MDK: the largest mobile botnet in China

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MDK: the largest mobile botnet in China
Botnet	MDK, Bmaster, Rootstrap
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target	Android
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2013 / 2013-01-25
Editor/Conference	Symantec
Link	http://www.symantec.com/connect/ko/blogs/mdk-largest-mobile-botnet-china (Archive copy)
Author	Flora Liu
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ Symantec’s analysis suggests the MDK Trojan is a new variant of Android.Backscript. Our detection for this threat family has been in place since September 2012. The code of MDK is very similar to Android.Backscript and they use the same certificate to sign APKs. However, unlike the previous versions, this new variant uses an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm to encrypt data, like servers and commands, in a file.

Bibtex

 @misc{Liu2013BFR1287,
   editor = {Symantec},
   author = {Flora Liu},
   title = {MDK: the largest mobile botnet in China},
   date = {25},
   month = Jan,
   year = {2013},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.symantec.com/connect/ko/blogs/mdk-largest-mobile-botnet-china}},
 }