Help researchers by uploading the pre-installed binaries from your phone!
About Firmware Scanner
Firmware Scanner is an education app developed by Internet Analytics Group - IMDEA Networks.
How many times has Firmware Scanner been downloaded?
Firmware Scanner has been downloaded 120 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1.1 thousand times.
What is the rating of Firmware Scanner?
Firmware Scanner is rated 4.00 out of 5 stars, based on 250 ratings.
Is Firmware Scanner free?
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.
What are the requirements for Firmware Scanner?
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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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.
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Doesn't seem to work when uploading dsta (galaxy s5 / lineage os / android pie) so uninstalled
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Very slow upload process. Take longtime.
★★☆☆☆
Its very good app for android version download this app for your mobile updates.
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Technologies used by Firmware Scanner
Firmware Scanner is requesting 3 permissions and is using 34 libraries.
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