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Frida

Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for injecting scripts into native apps on Android, iOS and desktop.

Frida

Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse-engineers, and security researchers. Learn more at frida.re.

Two ways to install

1. Install from prebuilt binaries

This is the recommended way to get started. All you need to do is:

pip install frida-tools # CLI tools
pip install frida       # Python bindings
npm install frida       # Node.js bindings

You may also download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from Frida's releases page on GitHub.

2. Build your own binaries

Run:

make

You may also invoke ./configure first if you want to specify a --prefix, or any other options.

CLI tools

For running the Frida CLI tools, e.g. frida, frida-ls-devices, frida-ps, frida-kill, frida-trace, frida-discover, etc., you need a few packages:

pip install colorama prompt-toolkit pygments websockets

Apple OSes

First make a trusted code-signing certificate. If you have already used Xcode before, chances are you already have an Apple development certificate. You can check it with the following command:

security find-identity -v -p codesigning

Which will return the certificate in the following format:

1) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Apple Development: user@mail.com (YYYYYYYYYY)"

If you do not have a certificate, follow this guide: https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev154b28f09.

Next export the name of your certificate to relevant environment variables, and run make:

export MACOS_CERTID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export IOS_CERTID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export WATCHOS_CERTID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export TVOS_CERTID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
make

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Have a look at our documentation.

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