Monday, June 10, 2013

'Smartest Android Trojan ever found "- Automation Guide

June 10, 2013 10:43 Tanja Peace NEWS

protector Kaspersky has detected a highly sophisticated Android Trojan. These so-called Backdoor AndroidOS.Obad.a is multifunctional but also very complex to analyze by unprecedented high security code.

Trojan can simultaneously send text messages to premium numbers and other malware download which is then installed or forwarded via Bluetooth. on the infected machine He can also be carried out.

remote command

Moreover, according to Roman Unechek, the researcher at Kaspersky who Backdoor AndroidOS.Obad.a has decompose. Added to this is the code of the Trojan very well protected. All strings in the DEX file are encrypted

3 leak

addition, the use of Trojan least 3 leaks: DEX2JAR used to convert JAR format APK files. A leak in Android that relates to processing the AndroidManifest.xml file and another flaw in Android that allows the hacker unnoticed comprehensive Device Administrator privileges obtained.

addition Backdoor AndroidOS.Obad.a no interface and works in the background mode.

Unechek states that more resembles the Trojan malware for Windows than on existing Android Trojans. In addition, he is referring to the complexity and the large number of unknown vulnerabilities where this malware uses it.

One bright spot is that Backdoor AndroidOS.Obad.a not much active in the wild is found.

on June 10, 2013 at 15:34

@ French
determined naive.

on June 10, 2013 at 13:56

@ Erwin: An Apple iPhone I find nevertheless a pleasant thought. Their business model is selling iPhones, not by selling my information to advertisers. A smartphone from Google would therefore indeed be twice as expensive, that is not an iPhone. I’m so happy to pay relative anonymity for me.

on June 10, 2013 at 12:36@

French, is an iPhone than an alternative, or do you think Apple is doing nothing with the inventoried data? Or maybe Blackberry? No, definitely let you alone. Windows Phone then? Hmm … Which smartphone or tablet OS allows you as a user really alone, and protects you from the prying eyes of the NSA? No. Why not? Because there is just a business model behind it, it is different than simply sell calls. If manufacturers could not make this information was a Smartphone Tablet fo at least twice more expensive.

on June 10, 2013 at 12:18

When Ubuntu on my tablet works, I think I Android throw it off.
Android is to compare with Linux very limited.

on June 10, 2013 at 12:03

Zg obfuscated code. Not difficult. I would do if I was virus baker.

on June 10, 2013 at 11:18

smartest trojan is obviously Android itself. People use it and thus give all their information to Google who earns money with it.

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