Auto-Clicking Android Adware Found in 340 Apps on the Google Play Store

  • 17 August 2017
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17th August 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
The developer(s) of an Android adware family named GhostClicker has managed to sneak his malware on the official Google Play Store on several occasions, hiding it in as much as 340 mundane Android apps.
There have been so many cases of Android adware making it on the Google Play Store that it's getting harder to keep track of all the adware families. Previous cases include Chamois, FalseGuide, HummingBad, Viking Horde, DressCode, CallJam, and Skinner. , just to name the biggest.
 
All show a trend and weakness in Google's Play Store security checks that malware devs are exploiting to push adware to unsuspecting users.
 
The secret of sneaking malware past Google is to split malicious behavior across several components, delay its execution, and use anti-sandboxing checks to prevent execution in obvious testing environments.
 
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I was REALLY NOT expecting that!!!
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I was REALLY NOT expecting that!!!
You should not be surprised by anything in the Google Play Store Baldrick.

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