The Android Device Administration feature is a powerful API that was first released with Android 2.2. It offers several system-level capabilities, and makes available a wide range of features, such as remote formatting, storing data on another device , or enforcing password rules.
Applications that request device administrator privileges, as you have already noticed, ask for the owner's permission to access this specific API.
You can of course check which apps have these permissions on any Android device running version 2.2 and above. To do so, open your device's settings and select security.
There you should find an option that will allow you to see all the administrators on the device. The administrators are listed by their name and a brief description of what exactly they can do. You can also see whether any of them are active or not at the moment you are checking your device.
One problem faced by Android users is that malicious applications do not appear in the list, even if they have administrator privileges.
Trend Micro's Hidden Device Admin Detector app is designed to scan your Android device for these hidden administrators.
Very easy to use, you just need to press the scan button. The scan does not take long. If the application discovers a hidden administrator, it will ask you to give it the ability to disable it from your system.
The app is ideal for users of older versions of Android, as malware cannot hide on newer versions, or so Google claims. Trend Micro's Hidden Device Admin Detector app does not require any special permissions.
You can download the application from the link below.
