Android Emulator Rooting system
Project description
AERoot is a command line tool that allows you to give the root privileges on-the-fly to any process running on the Android emulator with Google Play flavors AVDs.
This project is a rewrite from scratch of the android-emuroot tool (https://github.com/airbus-seclab/android_emuroot). It comes with new features:
- Recent AVDs support (Android API > 27)
- Execution time optimization
- Selection of a process by its PID
Compatible Kernels
| Kernel | x86 | x86_64 | Android version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.10.0+ | ✓ | 7.0/7.1 (Google Play) | |
| 3.18.56+ | ✓ | 8.0 (Google Play) | |
| 3.18.91+ | ✓ | 8.1 (Google Play) | |
| 4.4.124+ | ✓ | ✓ | 9.0 (Google Play) |
| 4.14.112+ | ✓ | ✓ | 9.0 (Google Play) |
| 5.4.36-00815-g3b29042c17b1 | ✓ | ✓ | 10.0 (Google Play) |
| 5.4.43-00621-g90087296b3b1 | ✓ | ✓ | 10.0 (Google Play) |
| 5.4.47-01061-g22e35a1de440 | ✓ | ✓ | 10.0 (Google Play) |
| 5.4.54-android11-0-00619-g476c942d9b3e-ab6722723 | ✓ | ✓ | 11.0 (Google Play) |
| 5.4.61-android11-0-00791-gbad091cc4bf3-ab6833933 | ✓ | ✓ | 11.0 (Google Play) |
| 5.4.61-android11-2-00064-g4271ad6e8ade-ab6991359 | ✓ | 11.0 (Google Play) | |
| 5.10.4-android12-0-03442-gf2684370d34d-ab7068937 | ✓ | 12.0 (Google Play) | |
| 5.10.15-android12-0-01814-gfca78df78ef2-ab7137072 | ✓ | 12.0 (Google Play) | |
| 5.10.21-android12-0-01012-gcc574f0d3698-ab7214561 | ✓ | 12.0 (Google Play) |
Requirements
AERoot requires gdb (with Python support enabled) to run properly.
Installation
Last Release
pip install aeroot
Current version
git clone https://github.com/quarkslab/AERoot.git
python3 setup.py install --user
Quick-start
First of all, you must launch the Android emulator with the gdb qemu option (-qemu -s).
emulator @Your_AVD -qemu -s
Then run aeroot by choosing the mode among:
- pid: give the root privileges to a process selected by its PID.
- name: give the root privileges to a process selected by its name.
- daemon: give the root privileges to the ADB daemon, so shells created with adb shell will automaticaly have root rigths.
Usage
aeroot [-h] [--verbose | --quiet] [--device DEVICE] [--host HOST] [--port PORT] {name,pid,daemon} ...
Examples
pid mode example
aeroot pid 1337
Gives the root privileges to the process with pid 1337
name mode example
aeroot name my_process
Gives the root privileges to the process named "my_process"
daemon mode example
aeroot daemon
Gives the root privileges to the ADB daemon
Additional options
You can find additional options by checking the help of the tool: aeroot -h
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