{"id":87531,"date":"2019-02-07T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs_admin.quickheal.com\/?p=87531"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T11:05:06","slug":"28-fake-apps-removed-google-play-store-post-quick-heal-security-lab-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/28-fake-apps-removed-google-play-store-post-quick-heal-security-lab-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Fake Apps removed from Google Play Store post Quick Heal Security Lab reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick Heal Security Lab has spotted 28 Fake Apps with over 48,000+ (all together) installations on Google Play Store. Google play has removed a total of 28 fake apps from the Play Store after reports by Quick Heal Security Lab. The apps do not have any legitimate functionality related to App name. All apps are made by the same developer ‘Sarvesh Developer’.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 1:\u00a0Fake apps on Google Play Store<\/p>\n

The description of “Credit Card Process” application on play store is,\u00a0“provide credit card process” but in the actual application there is no\u00a0information related to the credit card process. Same\u00a0is the case with\u00a0“Home Loan Advisor” application,\u00a0where the\u00a0description on play store is,\u00a0“Gives advice for home loan” but in the actual application there isn\u2019t any information related to home loan advice. Developer develop these apps only for earning\u00a0money by showing advertisements.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 2:\u00a0Google Play Screenshot<\/p>\n

Screenshot of application available on Google play store as shown in Fig. 2 don\u2019t match with application screens shown in Fig. 3.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 3:\u00a0Applications screens<\/p>\n

All apps have same functionality-\u00a0it gives some task to earn money. To complete each task we need to watch some ads, click on ads and download some apps. After clicking and downloading apps we get points. These fake apps\u00a0claim that after 10 points, money can be transfered\u00a0to Paytm,\u00a0but according to user comments on Play store,\u00a0transaction shows completed status in fake app but money does not get transferred \u00a0to Paytm wallet.<\/p>\n

To complete task, user needs\u00a0to watch 22 advertisement, click on one advertisement and install one application.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 4:\u00a0Task Dashboard<\/p>\n

When user clicks\u00a0on arrow shown in Fig. 4, it shows full screen advertisement.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 5:\u00a0Ads shown by Fake Apps<\/p>\n

After Ads are closed\u00a0by user, it shows timer of 5 sec as shown in Fig.6 and goes\u00a0back to task dashboard.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 6:\u00a0Shows count<\/p>\n

In notification windows it shows message to user,\u00a0“Because of some issues payment was not done, today everyone will get the payment”. The message is in Hindi language so we can assume that developer could be Indian.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 7:\u00a0Notification windows<\/p>\n

User Comments on Google play Store<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Quick Heal Detection<\/b><\/p>\n

Quick Heal successfully detect these malware under variants of Android.Fakeapp.A<\/p>\n

Here is the list of fake application name<\/b><\/strong>s<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0with <\/b><\/strong>MD5:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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How to stay safe from fake mobile apps<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Check an app\u2019s description before you download it.<\/li>\n
  2. Check the app developer\u2019s name and their website. If the name sounds strange or odd, you have reasons to suspect it.<\/li>\n
  3. Go through the reviews and ratings of the app.<\/li>\n
  4. Avoid downloading apps from third-party app stores.<\/li>\n
  5. Use a reliable mobile antivirus<\/u><\/a> that can prevent fake and malicious apps from getting installed on your phone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Quick Heal Security Lab has spotted 28 Fake Apps with over 48,000+ (all together) installations on Google Play Store. Google play has removed a total of 28 fake apps from the Play Store after reports by Quick Heal Security Lab. The apps do not have any legitimate functionality related to App name. All apps are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":87549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87550,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87531\/revisions\/87550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}