Apk redteam pipeline

name: apk-redteam-pipeline

description: End-to-end Android APK red-team pipeline — automated APK acquisition (Play Store + apkpure + apkmirror fallback), jadx decompilation, secret/URL/JWT/Firebase grep, pinned-cert extraction, exported-component enumeration, Frida runtime instrumentation templates, intent-injection probes. Built from an authorized external red-team engagement where 7 APKs were pulled manually, 4 download attempts truncated, and a hardcoded JWT + 30 internal API endpoints were recovered from one of the apps. Use when target has a mobile app catalogue (Play Store developer page), when you find an APK URL hosted on a web server, or when post-recon mentions "mobile app" in scope.

sources: authorized-engagement

report_count: 1

When to use this skill

Trigger when:

• Recon surfaces 1+ mobile apps under the target's developer name (Play Store dev page)
• A web app hosts *.apk files directly (e.g. Recruitz.apk found on a subdomain during one engagement)
• APK package IDs leaked via stealer logs (e.g. com.<brand>.app, com.<brand>.<sub-brand> patterns in stealer dump format)
• Customer-facing app, dealer/partner portal, or employee mobile companion app is in scope
• Bug bounty program lists Android in scope

DO NOT use for:

• iOS-only targets (different pipeline — IPA reverse, MobSF, frida-ios-dump)
• React Native / Flutter web apps already covered by JS bundle analysis
• Server-side only assessments

Stage 0 — Inventory all org-owned apps

Play Store developer-page scrape

# Find developer page from the target's brand name
curl -sk -A "Mozilla/5.0" "https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=<Brand+Name>" -o /tmp/dev.html

# Extract package IDs
grep -oE 'id=[a-zA-Z0-9._]+' /tmp/dev.html | sort -u

Example output (anonymized — 7 packages typical for a multi-brand conglomerate):

com.events.<brand>build
com.<corp>.<sub-brand-1>
com.<corp>.<sub-brand-2>
com.<corp>.<flagship>
com.<corp>.<product-line-1>
com.<corp>.<product-line-2>
com.<corp>.<sub-brand-3>

Cross-reference with stealer logs

Stealer-log format includes package names like *@com.<corp>.<app> — extract these from creds_userpass.txt if you have a leaked dump.

Brand permutation guesses (multi-brand conglomerate patterns)

com.<brand>.app
com.<brand>.mobile  
com.<brand>.android
com.<brand>connect.app
in.<brand>.dealer
in.co.<brand>.app

Stage 1 — APK acquisition

Primary: APKPure direct (no auth required)

# Follow 302 redirects to actual download
curl -sk -L --max-time 60 \
  "https://d.apkpure.net/b/APK/<package_id>?version=latest" \
  -o "<package_id>.apk"

# Or via the legacy d-XX.winudf.com mirror chain (we saw this work)

Secondary: APKMirror search

curl -sk -A "Mozilla/5.0" "https://www.apkmirror.com/?post_type=app_release&searchtype=apk&s=<brand>" \
  | grep -oE 'href="[^"]+\.apk[^"]*"' | sort -u

Tertiary: APKPure web search

curl -sk "https://apkpure.com/search?q=<brand>" | grep -oE 'data-dt-app="[^"]+"'

XAPK vs APK

• .xapk = a zip containing multiple split APKs (base + config.armeabi-v7a + config.en + etc.)
• Unzip outer first, then unzip the inner base.apk or <package>.apk
• Some apkpure downloads return truncated XAPK with missing EOCD signature — symptom of CDN rate-limiting; rotate IP and retry, OR use 7z x which is more lenient than unzip

# Standard unzip (works for clean APK)
unzip -o <package>.apk -d extracted_<package>/

# For truncated/repaired XAPK
7z x -y <package>.apk -o"extracted_<package>"

# For nested XAPK
for inner in extracted_<package>/*.apk; do
  mkdir -p "extracted_<package>/$(basename "$inner" .apk)"
  unzip -o "$inner" -d "extracted_<package>/$(basename "$inner" .apk)"
done

Stage 2 — DEX decompilation (jadx)

# Install
brew install jadx          # macOS
# or
wget https://github.com/skylot/jadx/releases/latest/download/jadx-1.5.x.zip

# Decompile
jadx -d decompiled_<package>/ <package>.apk

# For XAPK that contains multiple APKs
for inner in extracted_<package>/*.apk; do
  jadx -d decompiled_<package>_$(basename "$inner" .apk)/ "$inner"
done

For a fast "strings only" pass without full decompilation:

find extracted_<package> -name "classes*.dex" -exec strings -8 {} \; > strings_<package>.txt

Stage 3 — Secret grep (the 60-pattern catalog)

# URL grep — owned-domain references
grep -oE 'https?://[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.(target1|target2|target3)\.(com|io|net|in)[a-zA-Z0-9./_?=&%-]*' strings_<package>.txt | sort -u

# Internal IP / port URLs
grep -oE 'https?://(10\.|172\.(1[6-9]|2[0-9]|3[01])\.|192\.168\.|127\.)[0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?[a-zA-Z0-9./_?=&-]*' strings_<package>.txt

# Cloud credentials
grep -oE 'AKIA[A-Z0-9]{16}'                            # AWS Access Key
grep -oE 'aws_secret_access_key[\s:=]+[A-Za-z0-9/+=]{40}' # AWS Secret
grep -oE 'AIza[A-Za-z0-9_-]{35}'                       # Google API key
grep -oE 'ya29\.[