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Redbrowser.A trojan detected
 

Redbrowser.A is a J2ME based Java Midlet that sends SMS messages to premium rate numbers. It affects Symbian S60 devices.

Redbrowser.A pretends to be a WAP browser that offers free WAP browsing using free SMS messages to send the WAP page contents. Actually Redbrowser.A sends SMS messages to expensive numbers, causing an increased phone bill to the user. Redbrowser.A contains a fixed list of ten phone numbers to which it sends the SMS messages. After Redbrowser.A has shown the texts, it picks a random number from the list and sends an SMS message to it.

Redbrowser.A claims to be sending free SMS messages as part of it's normal operation to fool the user to allow the application to use Java SMS capabilities in phones which require user acceptance before sending SMS messages.

The texts in Redbrowser.A are written in Russian, which limits it's spreading.

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