---
id: 8263
title: "Android Root Detection Techniques"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/android-root-detection-techniques/"
published_at: "2013-12-02T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["android", "mobile-security", "mdm", "root-detection", "device-compliance"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8263"
lang: en
---

# Android Root Detection Techniques

## Summary

Surveys how MDM solutions detect rooted Android devices, cataloging the packages, files, permissions, and commands they check, from BUILD test-keys to su binaries, tested on a rooted Nexus 4.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2013-12-02T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/android-root-detection-techniques/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8263