GingerMaster Android Malware Utilizing A Root Exploit

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GingerMaster Android Malware Utilizing A Root Exploit
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Date	2011 / 18 aug2011
Editor/Conference	CS State University
Link	http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/GingerMaster/ (Archive copy)
Author	Xuxian Jiang
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Abstract

“ Yesterday (08/17/2011), we have just seen the rapid evolution of DroidKungFu in the last two months. Today, my research team, in collaboration with NQ Mobile, identified a new high-risk malware -- GingerMaster, which is the first Android malware that utilizes a root exploit against Android 2.3 (i.e., Gingerbread). Unlike previous ones with root exploits (e.g., DroidKungFu) to compromise phones running Android 2.2 or below, GingerMaster takes advantage of the most recent root exploit against Android platform 2.3 (which was discovered in April 2011 [1]). As this is the first time such malware has been identified, it is not surprising when our experiments show that it can successfully evade the detection of all tested (leading) mobile anti-virus software.

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 @misc{2011BFR845,
   editor = {CS State University},
   author = {Xuxian Jiang},
   title = {GingerMaster Android Malware Utilizing A Root Exploit},
   date = {18},
   month = Aug,
   year = {2011},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/GingerMaster/}},
 }