Android Apps Carrying Windows Malware Yanked From Google Play

guest · Jul 31, 2018

Android Apps Carrying Windows Malware Yanked From Google Play
July 31, 2018
https://www.securityweek.com/android-apps-carrying-windows-malware-yanked-google-play

Most of the infected applications, Palo Alto's researchers say, were uploaded to the application store between October and November 2017 and remained there for over half a year. Google removed all of them after being alerted on the issue.

Some of the infected Android applications had over 1000 downloads and 4-star ratings before being removed from Google Play.

The security researchers discovered that some of the infected APKs contained multiple malicious PE files at different locations, with different names. However, two malicious files were found embedded in most applications.

The malicious PE files cannot directly run on Android devices, but, if the APK is unpacked on a Windows machine and malicious code executed, the system becomes infected. As Palo Alto Networks points out, the situation could become much worse if the developers are infected with malicious files that can run on Android.
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