File Monitor for Android

A simple cli tool to monitor the file opening of application processes.

Requirement

1. ebpf enabled kernel

   # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_BPF=y
   CONFIG_BPF=y

2. kprobe enabled kernel

   # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_KPROBES=y
   CONFIG_KPROBES=y

3. arm64/x86_64 architecture

   $ uname -m
   aarch64 or x86_64

4. root required

Usage

# ./file-monitor

As Library

m, err := monitor.NewMonitor()
if err != nil {
	println(err.Error())
	return
}
defer m.Close()

m.Launch()

for {
	event, ok := <-m.Events(): 
	
	// handle events
}

Build

1. Install make, clang, Android NDK
2. ANDROID_NDK=/path/to/android-ndk make all

Notice

3rd party licenses

1. bpf_core_read.h LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause