Advanced Firewall

About Advanced Firewall Android App

- Needs ROOT

- Needs Busybox to be installed

Advanced Firewall is an educational Android app for learning the

basic of network packet filtering. The App can be also used to create

filtering rules and/or select filtering rules from a list of predefined

rules, to protect Android mobile phones from unwanted incoming

and/or outgoing network traffic. The App’s users should have basic

knowledge about TCP/IP protocols.

Advanced Firewall app allows performing the following:

- Select filtering rules from a list of predefined rules to filter standard

Internet services.

- Create basic filtering rules to filter TCP and UDP network traffic.

That is, the filtering rules are defined by setting the values of the

source/destination IP addresses and the source/destination ports.

- Create basic filtering rules to filter ICMP network traffic. That is,

the filtering rules are defined by setting the values of the

source/destination IP addresses and the ICMP Type/Code fields.

- Create filtering rules to filter TCP and UDP services running on non-

standard ports.

- View the logs data of filtered network packets.

Developed by: Mohammed Al Matrooshi & Saeed Al Bairaq

Supervised by: Dr. Zouheir Trabelsi

College of Information Technology, UAE University

Email: [email protected]