Names | BadBazaar | |
Category | Malware | |
Type | Backdoor, Info stealer, Exfiltration | |
Description | (Lookout) We named this malware family BadBazaar in response to an early variant that posed as a third-party app store titled “APK Bazar.” Bazar is a lesser known spelling of Bazaar. Lookout has since acquired 111 unique samples of the BadBazaar surveillanceware dating back to late 2018. Over 70% of these apps were found in Uyghur-language communication channels within the second half of 2022. The malware primarily masquerades as a variety of Android apps, such as battery managers, video players, radio apps, messaging apps, dictionaries, and religious apps. We also found instances of apps pretending to be a benign third-party app store for Uyghurs. | |
Information | <https://www.lookout.com/blog/uyghur-surveillance-campaign-badbazaar-moonshine> | |
Malpedia | <https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/apk.badbazaar> |
Last change to this tool card: 27 December 2024
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Poison Carp, Evil Eye | ![]() | 2018-Jun 2023 | ![]() |
1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
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