AppSleuth
A tool by rudranetra.com · more at rudranetra.com/tools
One tool for mobile app security triage. Works on IPA, APK, APKS/XAPK and AAB. Python standard library only.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
appsleuth scan app.ipa |
Static security scan (secrets, ATS / network config, exported components, weak crypto, hardening, hybrid web layer) |
appsleuth info app.apk |
One-screen summary: identity, signing, permissions, exported components, libraries, posture flags |
appsleuth diff old new |
Compare two builds: files by category, posture, findings, and a list of regressions |
appsleuth data |
Pull an app's data container from a jailbroken iPhone (SSH) or an Android device (adb) and audit it, or audit a directory you already pulled |
appsleuth <file> is shorthand for scan.
Install
pipx install appsleuth # recommended
pip install . # or, from a clone: gives you the `appsleuth` command
python3 -m appsleuth … # or run in place
Examples
appsleuth scan app.ipa --fail-on HIGH
appsleuth info RSWealth.apks --full
appsleuth diff v1.apk v2.apk --fail-on-regression
appsleuth data --ios --host 9 -b com.example.app
appsleuth data --android -p com.example.app --method auto
appsleuth data --audit-dir ./pulled --platform android
Reports (report.json/md/html) are written to -o DIR.
Keeping false positives low
- At detection: placeholder and sample secrets dropped; public client identifiers (Google API keys, OAuth client IDs, Razorpay key IDs) reported as INFO; JWTs must decode; PEM needs a real body; whole-word crypto matching; digests, UUIDs and identifiers filtered from the entropy scan; documentation/schema URLs ignored; launcher activities not "exported"; Swift binaries not flagged for stack canaries.
- Corroboration (
triage): cleartext URLs are demoted when ATS or the Android target SDK already blocks cleartext; config-split APKs don't repeat base-manifest findings. - Yours:
--ignore-file(default.appsleuth-ignore) withtitle:,location:,evidence:,fingerprint:,severity:rules and-- reason.--min-severity,--min-confidence. - Nothing is silently lost:
report.jsonhas atriagesection listing everything demoted, dropped, ignored or hidden.--no-triageshows raw output.
Findings are leads for manual review, not confirmed vulnerabilities; each carries a confidence.
appsleuth data safety
Values are redacted by default (--show-values shows a short preview, never the full secret). Pulled archives are extracted defensively (regular files only, no links, no traversal, size/count caps); SQLite is opened read-only with an authorizer; XML with a DOCTYPE is refused; host/user/package inputs are validated and shell-quoted. Only use it on devices and apps you are authorised to test.
Tests
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -t .
Licence
MIT © Rudranetra India Private Limited — rudranetra.com
1 maintainer
Metadata
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