anylfest's Introduction

Anylfest

Anylfest provides and API for parsing and analyzing an AndroidManifest.xml file or files.

REQUIRES

It requires the following tools to be installed/in the current PATH for some functionality to work

apktool (https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/)
android sdk (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)

RUNNING

Anylfest can be installed to sys.path:

$ sudo python setup.py install

In order to use the library. Alternatively, run anylfest without installation using:

$ python anylfest/main.py

And has the following options:

usage: main.py [-h] [-p [PATH]] [-v] [--picky] [-g] [-f [FILTER]] [-d] [-m]

Process some manifests.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p [PATH], --path [PATH]
                        Path to search for AndroidManifest.xml files. Default
                        = current directory
  -v, --verbose         Turn debugging statements on
  --picky               Don't analyze Google and standard APKs
  -g, --get             Download apks from the device via ADB. Use -f for
                        filtering.
  -f [FILTER], --filter [FILTER]
                        Download only apps which has this keyword in the class
                        name (e.g. OEM name)
  -d, --decompile       Decompile applications after download.
  -m, --perm-map        Create a map of custom permissions and which apps
                        request them. Default true.

FUNCTIONS

Its API functions are:

Returns Boolean: isDebuggable isUIDShare

Returns List: getExportedActivity getExportedService getExportedProvider getExportedReceiver getHiddenMenuActivities getSecretCodes getUsesPermissions getCustomPermissions

See each function's PyDocs string for a short description. None of the API calls take parameters.