Introduction:-
Network analysis is the first step toward an network penetration test. Both windows and Linux have many tools to analyze an network on the bases of different standards. But these operating systems usually run on devices which are a little to large for an usual pant or shirt pocket and another problem with these tools are that most of the don't have an GUI which means you might go retard trying to explain an professional who doesn't have an IT baground. Thus a set of tools were required which can be installed on an normal android which could be deployed instantly. So I decide to find out a few tools which could be used for network analysis on an out of the box android phone.
What you need?
An android phone or tablet with 4.0 or above. You can also try it on phones with lower versions of android but we can't tell you if it will work or not. The phone used to test is an Samsung galaxy grand 2 with android 4.4.2 operating system.
Apps:-
Wifi Analyzer:- This is mostly an wireless network analysis tool. It's main advantage is that it scans the network and tells you which are the wifi channels have are having the most signal strength. It has 5 different views which are channel graph, time graph, signal meter, AP list, channel rating. The 2 best views are the signal meter and the channel graph. Our personal favorite was signal meter view which is a meter like GUI which notifies you about the wifi signal strength with a beeping sound similar to that of a mental detector. download
Landroid:- Landroid is a little geeky app as the interface requires a little knowledge about networks. It has features like ping, traceroute, publicIP, netstat, whois, etc which are mostly the features which network admins and network penetration tester requires to check the servers and the network connectivity. We would advice you not to download this app if you are not used to an less graphical user interface. It is a pure geek and pro stuff. download
Network signal info:- This is mostly an info app which can be used to find out information regarding cellular & wireless networks. This app has a nice GUI in which it displays various information like mac address, ip, ssid ,bssid, etc. The most interesting feature of this app is that this app shows you the location of the nearest cell tower under an feature called "cell
location". Some of the features of this app might be blocked as they require you to buy an pro version to use them. In all an fairly good app to find out information regarding various stuff about your cellular as well as wireless network.download
Fing-network tools:- This app is an wireless newtork scanning app which is similar to nmap. This app scans the networks and shows you the ip address assigned to different devices in the network. This is mostly a scanning app and can be used with Dsploit for an inside attack on a computer on the network.download