This list is by no means exhaustive, but will definitely give you a basic idea of what applications are currently available. This way, you can determine the circumstances under which you might find them to be useful, or be alerted by their presence. With this in mind, this article will review five of the most widely used Android hacking tools for forensics professionals and Android enthusiasts alike. This is not to say the following tools are necessarily fit for the purposes of forensics investigations, or up to a forensics standard, but it is always good to see what the latest examples of hacking tools for Android mobile devices are.
Some tools are better suited to specific tasks than others, and some may fall short of the forensics standards of your organization’s requirements. In this instance, Android hacking tools are launched from an Android device and not from a workstation or PC, unless the penetration tester was running the hacking tools using an Android emulator on a PC. In another scenario, a cybersecurity expert may use Android “hacking tools” to pentest his or her own network environment.