• Kaspersky :camscanner for Android has a rough code

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    Google has removed the app but the app has 100 million install base.
    Recommendations are to uninstall immediately.

    Malicious Android app had more than 100 million downloads in Google Play

    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. Various resources call the app by slightly different names such as CamScanner — Phone PDF Creator and CamScanner-Scanner to scan PDFs….

    Kaspersky products detect this module as Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n, which we have observed in some apps preinstalled on Chinese smartphones. As the name suggests, the module is a Trojan Dropper. That means the module extracts and runs another malicious module from an encrypted file included in the app’s resources. 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…

    https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/camscanner-malicious-android-app/28156/

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