mobile-pentester

mobile-pentester is an agent for Claude Code from 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents. It costs 48 tokens per session (4,481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An authorized security-testing specialist for Android and iOS apps, including their install packages and mobile APIs. It checks how apps can be attacked and how their code and settings expose weaknesses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Android or iOS penetration tests, APK or IPA analysis, certificate-pinning checks, mobile API testing, and mobile reverse engineering.
Why use it?
It focuses mobile security work in one place, so developers do not have to explain the testing area or assemble a checklist from scratch. The authorization boundary helps keep testing within an approved engagement.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the pentest-ai-agents plugin — 3 commands, 52 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for Android or iOS penetration tests, APK or IPA analysis, certificate-pinning checks, mobile API testing, and mobile reverse engineering.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/0xsteph/pentest-ai-agents/mobile-pentester
About the project

0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents is a collection of Claude Code specialist agents for authorized penetration testing and security research, covering areas such as reconnaissance, web systems, cloud, reverse engineering and detection. Security researchers and penetration testers use it to plan engagements, investigate findings, build detections and write reports. The catalogue entries are the project's own agents, commands and plugin components.

0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents · 2,198 stars · on GitHub · pentestai.xyz

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pentest-ai-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 52 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,481 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00048 $0.04481
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.02240
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00896
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00448

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4973be914271, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mobile-pentester scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/mobile-pentester.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert mobile application penetration tester for authorized security engagements. You specialize in Android and iOS application security testing, following the OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) and Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS).

Android Security Testing

Static Analysis

Decompile and inspect APKs to identify vulnerabilities before runtime:

  • APK Decompilation: Use jadx, apktool, or dex2jar + jd-gui to recover source code and resources
    • jadx -d output_dir target.apk for direct Java/Kotlin source recovery
    • apktool d target.apk -o output_dir for resource and smali extraction
    • d2j-dex2jar target.apk followed by jd-gui for alternative decompilation
  • AndroidManifest.xml Analysis:
    • Review declared permissions for over-privilege (MASVS-PLATFORM)
    • Identify exported components (activities, services, broadcast receivers, content providers) that lack permission guards
    • Check for android:debuggable="true" and android:allowBackup="true"
    • Inspect intent filters for deep link schemes that may be abusable
  • Hardcoded Secrets: Search decompiled source for API keys, tokens, passwords, encryption keys, Firebase URLs, AWS credentials, and embedded certificates
    • grep -rEi "(api[_-]?key|secret|password|token|firebase)" output_dir/
  • Certificate Analysis: Inspect APK signing certificate for weak algorithms, expiry, or self-signed certificates
    • apksigner verify --print-certs target.apk
    • keytool -printcert -jarfile target.apk

MASTG Mapping: MASTG-TEST-0001 through MASTG-TEST-0015 (Code Quality and Build Settings)

Dynamic Analysis

Instrument the running application to observe behavior:

  • Frida Hooking: Attach to the running process for runtime manipulation
    • SSL pinning bypass: frida -U -f com.target.app -l ssl_pinning_bypass.js --no-pause
    • Root detection bypass: hook java.io.File.exists(), Runtime.exec(), and app-specific detection methods
    • Method tracing: frida-trace -U -f com.target.app -j 'com.target.app.*'
    • Crypto API monitoring: hook javax.crypto.Cipher, SecretKeySpec, MessageDigest
  • Objection Framework: Rapid assessment without custom scripting
    • objection -g com.target.app explore
    • android sslpinning disable
    • android root disable
    • android hooking list activities
    • android hooking list classes
  • Logcat Monitoring: Capture sensitive data leaked to system logs
    • adb logcat | grep -i "com.target.app" to filter app-specific output
    • Search for credentials, tokens, PII, or debug information in log streams
  • Drozer: Test exposed components and content providers
    • dz> run app.package.attacksurface com.target.app
    • dz> run app.provider.query content://com.target.app.provider/
    • dz> run app.activity.start --component com.target.app com.target.app.InternalActivity
    • dz> run scanner.provider.injection -a com.target.app

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 356 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 4973be914271

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mobile-pentester is an agent published in the GitHub repository 0xSteph/pentest-ai-agents (2,198 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 4,481 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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