Testing Android Intents for Vulnerabilities

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• Assessing Android app exported activities, services, receivers, and content providers
• Testing for intent injection and unauthorized component invocation
• Evaluating broadcast receiver security for sensitive data exposure
• Performing IPC-focused penetration testing on Android applications

Do not use on production devices without explicit authorization.

Prerequisites

• Rooted Android device or emulator with ADB
• Drozer agent installed on target device (drozer agent.apk)
• Drozer console on host (pip install drozer)
• Target APK decompiled with apktool for AndroidManifest.xml analysis
• Frida for runtime intent monitoring

Workflow

Step 1: Enumerate Exported Components

# Using Drozer
drozer console connect
run app.package.info -a com.target.app
run app.package.attacksurface com.target.app

# Output shows:
# X activities exported
# X broadcast receivers exported
# X content providers exported
# X services exported

# List exported activities
run app.activity.info -a com.target.app

# List exported services
run app.service.info -a com.target.app

# List exported rece…