analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool

analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool is a skill for Claude Code from mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (548 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A static-analysis workflow for Android APK files, which are the installable packages used by Android apps. It examines app contents and code without running the suspected malware.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect manifests, permissions, activities, services, receivers, obfuscated code, dynamic code loading, reflection, and API calls.
Why use it?
It helps investigators understand a suspicious app safely and identify risky permissions, hidden behavior, and network-related indicators.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cybersecurity-skills plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect manifests, permissions, activities, services, receivers, obfuscated code, dynamic code loading, reflection, and API calls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool
About the project

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills is a library of structured cybersecurity procedures for AI agents, covering security domains and mappings to established security frameworks. It is for authorized security analysis, penetration testing, incident response, research, defense, and education across compatible AI platforms. The catalogue entries package parts of this library as agent skills, instructions, or a plugin.

mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills · 32,541 stars · on GitHub · mahipal.engineer

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.

Any agent
npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersecurity-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 6 Apr 2026
  • Snyk warn 6 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00084 $0.00548
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00274
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00055

Measured 12d ago against content hash 35c586c0d04a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

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.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing android malware with apktool
  • When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
  • When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
  • When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques

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
Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 67 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 35c586c0d04a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

analyzing-android-malware-with-apktool is a skill published in the GitHub repository mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (32,541 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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