Adware-Packed Fake Apps Still Making Their Way to Google Play

guest · Jul 22, 2019

Adware-Packed Fake Apps Still Making Their Way to Google Play
July 22, 2019
https://labs.bitdefender.com/2019/07/adware-packed-fake-apps-still-making-their-way-to-google-play/

When it comes to Android, “borderline legitimate” is the tagline that developers commonly abuse to smuggle seemingly legitimate applications into official marketplaces, such as Google Play.

While displaying ads is not considered malicious per se, when the app goes out of its way to hide its presence on the device, then push full-screen ads on your device even when you’re not in the app, they become less of a nuisance that you can quickly uninstall, and more of a pain that makes it difficult to have a decent user experience with your Android device.

Bitdefender researchers recently uncovered three new apps in Google Play that seem to behave a lot like Trojans or Spyware in the way they hide on devices, but restrain themselves to displaying full-screen adds every 15 minutes.
The three Android apps (com.colors.drawing.coloring, hd4k.wallpapers.backgrounds, and launcher.call.recorder) seem to have been flagged as malicious starting early May 2019, although they were present in Google Play for at least three months prior to that. [...]
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