Andriller — Forensic Investigation of Android Phone on Kali Linux

Android holds its position as the leading mobile phone operating system in worldwide. Having an Android phone is very common nowadays. Forensic testing of an Android phone is very crucial for every digital forensics experts.

In today’s digital forensics article we are going to learn about Andriller. Andriller is software utility with a collection of forensic tools for smartphones. It performs read-only, forensically sound, non-destructive acquisition from Android devices.

We learn how to install andriller on our Kali Linux system and use it against our own device.

First of all we need to clone the GitHub repository of andriller on our system by applying following command;

git clone https://github.com/den4uk/andriller.git

After the cloning process complete we can navigate to the directory by using cd command:

cd andriller

Here we got some files but to install and use andriller we need to focus on two files they are setup.py and andriller-gui.py.

We set the permissions of both files using following command.

sudo chmod +x setup.py andriller-gui.py

The following screeshot shows the output of applied command.

Now we can run the setup & install andriller. To do that we run following command on our terminal:

sudo python3 setup.py install

The above command will install all the dependencies to run this tool.

Here we recommended to run following command to install adb and python-tk for error-less works.

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb python3-tk

After installing the dependencies we can run the tool by simply using following command:

python3 andriller-gui.py

Then the GUI (Graphical User Interface) window of andriller will open in front of us as we can see in the following screenshot:

Here we need to set our “Output Location” we click there and set our output location. Here we choose our Desktop location.

Now we just need to connect an Android device with our Kali Linux system through USB, we need to use data cable here (USB debugging is must on Android device). After connecting data cable with the device we can use the “Check” option to check if our android device is connected or not.

After connecting our Android device we just need to click on “Extract” to get the report. After clicking on export we can see that our Android device is asking for backing up data here we just need to click on “back up my data”, as we did in the following screenshot:

Then our process will be started. If we have chosen or tick ✅ the “Shared Storage”, then Andriller will backup the whole storage which will be time consuming otherwise it will backup the system files only.

After completing the process the reports will be saved on our given location as a html file and browser opens the report automatically. As we can see in the following screenshot.

Hided some personal information

Here we can see the all details of the Android device. We can check the Google Accounts, Call logs, Browser history, WiFi passwords, SMS and much more.

Here is a screenshot of WiFi passwords.

Lots of information we can extract from an Android device using Andriller.

This is how we can perform digital forensics on an Android device. One more things, if we have a device with root permission then we can see the maximum results.

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