{"id":217982,"date":"2025-07-16T01:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/android-malware-konfety-uses-malformed-apks-to-evade-detection"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:16:01","slug":"android-malware-konfety-uses-malformed-apks-to-evade-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/android-malware-konfety-uses-malformed-apks-to-evade-detection","title":{"rendered":"Android malware Konfety uses malformed APKs to evade detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/android-malware-konfety-uses-malformed-apks-to-evade-detection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new variant of the Konfety Android malware emerged with a malformed ZIP structure along with other obfuscation methods that allow it to evade analysis and detection.<\/p>\n<p>Konfety poses as a legitimate app, mimicking innocuous products available on Google Play, but features none of the promised functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The capabilities of the malware include redirecting users to malicious sites, pushing unwanted app installs, and fake browser notifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new variant of the Konfety Android malware emerged with a malformed ZIP structure along with other obfuscation methods that allow it to evade analysis and detection. Konfety poses as a legitimate app, mimicking innocuous products available on Google Play, but features none of the promised functionality. The capabilities of the malware include redirecting users [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}