Trojan Android PDF converter app found on Google Play

With Android having a massive market share of more than 75-percent, Google has an enviable hold on the mobile industry. But, it also has its task cut out to make its ecosystem safe from cybercriminals. Over the years, the search engine giant has brought in stringent measures to control malware and adware-laced apps entering the Play store, but some intelligent hackers succeed to sneak in their malicious apps to prey on millions of naive phone users.

In the latest development, Kaspersky researchers have detected malicious nodule ‘Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n’ in the Android CamScanner app. The latter used to be a legitimate Portable Document Format (PDF) converter app with OCR (optical character recognition) capability and a popular one too, with more than 100 million installs on Google Play store.