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These malicious modules may show intrusive ads and sign users up for paid subscriptions to external services (not to be mistaken with a legitimate premium subscription to CamScanner).Īlthough most reviews left by users of the CamScanner on the app’s Google Play page are positive, some of the users have reported on suspicious behavior of the app that they’ve encountered while using the infected version. This “dropped” malware, in turn, is a Trojan downloader that downloads more malicious modules depending on what its creators are up to at the moment. That means the module extracts and runs another malicious module from an encrypted file included in the app’s resources. As the name suggests, the module is a Trojan Dropper. Kaspersky products detect this module as, which we have observed in some apps preinstalled on Chinese smartphones. However, at some point, that changed, and recent versions of the app shipped with an advertising library containing a malicious module. It used ads for monetization and even allowed in-app purchases. Keep in mind that most of the apps are updated regularly, so Google Play moderators’ jobs are never done.ĬamScanner was actually a legitimate app, with no malicious intensions whatsoever, for quite some time. The problem is that even such a powerful company as Google can’t thoroughly check millions of apps. Unfortunately, nothing is 100% safe, and from time to time malware distributors manage to sneak their apps into Google Play. Official app stores such as Google Play are usually considered a safe haven for downloading software.
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Various resources call the app by slightly different names such as CamScanner - Phone PDF Creator and CamScanner-Scanner to scan PDFs. Kaspersky researchers recently found malware in an app called CamScanner, a phone-based PDF creator that includes OCR (optical character recognition) and has more than 100 million downloads in Google Play. KasperskyPremium Support and Professional Services.KasperskyEndpoint Security for Business Advanced.KasperskyEndpoint Security for Business Select.
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