Apkpeek

pip install cognis-apkpeek
apkpeek scan .            # → prioritized findings in seconds

🔎 Example output

Real, reproducible output from the tool — runs offline:

$ apkpeek-emit --version
apkpeek 1.0.0

$ apkpeek-emit --help
usage: apkpeek [-h] [--version]
               {scan,manifest,permissions,secrets,perms-db,rules} ...

APKPEEK - static Android APK / manifest security analyzer (MobSF-style, zero
install).

positional arguments:
  {scan,manifest,permissions,secrets,perms-db,rules}
    scan                full static analysis of an apk/manifest
    manifest            decode and dump the manifest
    permissions         list requested permissions + protection levels
    secrets             scan only for hard-coded secret strings
    perms-db            list the bundled permission catalog
    rules               list the bundled secret-string rules

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit

$ apkpeek-emit rules
ID              SEVERITY  DESCRIPTION                         
--------------  --------  ------------------------------------
aws-access-key  critical  AWS Access Key ID                   
aws-secret-key  critical  AWS Secret Access Key (heuristic)   
google-api-key  high      Google API key                      
google-oauth    medium    Google OAuth client id              
firebase-db     medium    Firebase database URL               
gcm-fcm-key     high      Firebase/GCM legacy server key      
slack-token     high      Slack token                         
slack-webhook   medium    Slack incoming webhook              
github-pat      critical  GitHub personal access token        
github-fine     critical  GitHub fine-grained token           
stripe-secret   critical  Stripe secret key                   
stripe-pub      low       Stripe publishable key              
twilio-sid      high      Twilio account SID                  
sendgrid        high      SendGrid API key                    
mailgun         high      Mailgun API key                     
jwt             medium    JSON Web Token                      
private-key     critical  Private key block                   
generic-secret  medium    Generic hard-coded secret assignment
base64-blob     low       High-entropy base64 blob            

19 secret rules

Blocks above are real apkpeek output — reproduce them from a clone.

Usage — step by step

1. Install the CLI (console script apkpeek):

   pip install cognis-apkpeek
   

2. Run a full static scan of an .apk or AndroidManifest.xml:

   apkpeek scan app.apk
   

3. Drill into a single facet — manifest, permissions, or just hard-coded secrets:

   apkpeek manifest app.apk
   apkpeek permissions app.apk
   apkpeek secrets app.apk
   

4. Read the result as JSON, and tune scope with --min-severity / --no-dex:

   apkpeek scan app.apk --format json --min-severity medium
   apkpeek scan app.apk --no-dex          # skip DEX/resource secret scan
   

5. Automate in CI — exit 0 = clean, 1 = error, 2 = findings present (fails the gate):

   - run: pip install cognis-apkpeek
   - run: apkpeek scan app.apk --format json --min-severity high | tee apkpeek.json
   

Contents

• Why apkpeek? · Features · Quick start · Example · Architecture · AI stack · How it compares · Integrations · Install anywhere · Related · Contributing

Why apkpeek?

MobSF is huge and stateful; devs want a single apkpeek scan app.apk that drops SARIF straight into a GitHub Actions PR check — zero server, zero database.

apkpeek is single-purpose, scriptable, and self-hostable: point it at a target, get prioritized results in the format your workflow already speaks (table · JSON · SARIF), gate CI on it, and let agents drive it over MCP.

Features

• ✅ Parse Axml
• ✅ Analyze Manifest
• ✅ Scan Secrets
• ✅ Scan Apk
• ✅ To Sarif
• ✅ Runs on Linux/macOS/Windows · Docker · devcontainer
• ✅ Ports in Python, JavaScript, Go, and Rust (ports/)

Quick start

pip install cognis-apkpeek
apkpeek --version
apkpeek scan .                       # scan current project
apkpeek scan . --format json         # machine-readable
apkpeek scan . --fail-on high        # CI gate (non-zero exit)

Example

$ apkpeek scan .
  [HIGH    ] APK-001  example finding             (./src/app.py)
  [MEDIUM  ] APK-002  another signal              (./config.yaml)

  2 findings · risk score 5 · 38ms

Architecture

flowchart LR
  IN[capture / scan] --> P[apkpeek<br/>parse + map]
  P --> OUT[report]

Use it from any AI stack

apkpeek is interoperable with every popular way of using AI:

• MCP server — apkpeek mcp (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cognis.Studio, uncensored-fleet)
• OpenAI-compatible / JSON — pipe apkpeek scan . --format json into any agent or LLM
• LangChain · CrewAI · AutoGen · LlamaIndex — wrap the CLI/JSON as a tool in one line
• CI / scripts — exit codes + SARIF for non-AI pipelines

How it compares

	Cognis apkpeek	MobSF (Mobile Security Framework) static analyzer, minus the heavyweight web UI
Self-hostable, no account	✅	varies
Single command, zero config	✅	⚠️
JSON + SARIF for CI	✅	varies
MCP-native (AI agents)	✅	❌
Polyglot ports (JS/Go/Rust)	✅	❌
Open license	✅ COCL	varies

Built in the spirit of MobSF (Mobile Security Framework) static analyzer, minus the heavyweight web UI, re-framed the Cognis way. Missing a credit? Open a PR.

Integrations

Pipes into your stack: SARIF for code-scanning, JSON for anything, an MCP server (apkpeek mcp) for AI agents, and a webhook forwarder for SIEM/Slack/Jira. See docs/INTEGRATIONS.md.

Install — every way, every platform

pip install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/apkpeek.git"    # pip (works today)
pipx install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/apkpeek.git"   # isolated CLI
uv tool install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/apkpeek.git" # uv
pip install cognis-apkpeek                                          # PyPI (when published)
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cognis-digital/apkpeek:latest --help        # Docker
brew install cognis-digital/tap/apkpeek                             # Homebrew tap
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cognis-digital/apkpeek/main/install.sh | sh

Linux	macOS	Windows	Docker	Cloud
scripts/setup-linux.sh	scripts/setup-macos.sh	scripts/setup-windows.ps1	docker run ghcr.io/cognis-digital/apkpeek	DEPLOY.md (AWS/Azure/GCP/k8s)

Related Cognis tools

• ipasnitch — Static scanner for iOS .ipa bundles that flags ATS exceptions, missing entitlements hardening, embedded URLs/secrets, and weak Info.plist transport settings.
• hookcraft — Generates ready-to-run Frida instrumentation scripts from a YAML intent (e.g. 'bypass SSL pinning', 'dump crypto keys') and verifies they attach to a target process.
• dastlite — A headless, config-as-code DAST runner that crawls an authenticated web/mobile-API surface and fires a curated active-scan ruleset, emitting deduplicated SARIF.
• semsift — Lightweight semantic-aware SAST that runs curated taint rules over diffs only, so PRs get fast incremental SAST instead of whole-repo scan fatigue.
• cheatsense — Anti-cheat telemetry analyzer that ingests game session logs and flags statistically anomalous input/aim/movement signatures with explainable per-flag scoring.
• binhunt — Game/desktop binary integrity scanner that fingerprints executables, detects common packers/obfuscators, and diffs against a known-good baseline to catch tampering.

Explore the suite → 🗂️ all 170+ tools · ⭐ awesome-cognis · 🔗 cognis-sources · 🤖 uncensored-fleet · 🧠 engram

Contributing

PRs, new rules, and demo scenarios are welcome under the collaboration-pull model — see CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.md.

⭐ If apkpeek saved you time, star it — it genuinely helps others find it.

Interoperability

{} composes with the 300+ tool Cognis suite — JSON in/out and a shared OpenAI-compatible /v1 backbone. See INTEROP.md for the suite map, composition patterns, and reference stacks.

License

Source-available under the Cognis Open Collaboration License (COCL) v1.0 — free for personal, internal-evaluation, research, and educational use; commercial / production use requires a license ([email protected]). See LICENSE.

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