Mobile Menace Monday: Preinstalled adware and sometimes worse

  • 27 March 2017
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March 27, 2017 by Nathan Collier
 
BLU manufactured mobile devices have been discovered with preinstalled adware known as Android/Adware.YeMobi.
 

Behavior of YeMobi

 
The incriminating behavior of adware YeMobi is its ability to launch the default browser on a mobile device and use it to display ads. There is an unusual element to this as well—it only displays ads while the Google Play store app is running.  As seen in the code below, if com.android.vending (the Google Play store app) is active, activity MessageLoadDetail is loaded.  Activity MessageLoadDetail then goes onto to display ads.
 
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