Over the past few years in China, many new manufacturers of smartphones, who are developing their own branded mobile devices. Most of the products sold in the Middle Kingdom, while some part of it is delivered to other countries, including in Ukraine. Usually, gadgets from Doogee, Leagoo, Cubot, Uhans and other Chinese brands rarely get to store shelves in Europe, and even more so in the US, but sometimes there are exceptions.
Dr.Web anti-virus company to check a few totally new smartphone from a little-known Chinese brands and concluded, that all their customers "as a gift" get dangerous Trojan. Related software embedded in firmware Doogee smartphones, Leagoo, Cubot, Hans, Prestige, Zopo and even a couple of brands. It is able to automaticity mode to download and install third-party software without the knowledge of the owner of the mobile device, while giving them access to personal information.
In fact, smartphone makers specially introduced in its smartphones that opportunity, as it is implemented in the firmware level, which is directly "out of the box" is installed on almost all mobile devices under these brands. Experts have called a dangerous new Trojan named Android.Triada.231, and I managed to find it in the source code libandroid_runtime.so system library.
Interesting thing, Chinese developers are provided to protect the mechanism of this malware from interfering, to a smartphone owner could not remove it. The only way to get rid of it - to get root-superuser, and then manually remove all the infected files. According to Dr.Web experts, Now meet dangerous Trojan Android.Triada.231 can be in more than 40 Chinese popular models of mobile devices.
Most often, the Trojans built into smartphones Company Leagoo, because it was able to meet virtually all of its branded mobile devices - M9, M8, M8 Pro, M5, M5 More, T11 More, Z5C, Z3C and Z1C. This indicates, that the manufacturer does not follow the safety of its drivers for mobile devices, or he deliberately adds to a dangerous Trojan, that in the future be able to steal user data and installed on other people's phones any software.
