paddyjoe

Dear experts,

I was intending to have a MSc student investigate the detection of Malware for example Botnet activity on Android.

My intension is to have the student develop his/her botnet simulation and botnet detector/mitigation app using the Android Emulator in Eclipse.

From reading posts about rooting the emulator, there seems to be conflicting statements that say it can be rooted or it can't be rooted.

One may adopt an approach where by iptables maybe used as part of the botnet mitigation process perhaps blocking IRC ports or filtering for layer-7 strings.

I have seen some threads with respect to rooting the emulator in eclipse (for iptables) and there seems to be an issue with it.

I want to be sure that the Android Emulator in the Eclipse IDE may be used to develop an app to, for example detect various IRC ports and perhaps have iptables block such ports or block certain IRC commands using iptables string match etc.

All comments are welcome.