BadMirror: New Android Malware Family Spotted by SherlockDroid

Our automated crawling and analysis system, SherlockDroid / Alligator, has just discovered a new Android malware family, on a third party marketplace.

Figure 1: Part of SherlockDroid report. Android/BadMirror sample found as suspicious

The malware is an application whose name translated to “Phone Mirror”. Because it is malicious, we have dubbed it ‘BadMirror‘.  Click here to continue reading article


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