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🛡️ EXIFER 🛡️

[ GPS • DEVICE • OWNER • PAYLOAD • HASH ]

Exifer is a next-generation cybersecurity-focused EXIF and metadata forensic analyzer for Android.

It is designed to help users, investigators, journalists, and privacy-aware individuals detect:

  • Hidden metadata leaks
  • Location exposure (GPS stalking risk)
  • Device fingerprinting identifiers
  • Editing/tampering traces
  • Embedded payload signatures (ZIP/PDF/DEX/ELF)
  • Integrity hashes (SHA-256)
  • High entropy steganography suspicion

📸 Screenshots

1. Home Screen
2. Quick Details
3. Full Exif Detail
4. Categorized Exif Detail

🚀 Key Features

✅ Complete Metadata Extraction

  • Full Android EXIF tag sweep
  • MakerNote extraction (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, Fujifilm)
  • Deep metadata parsing (XMP, IPTC, ICC Profiles)

🛰 GPS & Privacy Leak Detection

  • Decimal coordinate extraction
  • Location exposure risk classification

🔥 Cybersecurity Intelligence Layer

  • Metadata Risk Score (0–100)
  • Tampering detection (Photoshop/Snapseed/Lightroom traces)
  • SHA-256 file fingerprinting

🧹 EXIF Removal / Sanitization

  • One-tap metadata stripping via bitmap re-encoding
  • Outputs clean image to Downloads

📄 PDF Forensic Report Export

  • Generate a full metadata intelligence report
  • Saved automatically in Downloads/Exif_Data_Reports

🖥 Hacker-Style UI Console

  • Categorized forensic breakdown
  • Full datastream mode
  • Smart search with synonyms + fuzzy matching
  • Quick Intel summary panel

🛠 Tech Stack

  • Kotlin + Jetpack Compose
  • AndroidX ExifInterface
  • Drew Noakes Metadata Extractor
  • iText PDF Export Engine

🔍 Forensic Categories Included

  • GPS / Location Intelligence
  • Device Identification & Fingerprinting
  • Date & Timeline Reconstruction
  • Software / Editing History
  • Owner & Identity Leakage
  • Embedded Thumbnail Traces
  • Unique File Identifiers
  • Network / Source Metadata
  • Camera Forensic Settings
  • Forensic Intelligence

📌 Transparency & AI Attribution

This project is fully open source and built with transparency.

AI Tools Used During Development

  • Google Gemini Pro
  • OpenAI GPT GO

Human Design & Prompt Direction

While AI contributed to implementation support, the UI concept, design direction, and feature vision were provided by the human prompter/developer.


⚖ Disclaimer

Exifer is provided for privacy awareness and forensic education. This tool is not intended for illegal surveillance or misuse.


📜 License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

This project is free for community use and modification, but strictly non-commercial. You are not allowed to sell this project or its forks.

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Exifer is a next-generation cybersecurity-focused EXIF and metadata forensic analyzer for Android. It is designed to help users, investigators, journalists, and privacy-aware individuals detect:

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