The Trojan-SMS malware, dubbed “Trojan – SMS. AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a,” is being distributed via an unknown malicious Web site, said Denis Maslennikov, senior malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab.
Users are prompted to install a “media player application” that is a little bigger than 13 kilobytes, but which is hiding the Trojan inside, according to Kaspersky and mobile-phone security company Lookout, which analyzed the threat.
Like all Android apps, the program asks for permission to do certain things upon install. In this case it asks for permission to send SMS messages, with a prompt that identifies it as a “service that costs you money,” as well as to read or delete data and collect data about the phone and the phone ID, Kaspersky and Lookout said.
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