# Android Unpacker

> Code and slides from the Defcon 22 talk "Android Hacker Protection Level 0". It holds a gdb and adb script for Bangcle and SecShell, a native unpacker for APKProtect, Bangcle, LIAPP and Qihoo Packer, tweaks that hide QEMU and debuggers from APKProtect, and a Corellium-based dynamic unpacking approach with automation.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: App
- Category: Android tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/strazzere/android-unpacker>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/strazzere/android-unpacker/blob/968ed234217edd16212738473f6493515e3d585b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/android-unpacker/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/android-unpacker/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/android-unpacker/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The gdb-scripts unpacker requires gdb and adb; the native unpacker does not depend on gdb. The newest tagged release is v1.2 from 2014-09-11.
- Apache-2.0 per LICENSE.txt.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/strazzere/android-unpacker/blob/968ed234217edd16212738473f6493515e3d585b/README.md>

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