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Trojanised Mobile Phone Game Makes Expensive Phone Calls Posted by Mikko @ 14:26 GMT

We have received reports of a malicious Windows Mobile game that creates significant phone bills to affected users.

The game in question is called 3D Anti-terrorist action, and it's manufactured by Beijing Huike Technology in China.

3D Anti-terrorist animation

The game itself is a 3D first-person shooter.

3D Anti-terrorist animation

Apparently some Russian malware author took the game and trojanized it. Then he uploaded the trojanized version to several Windows Mobile freeware download sites.

Quite quickly people started reporting that the phone was making expensive calls on it's own.

Here's an example of a thread on the XDA-Developers forum:

3D Anti-terrorist

When analyzing the code of the trojanized game, it's easy to see how it initiates several phone calls and waits for the calls to proceed. The calls are billed by minute.

3D Anti-terrorist

The numbers the trojan dials are:

  • +882346077
  • +17675033611
  • +88213213214
  • +25240221601
  • +2392283261
  • +881842011123
But how do such international premium-rate numbers work?

It turns out there are several companies that make all of their money by offering expensive international premium rate numbers in faraway countries. Go figure.

Maxtis

The case reminds us of a similar incident ("Case Mosquitos") on Symbian devices, six years ago.

F-Secure Mobile Security detects and blocks the trojanized version of this game.