testing-mobile-applications

testing-mobile-applications is a skill for Claude Code from trilwu/secskills. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,013 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A broad security testing guide for Android and iOS applications, including analysis of the app package and its behavior while running.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for APK analysis, iOS testing, dynamic analysis, mobile vulnerability checks, and reviewing controls such as SSL pinning or root detection.
Why use it?
It helps structure a mobile security assessment and choose the right approach when an app uses frameworks such as Flutter, React Native, or Unity.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the secskills-offense plugin — 40 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for APK analysis, iOS testing, dynamic analysis, mobile vulnerability checks, and reviewing controls such as SSL pinning or root detection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/trilwu/secskills/testing-mobile-applications
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 trilwu/secskills --skill testing-mobile-applications
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trilwu/secskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install secskills-offense, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,013 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 9 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 357
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 386
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 388
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 389
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 382
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 377
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 399
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 400
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 472
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00049 $0.03013
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01507
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00301

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4b0f3edbdbb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-mobile-applications 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 4d 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.

secskills-offense/skills/testing-mobile-applications/SKILL.md · 485 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 485 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing Mobile Applications

When to Use

  • Android APK analysis and exploitation
  • iOS application pentesting
  • Mobile app security assessment
  • Bypassing security controls (SSL pinning, root detection)
  • Testing mobile-specific vulnerabilities

When NOT to Use

  • Backend API testing — use testing-apis
  • Deep native binary reversing — use analyzing-binaries
  • Analyzing a malicious app — use analyzing-malware
  • Source code is available — use auditing-code-for-vulnerabilities

Check the Framework Before Anything Else

jadx returning almost nothing does not mean the app is obfuscated — it usually means the logic is not in the dex at all. Run this first; it decides which skill you should be in.

unzip -l target.apk | rg 'libflutter|libapp\.so|index\.android\.bundle|libhermes|global-metadata|libil2cpp|Assembly-CSharp'
Marker Framework Skill
libflutter.so, libapp.so, flutter_assets/ Flutter / Dart reversing-flutter-apps
index.android.bundle, libhermes.so, main.jsbundle React Native reversing-react-native-apps
global-metadata.dat, libil2cpp.so, Assembly-CSharp.dll Unity reversing-unity-il2cpp
libmonodroid.so, assemblies.blob, libxamarin-app.so Xamarin / .NET MAUI reversing-xamarin-maui
classes*.dex with real application packages Native Android continue here

Two framework symptoms are worth naming, because they waste the most time when misread: a Flutter app shows no traffic at all in your proxy (it ignores the system proxy and CA store), and a React Native or Unity app shows a near-empty dex with all the logic in assets/.

Three more procedure skills split out of this one, because each needs far more detail than a general assessment can carry:

Situation Skill
App exits on a rooted device, or dies when Frida attaches bypassing-root-jailbreak-detection
iOS binary work: FairPlay decryption, Mach-O, class-dump, entitlements analyzing-ios-binaries
Exported components, deep links, URL schemes, content providers testing-mobile-ipc

Read the full file on GitHub · 485 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. 4d ago First seen · 485 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 4b0f3edbdbb3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing-mobile-applications is a skill published in the GitHub repository trilwu/secskills (137 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,013 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 2026-09-03.

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