Table of contents:
- What do applications infected with SimBad produce?
- How to uninstall the applications generated by SimBad?
Nearly 206 applications have been found in the Google Play Store, with more than 150 million downloads, infected by a dangerous malware called SimBad. Most of the infected apps are simulators (games) and cause massive mobile adware campaign by displaying lots of ads outside of the app and no possibility to delete these applications easily.
The person in charge of detecting this problem has been Check Point, which has found the bug and brought it to the attention of the community .SimBad can carry out 3 different activities: showing ads, phishing and exposing data to other applications. This malware has a great ability to open new URLs in any browser and generate all kinds of pages that will try to attack your data. Another of its great dangers is the possibility of opening applications on Google Play or the App Store so that you can install them on your phone and attackers can generate income.
What do applications infected with SimBad produce?
These applications are easy to detect because your phone will perform some of these strange behaviors:
- You will see ads outside of apps.
- Google Play or App Store keeps opening and redirecting to another app.
- Hide the icon of your application in the launcher.
- Open a browser with links generated by the application developer.
- Download APK files and ask you to install them.
- Search for words in Google Play proposed by the application.
There are applications that can combat this type of threat but it is best to use the following remedy that we propose, with which you will be able to eliminate all traces that SimBad malware could have generated on your smartphone.
How to uninstall the applications generated by SimBad?
In case you have been infected with any of these applications you should use this remedy.
On Android
- Access the menu of Settings.
- Click Applications or Application Manager.
- Scan for suspicious applications and uninstall them.
- If you can't find any strange apps, delete all apps you have recently installed.
On iPhone
- Access the menu of Settings.
- Go to Safari.
- In the list of options, make sure “Block Pop-ups” is selected.
- Then, look for “Advanced” and enter “Website Data”.
- Delete all pages you don't know.
With this you will have eliminated the possible traces of SimBad on your device.
