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Android Malware and Analysis
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Android Malware and Analysis

by Ken Dunham, Shane Hartman, Manu Quintans, Jose Andre Morales, Tim Strazzere
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
242 pages
5h 24m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Malware threats, hoaxes, and taxonoMy
ads were not easily blocked and usually required either the complete
removal of the infected application or another application to block the
ads from being pushed.
Counterclank
Counterclank was a variety of Plankton Android malware and was
also known as Apperhand SDK. is application had two major anti-
virus companies scratching their heads trying to determine whether
this was an adware or a malware. It turned out Counterclank was
an aggressive form of an ad network. It was capable of identifying
a user’s device by their IMEI. Counterclank had features like push
notication ads where it constantly exerted advertisements on the
device’s notication bar. It also had the app Icon feature, which cre-
ated a ...
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ISBN: 9781482252200