From the Play Store discovered dangerous Android Trojan

A Trojan on the mobile operating system Android called Dvmap was discovered in the official Google Play store.

After this, Google quickly removed it. Dvmap found a novel Unuchek from Kaspersky Lab on may 19.

It happened in the process of monitoring the internal system for searching are able to perform Ruth malware. After several additional checks on 25 may, he informed the representatives of Google.

Trojan built into the game colourblock, which is described as a simple and addictive puzzle game. The main danger lies in its ability to perform a root device and injecting malicious code into the system library device. After installation, the Trojan checks the version of Android and is trying to determine which library to inject code. If the operation is successful, set the tools to connect to a team server.

Oddly enough, the request is made the server is not responding, which may indicate the incompleteness of the malware or bugs in its code. Since the beginning of March, the authors Dvmap have downloaded many versions of the game, first clean, then infected.

When changed system libraries to run malicious module can be disabled VerifyApps, which is a Android virus scanner apps. You can then install to the device any application that may be no less dangerous.

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