SCAM Apps are being designed more complex to make it harder for security experts to detect them.
This means it is extra important to be wary of what Apps your downloading to avoid malicious malware being put onto your Android.
“Threat actors increasingly distribute malicious Android APKs (packaged app installers) that resist decompilation using unsupported, unknown, or heavily tweaked compression algorithms,” Bleeping Computer said.
These APKs aka scam Apps are particularly more complex because they are somehow surpassing an analysis that should block them from operating.
Once downloaded, the APK Apps allow hackers to access your phone.
The APK Apps are “running seamlessly on Android devices” Zimperium, a member of the ‘App Defense Alliance’ dedicated to identifying and eliminating malware from Google Play confirmed.
This allows the APK to reduce being detected by security tools and researchers.
Which makes it harder to understand what exactly the malware is doing to function.
There allegedly have been 3,300 APKs detected that are using these unusual anti-analysis methods, which might cause many of them to crash, according to a zLab report published on August 16, per Bleeping Computer.
Zimperium also tested the apps it sampled on decompressor tools like JADX, APKtool, and the macOS Archive Utility.
He found that none of them could unzip the APK for analysis.
Zimperium did clarify that none of these apps are on the Google Play store.
In conclusion, it is important to not download any Apps that are not from the Google Play Store to protect your Android phone from dangerous malware.
Downloading Apps from third-party souces is a mistake that can allow your phone to be hacked.
Third-party App stores are not able to be vetted.
