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Recently, we - i.e Giuseppe Pacelli (student at Eurecom), Matteo Bertolino (student at Eurecom) and their supervisors Ludovic Apvrille (Telecom ParisTech) and myself - had a closer look at a few Android samples infected with the Feiwo adware. This adware family is not new, but the instances we analyzed were still undetected by all anti-virus vendors last week, as far as we know. Besides aggressively serving ads to your mobile phone, this potentially unwanted application (PUA) posts your phone number and list of applications you installed...