Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Types of Android malware

There are different kinds of malware types that can infect an Android device. The following are some of the most common ones:

• Banking malware: It can be distributed as fake banking applications to steal banking credentials typed by the users, or steal any other sensitive personal information from the user's account. Banking Trojans can intercept or modify banking transactions and perform dangerous actions such as sending, deleting, and intercepting SMS messages, as well as keylogging.

• Spyware: Spyware monitors, logs, and sends important information from the target device to the attacker's server. This information might comprise SMS messages, recorded phone calls, screenshots, keylogs, emails, or any other application ...