Tomer Bitton, Independent Reverse Engineer at Imperva: Mobile Malware Part IV
August 2011 by Tomer Bitton, Independent Reverse Engineer at Imperva
Part III shows the code which intercepts the SMS messages and sends them to the drop point.
As we have previously mentioned, the malware is distributed through the Android’s application market. It remains to address the following question: how does an infection look like from the point of view of the victim?
Dynamic Infection:
Rather than installing the Trojan on an Android, we had decided to install it on an Android SDK on an Ubuntu machine.