# rednaga/APKiD

Android Application Identifier for Packers, Protectors, Obfuscators and Oddities - PEiD for Android

Repository: https://github.com/rednaga/APKiD
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/apkid
Language: YARA
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: android, antivirus, machine-learning, malware-detection, malware-analysis, malware-research, yara, yara-forensics, packers, android-protection, android-protect-apps, rasp, appshielding, obfuscation
Last push: 2026-07-27T17:35:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 46, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3723, "days_push": 37, "days_rel": 146, "gap_med": 349, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2565, forks 344 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:01.153094+00:00)

## What it is
APKiD is a command-line tool that identifies how an Android APK was built, detecting compilers, packers, obfuscators, and app-shielding/RASP SDKs using YARA rules. It is essentially 'PEiD for Android', distributed as a Python package on PyPI.

## Use cases
- identify which packer or protector was used on an apk
- detect obfuscated or app-shielded android apps
- triage suspicious apk files during malware analysis
- fingerprint the compiler used to build a dex file
- scan a directory of apks for anti-analysis protections
- detect pirated or repackaged android apps

## When to choose
- you need fast static identification of packers, protectors, or RASP SDKs in Android apps
- you want a scriptable CLI or Python library for bulk APK triage
- you are doing malware analysis or mobile security research on Android samples

## When to avoid
- you need dynamic analysis or runtime behavior monitoring of Android apps
- you want a GUI-based reverse engineering tool rather than a CLI
- you need to analyze iOS or non-Android binaries

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: security, reverse-engineering, parser, cli
- domain: security, reverse-engineering, android-tools, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, windows
- tags: android, apk, yara, malware-analysis, packers, obfuscation-detection, forensics, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- rednaga/APKiD (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:01.153094+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:23:26.778670+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rednaga/APKiD (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:01.153094+00:00, sha eabf17de8b7c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.