource decompilation)
- jadx (for Java source recovery, optional)
- Isolated analysis environment (VM or sandbox)
- Sample APK files for analysis

## Steps

1. Parse APK with androguard to extract manifest metadata
2. Enumerate requested permissions and flag dangerous combinations
3. List activities, services, receivers, and providers from manifest
4. Scan for suspicious API calls (reflection, crypto, SMS, telephony)
5. Detect dynamic code loading patterns (DexClassLoader, Runtime.exec)
6. Extract hardcoded URLs, IPs, and C2 indicators from strings
7. Generate risk assessment report with MITRE ATT&CK mobile mappings

## Expected Output

- JSON report with permission analysis, component listing, suspicious API calls, network indicators, and risk score
- Extracted strings and potential IOCs from the APK

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [autohandai](https://github.com/autohandai)
- **Source:** [autohandai/community-skills](https://github.com/autohandai/community-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://skilled.autohand.ai

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-autohandai-community-skills-analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/autohandai
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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