Alternatives to MobSF
Analyze mobile application packages in a security-testing workspace. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
MobSF
Analyze mobile application packages in a security-testing workspace.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as MobSF.
Frida
Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for inspecting and modifying running applications.
Frida is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit for hooking live mobile processes rather than a static and dynamic analysis workspace.
objection
Inspect mobile application behavior at runtime.
objection builds on Frida to explore mobile application state at runtime rather than analysing packages statically.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Burp Suite Community Edition
PortSwigger's free web security testing toolkit, for intercepting, inspecting and modifying HTTP traffic by hand.
mitmproxy
An intercepting proxy that decrypts, displays and lets you modify HTTP and HTTPS traffic, with a console, a web interface and a scriptable command-line version.
Semgrep
Find code patterns and potential problems with static analysis.
radare2
Command-line reverse engineering framework and binary analysis toolkit.
Ghidra
The NSA's reverse engineering framework, with a decompiler that turns machine code back into readable C.
Binary Ninja
An interactive disassembler, decompiler, debugger and binary analysis platform for reverse engineers, with a free edition.
