Discovering CovidLock

Chad Anderson, Tarik Saleh and Sean M. Mcnee
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Chad Anderson: DomainTools, USA
Tarik Saleh: DomainTools, USA
Sean M. Mcnee: DomainTools, USA

Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 2021, vol. 5, issue 1, 27-36

Abstract: In this paper the authors show the breadth of Coronavirus-themed maliciousness and how they prioritised their hunting across such a large influx of malicious infrastructure to discover CovidLock, a novel Android-based screen locker malware. A full technical analysis of CovidLock and its functions provides a basis for analysing other Android malware. This full-depth paper will show everything from hunting automation and prioritisation techniques to the reversing of the malicious application.

Keywords: malware; mobile malware; mobile threat research; COVID-19; ransomware (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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