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Most likely load arbitrary binary code and execute it. Which also makes it really hard to figure out what it actually did.

Among the options of what could be pushed:

- proxyware, turning your network into a residential proxy that can then be sold to anyone willing to pay for them to commit crimes, send spam, scrape, ... with your IP [I believe this is the primary suspect here]

- other standard botnet crap like DDoS bots

- exploits that try to break out of the sandbox to establish persistence, steal other data, or steal your Google account token

- code that steals all data/tokens that the app itself has access to

- adware that shows ad notifications etc.

- ransomware that tries to prevent you from leaving the app (of course this works best if they get a sandbox escape first, but I'm sure you can get pretty close with just aggressive creative use of existing APIs)





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