Android Counterclank is (not) malware
One recent example was a bit controversial. Several popular apps, published by at least three developers - iApps7 Inc, Ogre Games and Redmicapps, have been
identified by Symantec as malicious and the original story was pushed by the Symantec PR department.
The claim was later disputed by the team from
Lookout in a blog post that gives more details about the functionality of an advertising framework included with the offending apps.
It turns out that the Apperhand framework is related to an advertising framework used more than half a year ago by the Plankton app. I previously wrote that it is not clear whether this framework is malicious or not.
Indeed, we have to go back several years, to the birth of Potentially unwanted applications (PUA) on Windows, which would probably be the best way to describe the applications reporting to Apperhand.com. They are not inherently created with malicious intent.
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