South Korean transportation apps found injecting malware on Android phones

guest · Feb 5, 2019

South Korean transportation apps found injecting malware on Android phones
February 5, 2019
https://cyware.com/news/south-korea...-injecting-malware-on-android-phones-724ca3cd

A new malware campaign has been uncovered by security firm McAfee. Transportation apps purportedly developed by a South Korean developer contained fake plugins that downloaded malware onto Android phones.

“When the malicious transportation app is installed, it downloads an additional payload from hacked web servers which includes the fake plugin we originally acquired. [...] installs a trojan on the device, trying to phish users to input their Google account password and completely take control of the device," indicated the report by McAfee.

Altogether, there were four apps out of which, three were available in Google Play Store since 2013 while the fourth one came around in 2017.
Finally, when the plugins execute the trojan, the affected phone is totally compromised and then the trojan receives commands from its C2 servers to remotely monitor files on the device.
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