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Masque Attack Abuses iOS’s Code Signing to Spoof Apps and Bypass Privacy Protection

  • Posted on:October 31, 2016 at 1:00 am
  • Posted in:Mobile, Social, Vulnerabilities
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    Trend Micro
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First reported in 2014, Masque Attack allowed hackers to replace a genuine app from the App Store with a malformed, enterprise-signed app that had the same Bundle Identifier (Bundle ID). Apple subsequently patched the vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-3772 and CVE-2015-3725), but while it closed a door, scammers seemed to have opened a window. Haima’s repackaged, adware-laden apps and its native helper application prove that App Store scammers are still at it.

This is in light of the significant amount of malicious and potentially unwanted iOS apps we found signed with enterprise certificates and had the same Bundle IDs as their official versions on the App Store. Delving into them, we found that Haima and other third-party app stores were pulling off their scams by abusing a feature in iOS’s code signing process to achieve data inheritance.

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Tags: HaimaiOSrepackaged appsthird-party app stores

A Case of Misplaced Trust: How a Third-Party App Store Abuses Apple’s Developer Enterprise Program to Serve Adware

  • Posted on:September 12, 2016 at 4:54 am
  • Posted in:Mobile, Social
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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For bogus applications to be profitable, they should be able to entice users into installing them. Scammers do so by riding on the popularity of existing applications, embedding them with unwanted content—even malicious payloads—and masquerading them as legitimate. These repackaged apps are peddled to unsuspecting users, mostly through third-party app stores.

Haima exactly does that, and more. We discovered this China-based third-party iOS app store aggressively promoting their repackaged apps in social network channels—YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter—banking on the popularity of games and apps such as Minecraft, Terraria, and Instagram to lure users into downloading them.

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Tags: adwareiOSMobilePokemon Gorepackaged apps

A Look at Repackaged Apps and their Effect on the Mobile Threat Landscape

  • Posted on:July 15, 2014 at 8:08 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Mobile
  • Author:
    Peter Yan (Mobile Security Engineer)
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Repackaged applications, which are a category of fake applications, play a crucial role in the proliferation of mobile malware. Like fake apps, repackaged apps use social engineering tactics, displaying similar user interface (UI), icon, package names and app labels as the legitimate/official version of the apps they spoofed. This is done to trick users into…

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Tags: data theftfake appshigh-risk appsmalware infectionmobile malwarerepackaged appsTrojanized apps

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