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Android Malware Family Downloads Paid Media and Apps

18

Jul

2012

We spotted a family of Android malware that downloads apps and paid media files without users’ consent, leaving victims with unwanted charges. These are Trojanized versions of the legitimate weather forecast tool GoWeather and are detected by Trend Micro as ANDROIDOS_TROJMMarketPlay.During our research, we acquired three samples of this malware family. One of the samples […]

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Fake Skype for Android Leads to Malicious .JAR File

06

Jul

2012

Following the fake versions of Instagram, Angry Birds Space, and Farm Frenzy apps, we recently spotted a website offering different fake Skype mobile apps for Android. But based on our analysis, these apps are actually malware that run on older Symbian versions or Android devices installed with apps that enable execution of Java MIDlet. Once […]

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Technical Analysis of CVE-2012-1889 Exploit HTML_EXPLOYT.AE Part 3

04

Jul

2012

As discussed in our previous blog entries, we’ve found an exploit (Trend Micro detection HTML_EXPLOYT.AE) that targets a vulnerability found in Microsoft XML Core Services (CVE-2012-1889). Based on our analysis, HTML_EXPLOYT.AE contains three key features: its usage of Microsoft XML Core Services, heap spray, and No ROP (Return-Oriented-Programming) function. Our two initial blog entries already […]

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