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Dark Herring malware was identified by a Zimperium research team, the campaign is estimated to be in the millions of dollars, in monthly increments of $15 per victim. Google has subsequently deleted all 470 fraudulent apps from Play Store, and the scam services have been shut down, however, any user who already has one of the apps loaded could be actively attacked in the future. The apps can also be found in third-party app shops.
Direct carrier billing (DCB) is a mobile payment technique which adds payments for non-telecom services to a consumer’s monthly phone bill. It is used by customers worldwide, particularly in underbanked countries. It’s a tempting target for opponents.
The Dark Herring’s long-term success was based on AV anti-detection skills, widespread distribution via a large number of programs, code encryption, and the use of proxy as first-stage URLs.While none of the aforementioned features are novel or surprising, seeing it together in one software program is unusual for Android fraud. Furthermore, the actors used a complex infrastructure which has accepted communications from all 470 application users yet handled each one individually based on a unique identity.
It has no malicious code in the installed software, but it does have a hard-coded encoded string which refers to a first-stage URL located on Amazon’s CloudFront.The server’s answer includes links to further JavaScript files housed on Amazon Web Services servers, which are downloaded to the infected device.&nbs
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