What's leading you to believe #2? I agree that is the solution if this is
indeed tapjacking.

Though sadly, every time I or other people have asked for a PoC or
explanation, we've been met with radio silence. Until I can get my hands on
this or a full explanation, I'm inclined to believe that this "rootkit" is
just a custom launcher.

-Tim Strazzere


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Subodh Iyengar <[email protected]>wrote:

> Three things:
> 1. This type of malware is already known in the community, so much so that
> it already has a name for itself, "Tapjacking".
> 2. This is already solved using the setFilterTouchesWhenObscured flag in
> Gingerbread and beyond.
> 3. This type of  not really a "rootkit", when the OS can detect it's
> running.
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:22:05 AM UTC-7, RichardC wrote:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2012/07/04/poc_android_**
>> clickjacking_rootkit/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/04/poc_android_clickjacking_rootkit/>
>>
>>
>> *"The clickjacking vulnerability is present in Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream
>> Sandwich) and earlier versions of the smartphone OS. The mechanism -
>> described as a "user interface readdresing attack" - means the malware can
>> be installed by a user thinking he or she is agreeing to some other action
>> and without a reboot. No privilege escalation is needed, nor any nobbling
>> of the operating system's core kernel."*
>>
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