DeepSec2019 Talk: Android Malware Adventures – Analyzing Samples and Breaking into C&C – Kürşat Oğuzhan Akıncı & Mert Can Coşkuner
Android malware is evolving every day and is everywhere, even in Google Play Store. Malware developers have found ways to bypass Google’s Bouncer as well as antivirus solutions, and many alternative techniques to operate like Windows malware does. Using benign looking applications working as a dropper is just one of them. This talk is about android malware on Google Play Store targeting Turkey such as Red Alert, Exobot, Anubis, etc. The presentation held at DeepSec 2019 will cover the following issues: Techniques to analyze samples: Unencrypted samples are often used to retrieve personal information to sell and do not have obfuscation. Encrypted samples however are used for sophisticated tasks like stealing banking information. They decrypt themselves by getting the key from a twitter account owned by the malware developer and operate by communicating with