8 Malware p1s3g Infested Apps With Over 3 Million s Red-Flagged By Researcher For Android s

A French security researcher also posted the screenshot of these mobile applications so that it becomes easy for Android s to delete them. 2zv2b

By Amit Chaturvedi | Updated: 19 July 2022 21:01 IST

8 Malware-Infested Apps With Over 3 Million s Red-Flagged By Researcher For Android s

Maxime Ingrao also posted the screenshots of these dangerous images on Twitter. 1o3c3

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A French security researcher has warned s of Android smartphones against certain applications, which he said contain a "new family of malware". There are eight such apps, researchers Maxime Ingrao said on Twitter, which he has tracked since June last year. He added that these applications have been ed more than three million times (Google Play s included), he added. The malware has been identified by Mr Ingrao as Autolycos and he also explained how it infects the phone in a Twitter thread.

Found new family of malware that subscribe to services ????

8 applications since June 2021, 2 apps always in Play Store, +3M installs ????????

No webview like #Joker but only http requests

Let's call it #Autolycos ????#Android #Malware #Evina pic.twitter.com/SgTfrAOn6H
— Maxime Ingrao (@IngraoMaxime) July 13, 2022

The researcher said that the malicious applications are widely promoted via social media and reaches s through campaigns. s are enticed to these apps with photos of cool keyboard themes, nice-looking launcher apps and camera applications.

Google has deleted these applications from the Play Store, but their APK versions are still available online. "It retrieves a JSON on the C2 address: 68.183.219.190/pER/y. It then executes the urls, for some steps it executes the urls on a remote browser and returns the result to include it in the requests. This allows it not to have a Webview and to be more discrete," Mr Ingrao said in one of his tweets.

"To promote the applications, fraudsters create several Facebook pages and run ads on Facebook and Instagram," he said in a subsequent tweet.

The security researcher also posted the screenshot of these mobile applications so that it becomes easy for Android s to delete them from their phones.

The eight dangerous apps are:

Vlog Star Video Editor (com.vlog.star.video.editor, 1 million s)
Creative 3D Launcher (app.launcher.creative3d, 1 million s)
Funny Camera (com.okcamera.funny, 500,000+ s)
Wow Beauty Camera (com.wowbeauty.camera, 100,000 s)
Gif Emoji Keyboard (com.gif.emoji.keyboard, 100,000 s)
Razer Keyboard & Theme (com.razer.keyboards, 10,000 s, not related to the gaming/tech company Razer)
Freeglow Camera 1.0.0 (com.glow.camera.open, 5,000 s)
Coco Camera v1.1 (com.toomore.cool.camera, 1,000 s)

If none of these applications are on your phone, consider yourself lucky.

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