“Kaspersky’s laboratory”, the Russian developer of systems for protection against viruses, trojan programs and a spam, informs on detection of the first nocuous program for the mobile phones, capable to execute Java-appendices (J2ME).
The Trojan spreads in the guise of a J2ME application “RedBrowser”, which promise to enable the user to visit WAP sites without using a GPRS connection. Trojan’s author says , that it is realized by sending and reception of free-of-charge SMS-messages. Actually the Trojan sends SMSs to some premium paid mobile services, at a rate of $5 - $6 per each of such a messege.
Trojan program has received name Trojan-SMS.J2ME.RedBrowser.a (by classification of virus analysts of the company).
The Trojan is a J2ME application, may be called “redbrowser.jar”, and is 54482 bytes in size.
The Trojan can be downloaded and installed to the victim device either via the Internet (from a WAP site) or via Bluetooth or from PC.
The Jar-archive contains :
* FS.class - auxiliary file (2719 bytes in size)
* FW.class - auxiliary file (2664 bytes in size)
* icon.png - graphics file (3165 bytes in size)
* logo101.png - graphics file (16829 bytes in size)
* logo128.pnh - graphics file (27375 bytes in size)
* M.class - interface file (5339 bytes in size)
* SM.class - Trojan application which sends SMS messages (1945 bytes in size)
The user is able to remove this trojan by using the standard “Remove application” utility of his phone.
This is not firs trojan for mobile.
But it’s first trojan application in J2me
If you know something about other trojans for
cell phones tell us please
thera was spof.SMSs that asck you to replay with some message to premium paid service
as I say before…
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The Trojan arrives as Jennifer Lopez Theme++ by Dj Hardcore.sis (226,994 bytes), disguising itself as a theme pack..
You are right somewhere but we talk about first java-Trojan for mobile.
There are much more devices with j2me support than devices builded on Symbian Os
Wonderaing how the market looks today for defense against cell phone viruses? Any new additions to the market? Didn\’t realize it was such a problem until I started doing research after finding your post. Thanks.