How to Protect Android Apps Against Saderat Malware
Learn how to detect and protect Android apps against Saderat malware using Appdome’s no-code unified mobile app defense platform.
What is Saderat?
Saderat is a sophisticated banking trojan targeting Android devices, particularly in Middle Eastern countries. It disguises itself as legitimate banking apps to steal sensitive financial information, including login credentials and credit card details. Saderat evades detection by using encryption and obfuscation to conceal its malicious components. It abuses functions such as Android Accessibility Services, which it uses to intercept inputs or data, grant itself permissions, prevent uninstallation, and manipulate UI elements to further its malicious goals. Saderat also uses SMS permissions to intercept verification codes, overlay attacks to capture user input, and device administrator privileges to maintain persistence on the infected device. By employing these techniques, Saderat enables attackers to perform unauthorized transactions, posing a significant threat to user privacy and financial security. Its primary goal is to conduct fraudulent transactions and financial theft, making it a serious risk for users of banking applications.
How Does Appdome Protect Against Saderat?
Taking all the above into consideration, you can use Appdome to protect against Saderat using a combination of the following protections:
- RASP – Prevents Saderat from injecting itself into installed apps and repackaging them. Also includes anti-tampering, anti-debugging, anti-emulator, and other protections against dynamic attacks at runtime.
- Code Obfuscation – Protects against decompiling and malicious reverse engineering.
- Root Detection – Protects mobile apps from running on rooted devices. Rooting exposes apps to tampering, data theft, and malware by giving attackers elevated access to system files and app data.
- MitM Attack Prevention – Prevents Saderat from intercepting or hijacking sessions to harvest or steal data.
- Block App Overlay Attacks – Detects and prevents fake/malicious screen overlays from displaying on top of the app screen and concealing the legitimate app screen. Mobile malware and Trojans like Saderat use overlay attacks to trick users into revealing sensitive information or performing harmful actions inadvertently.
- Keylogging Prevention – Prevents the use of malicious keyloggers which may be used to intercept two-factor authentication codes or harvest sensitive information.
- Prevent Accessibility Services Malware – Prevents malicious actions taken by malware that exploit Android’s AccessibilityService, which when abused can be used to intercept sensitive inputs like passwords and 2FA codes, take screenshots, and simulate user actions such as taps and swipes. This allows attackers to manipulate apps, steal data, impersonate the real user, or perform fraudulent transactions without the user’s knowledge.
- Google Play Store Signature Validation – Protects against fake apps, clones, masquerading, which malware often do to trick users into performing harmful actions.
Each of the protections above are linked to the relevant knowledge base article for that feature, which provide detailed information about each feature and also explain how to implement the protection in your Android app.
Prerequisites
To use Appdome’s to protect Android apps against Saderat, you’ll need the following:
- Appdome account (create a free Appdome account here)
- A license for the relevant features mentioned above.
- Mobile App (.apk or .aab for Android)
- Signing Credentials (see Signing Secure Android apps).
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