Firmware Scanner

1.16

Internet Analytics Group - IMDEA Networks

4.00

244 reviews

100,000+
Downloads

Free

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About Firmware Scanner

Firmware Scanner is an education app developed by Internet Analytics Group - IMDEA Networks.

Download Statistics

Firmware Scanner has been downloaded 110 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1 thousand times.

User Ratings

Firmware Scanner is rated 4.00 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 240 ratings.

App Information

Firmware Scanner is FREE to download. The APK download size is 4.17 MB. The latest version available is 1.16. The last update was on October 28, 2024.

Technical Requirements

Firmware Scanner requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2018.

Description

Many Android devices come with pre-installed software. These apps cannot be uninstalled and they run with full system permissions. Consequently, they have a privileged position to access sensitive resources and information about each individual user and applications running on the device.

The openness of the Android operating system makes it possible for any handset manufacturer to ship a custom version of the system, along with proprietary pre-installed apps. As a result, any Android vendor can modify the Android firmware developed and maintained by Google.

Pre-installed apps can be useful to users (e.g., an email client) but some malicious vendors can distribute unwanted software that could cause harm to users' privacy and security. In fact, recent media articles have reported instances of Android vendors potentially sharing or selling user's personal data with other third-parties or subscribing users to paid services without their consent.

Unfortunately, pre-installed apps are hard to study. Pre-installed software is typically unavailable on popular app stores like Google Play. In fact, in order to perform a complete and comprehensive study about the prevalence of this type of software, it is important having access to a large number of Android handset vendors and models from all over the world.

This is the reason why we have developed FirmwareScanner, a research tool to crowd-source the collection of pre-installed apps so that we can investigate malicious actors.

By running this app, you will contribute to our research efforts, allowing us to extract pre-installed software from your phone and send it to our server for further analysis. **Under no circumstance, personal and sensitive data about your phone such as location or unique identifiers is collected**.

**Data volume:** Given the data size of pre-installed software, we also take precautions to not affect your data plan. We only upload the applications over WiFi. If you wish, we will also report to you our findings about the privacy risks of your phone once our analysis is done.

**Academic institutions:** This app is part of an academic research project run by IMDEA Networks Institute (Spain), University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain), the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley (CA, USA) and Stony Brook University (USA).

If you have any questions of if you would like to know more about the project, you can contact us by email at iag.networks@imdea.org

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More data about Firmware Scanner

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	110 thousand
Recent downloads	1 thousand
Rating	4.00 based on 240 ratings
Ranking	Not ranked
Version	1.16
APK size	4.17 MB
Number of libraries	27
Designed for Android	5.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

Firmware Scanner has been downloaded 110 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 34 downloads per day.

Changelog of Firmware Scanner

Jan 10, 2025Installs100,000+ installs
Oct 28, 2024UpdateVersion 1.16
Sep 24, 2020UpdateVersion 1.14
Aug 4, 2020Installs50,000+ installs
Jul 10, 2020UpdateVersion 1.13
Sep 12, 2019UpdateVersion 1.12
Aug 19, 2019UpdateVersion 1.11
Jul 30, 2019UpdateVersion 1.10
Jul 16, 2019UpdateVersion 1.7
Jul 5, 2019UpdateVersion 1.5
Mar 21, 2019UpdateVersion 1.4
Mar 4, 2019Installs10,000+ installs
Dec 9, 2018Installs5,000+ installs
Oct 14, 2018Installs1,000+ installs
Sep 16, 2018Installs500+ installs
Aug 17, 2018Installs50+ installs
Jul 23, 2018UpdateVersion 1.3
Jul 17, 2018Installs10+ installs
Jul 3, 2018Installs5+ installs
Jun 13, 2018New AppVersion 1.0 in EDUCATION for Free

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Developer information for Internet Analytics Group - IMDEA Networks

Internet Analytics Group - IMDEA Networks

imdea.internet.analytics@gmail.com

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Comments on Firmware Scanner for Android

★★☆☆☆ Do not download this app it's malware I ran there IP address on criminal IP, and it shows that there app is malware if you give them your access to your device they have all your login information all your personal information and your bank account info that will lead a major data breach Def report them to the FBI.

★★☆☆☆ Doesn't seem to work when uploading dsta (galaxy s5 / lineage os / android pie) so uninstalled

★★☆☆☆ Very slow upload process. Take longtime.

★★☆☆☆ Its very good app for android version download this app for your mobile updates.

Google Play Rankings for Firmware Scanner

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Technologies used by Firmware Scanner

Firmware Scanner is requesting 3 permissions and is using 28 libraries.

Permissions

Network communication

view network connections, full network access

System tools

run at startup

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

None found

Development tools

Android Jetpack core

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Android Jetpack Media

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Kotlin

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AndroidX Cursor Adapter

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Google gson

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Android Support Library Async Layout Inflater AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 Android Library Icon

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Okio

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RootBeer

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