This latest warning comes just as as Google announced an “App Defense Alliance” to “ensure the safety of the Play Store.” The seven apps, discovered by the threat research team at Wandera, do not contain ad fraud malware themselves. Instead they are dropper apps—they download malware “payload” apps and install them onto target devices. This leaves the user with both the dropper app and the payload app installed. Both need to be identified and deleted. The dropper apps bypass store security to bring in threats from outside the ecosystem.

These dropper apps pull the malware payloads from Github, and Wandera VP Michael Covington told me the team was escalating details about the apps “because the backdoor introduced via the dropper code is a significant risk for anyone using these apps—given the obfuscation techniques in use, we have not yet ruled out other apps that may be using similar techniques to introduce unsanctioned code.”

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