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# Are These Malicious Google Play Applications Still On Your Smartphone? | Updated June 2019

![Picture of Roxane Suau](https://blog.pradeo.com/hubfs/roxane-suau.jpg)

 By [Roxane Suau](https://blog.pradeo.com/author/roxane-suau) on June, 13 2019

[mailto:?subject=Take%20a%20look%20at%20this%20article](mailto:?subject=Take%20a%20look%20at%20this%20article)

![ ](https://blog.pradeo.com/hubfs/app_danger_store.jpg)

**When Google and Apple remove malicious or leaky applications from their stores, people who have them on their smartphone are not notified of their dangerous behaviors. Therefore, millions of users keep them on their devices, exposing all the data they manipulate to identified threats.**

 

In 2017, Google enhanced Play Protect to reduce the amount of malicious applications on the Play Store. It resulted in the detection and deletion of 700,000 official applications over a year. 

This year, the company’s newly released “[Year in review](https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_Security_2018_Report_Final.pdf)” discloses that **0.04%** of application installs from Google Play are potentially harmful. While this percentage may seem small, if you consider the Android app downloads for 2018 (estimated by Sensor Tower at almost 76 billion), it means that in 2018, **30 millions of app installed from Google Play were malicious or leaky.**

Despite these reinforced measures, the Pradeo Lab still frequently uncover [**harmful applications on official stores**](https://blog.pradeo.com/google-play-app-peel-smart-remote-data-leakage). Further to the findings, applications are usually quickly deleted from the stores as well as all of their existing traces. A perfect illustration would be for instance “Peel Smart Remote” which was deleted from the Google Play store last week because of its intrusive activities. However, the app still appear on Google search engine, but when clicking on the URL, it can no longer be found.

 

![peel\_smart\_remote-google-play](https://blog.pradeo.com/hs-fs/hubfs/peel_smart_remote-google-play.png?width=579&name=peel_smart_remote-google-play.png)

![](https://blog.pradeo.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-8.png?width=600&name=image-8.png)

 

Through this approach, stores prevent the infection to spread to new users, but they **don’t initiate any retroactive actions**. This lack of communication has a huge impact, because according to a study conducted by the Pradeo Lab in November 2018, **89% of malicious applications that were deleted from stores are still installed on active devices** 6 months after their deletion. A list of mobile applications that Google Play removed in 2019's first semester can be found at the end of this article.

As a security head, preventing the use of these malicious applications by the mobile workforce isn’t easy, because there is no official listing of them. Pradeo Security [Mobile Threat Defense](https://www.pradeo.com/en-US/mobile-threat-protection) solution relies on a behavioral analysis engine to **detect and understand every actions performed on mobile devices**. Thus, [Pradeo Security](https://www.pradeo.com/en-US/pradeo-security) identifies with precision applications security level and allows organizations to block malwares (identified by stores or not) and behaviors that don’t comply with their company policy.

 

---

**For more information:**

- White Paper - [Mobile Data Privacy (Risk analysis, leagl framework, breach prevention...)](https://blog.pradeo.com/mobile-data-privacy-risk-legal-breach-prevention)
- Article - [Monetization of mobile applications: Everything about user profiling](https://blog.pradeo.com/mobile-applications-user-profiling)
- Webinar - [Data Privacy Regulations: Why Mobile Security Is Key To Organisations Compliance](https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/6442630559156348930) 
- Datasheet - [Pradeo Security Mobile Threat Defense](https://www.pradeo.com/en-US/datasheet/protection-flotte-mobile)

---

 

**303 applications removed by Google Play in 2019's first semester:**

com.heavy.excavator.simulator.driveandtransport  
com.hoverboard.racing.speed.simulator  
com.zg.real.tractor.farming.simulator.game  
com.ambulancerescue.driving.simulator  
com.firetruckemergency.driver  
com.heavymountain.bus2018simulator  
com.farming.tractor.realharvest.simulator  
com.carparking.challenge.parksimulator  
com.watersurfing.carstunt.racing.simulator  
com.speedboat.jetski.racing.simulator  
com.volumen.booster.equalizer  
com.ks.prado.Car.parking.race.drive.apps  
com.zg.offroad.Oil.tanker.transporter.truck.cargo.simulator  
com.hummerlimotaxi.simulator.driving  
com.monstertruck.demolition  
com.offroad.gold.transport.truck  
com.sea.animals.trucktransport.simulator   
com.water.surfingrace.motorbike.stunt  
com.policechase.thiefpersecution  
com.police.plane.transporter.game  
com.ambulance.driver.extreme.rescue.simulator  
com.hovercraftracer.speedracing.boat  
com.cars.transport.truckdriver.simulator  
com.motorbike.pizza.delivery.drivesimulator  
com.heavy.excavator.stonecutter.simulator  
com.bottle.shoot.archery.game  
com.offroadbuggy.car.racingsimulator  
com.garbagetruck.city.trash.cleaningsimulator  
com.tanks.attack.simulator.war.attack  
com.dinosaurpark.trainrescue  
com.pirateshipboat.racing3d.simulator  
com.flyingtaxi.simulator.race  
com.jetpackinwater.racersimualtor.danger  
com.boostervolumen.amplifiersoundandvolumen  
com.farmgames.animal.farming.simulator  
com.simulator.offroadjeep.car.racing  
com.monstertruck.racing.competition.simulator   
com.simulator.tractorfarming.driving  
com.simulator.flyingcar.stunt.extremetracks.racing  
com.impossible.farming.transport.simulator  
com.volumenbooster.equalizerboost  
com.mustang.rally.championship.racingsimulator  
com.deleted.photo.recovery  
com.race.boat.speedy  
com.cycle.bike.racing.game  
com.write.name.live.wallpaper.hd  
com.maginal.unicorn.game  
com.grafton.cycle.jungle.rider.race  
com.lovecallingapps.lovecaller.Screen  
com.city.car.funny.racing.stunt.game.pro  
com.citycar.funny.racinggame.stunt.simulator  
com.urban.Limo.taxi.simulation.games  
com.cg.heavy.tractor.simulator.game  
com.campervan.drivingsimulator.caravan  
com.globalcoporation.fullscreenincomingcaller.app  
com.bootleshoot.sniper  
com.mustache.beard.editor  
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com.photoeditor.girlfriend.addgirlstophoto.pic  
com.tracker.location.number.free.spy  
com.garden.editor.app  
com.fortunewheel.game  
com.farming.transport.tractor.simulator  
com.offroad.tractor.transport.drivingsimulator  
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