Apple Security Lab

Apple Security Lab is an open-source command-line framework for building reproducible security research environments across the Apple ecosystem.

It provides a modular CLI for setting up research workspaces, managing analysis profiles, validating development environments and organizing security research projects.

Designed for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Apple Silicon and cross-platform security research.

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Features

• 🍎 Apple-first security research workflow
• ⚡ Modular command-line interface
• 🔬 Reproducible research environments
• 📂 Structured research workspaces
• 🧩 Extensible command architecture
• 🛠 Built-in environment validation
• 📦 check auto-installs missing tooling via your package manager (or pip, into a repo-local venv)
• 🌍 Cross-platform (macOS, Linux, Windows via WSL2 or Git Bash)

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Installation

Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/AlexGRDev/apple-seclab.git
cd apple-seclab

Add the executable to your PATH.

export PATH="$PWD/bin:$PATH"

Verify the installation.

seclab version

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Quick Start

Display help.

seclab help

Verify your environment.

seclab doctor

Check installed tooling.

seclab check

Display installation instructions.

seclab install

Scaffold a research target and open its shell.

seclab target new my-target ios
seclab env my-target

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CLI

seclab <command> [arguments]

help                          Display help information

version                       Show current version

doctor                        Validate the host environment seclab itself needs

check                         Verify installed tools, auto-installing what's missing

install                       Display installation instructions for this OS

env [target]                  Open a research shell (default target: scratch)

target new <name> [profile]   Scaffold a new research target (default profile: generic)
target list                   List existing research targets

profile list                  List available research profiles

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Repository Structure

apple-seclab/

bin/
    seclab

lib/

    commands/

    core/

    platforms/

    profiles/

    utils/

docs/

examples/

tests/

assets/

.github/

LICENSE

NOTICE

README.md

SECURITY.md

Makefile

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Project Layout

bin/

CLI entry point.

lib/core/

Framework internals.

lib/commands/

User-facing CLI commands.

lib/platforms/

Platform-specific functionality.

lib/profiles/

Research profiles.

lib/utils/

Shared helper functions.

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Roadmap

Core

• Modular CLI architecture
• Command dispatcher
• Project documentation

Environment

• Platform detection (macOS, Linux, WSL, Windows)
• Automatic dependency checks
• Homebrew integration
• Linux package manager support

Research

• Research targets
• Workspace templates
• Session management

Apple

• WebKit profile
• XNU profile
• Mach profile
• TCC profile
• Sandbox profile
• Objective-C helpers
• Swift helpers
• Frida integration
• LLDB integration

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Philosophy

Apple Security Lab is designed to reduce the overhead of preparing research environments.

Rather than replacing existing reverse engineering tools, it provides a reproducible foundation that lets researchers focus on understanding systems instead of configuring them.

The project emphasizes:

• Simplicity
• Reproducibility
• Modularity
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Apple ecosystem research

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

Please read:

• CONTRIBUTING.md
• SECURITY.md
• NOTICE

before opening a Pull Request.

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License

Released under the MIT License.

See the LICENSE file for details.

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Disclaimer

Apple Security Lab is intended exclusively for authorized security research.

Only use this software on systems and devices that you own or are explicitly authorized to assess.