Google constantly keeps a close eye on apps on its play store. Google checks ad fraud, malware (viruses) time to time on Play Store. It happens quite often that Google deletes applications from Play Store if any virus or fraud is detected. Despite this, such apps are constantly available on the Google Play Store. Google has now removed an app called CamScanner from its Play Store. With this app, you can convert a photo to a document. This app that converts photos to PDF is very popular among users.
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This app called CamScanner was downloaded more than 100 million times from the Google Play Store. Because of this malware in this app, users had to watch the ads This malware used to prompt the user to sign up to these paid services. According to a researchers' report, the app contained The Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n malware. This module attracts another Malicious module from its encrypted resource file.
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Researchers report that CamScanner has removed the malware module in the latest version, but different versions can be found on different devices and many of them contain malis code. Google is creating a new mechanism to scan and remove such apps on its Play Store, but developers who design apps associated with such malware are looking a step further. Google has designed the 'Google Play Pratt' guard in 2018. The guard on the Play Store claims to quickly scan and delete the Malicious apps. Google is scanning them before publishing a new app on the Play Store and it'll take at least 3 days.
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