Android trojan uses Tor to hide the instruction server location

More and more malicious programs use the Tor to hide commands to control the IP address location of the server. The Tor anonymous service is called the Dark network and multiple relay nodes are used to hide the original IP address location. However, most of these malware targets the desktop.

Now Kaspersky reported the first Android-targeted Tor Trojan. The attacker modified the Tor client Orbot and used the. onion proxy server of the Tor network to hide commands to control the server location. It is called backdoor. androidOS. torec. malicious programs can accept commands to execute a series of tasks, including intercepting incoming information and sending device information to the command control server, including model, operating system version, country, application installation list, And IMEI, it can be used for remote code execution.

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