Samsung's Galaxy Store doesn't track install counts, but the apps in question cumulatively have hundreds of reviews, including several that make a note of malware warnings at the time of install. The Showbox subreddit notes that Showbox is 'down,' has been for nearly two years, and that third-party websites and apps purporting to be related are 'fakes.' Google, we should note, doesn't host any of the apps in question on the Play Store. Self-hosted sources of the Showbox app make similar claims, advertising the app as a 'movie database' application with an integrated VPN - wink wink. However, the name has that reputation, and other 'experts' who prefer to remain anonymous assure me that the app at one point enabled piracy. We haven't tested each of the offending applications individually, given the nature of the warnings attached to their installation, and can't directly confirm whether the apps currently provide access to pirated content. The app descriptions claim they do not host pirated content and do not enable piracy. These apps are all clones of another well-known app called Showbox, with a reputation of enabling piracy and providing access to copyrighted content, including movies and TV shows. Samsung isn't just distributing apps that could potentially expose customers to malware, though. 'So at any moment it may become a trojan/malware, hence it's unsafe and thus why so many vendors flagged it in VT/Play Protect.' Similar issues were documented in at least two Showbox apps on the Galaxy Store, though it may also affect others. Linuxct added that there are very few legitimate use cases for this functionality, and it could be weaponized easily. A subsequent investigation revealed that ad tech in the app is capapble of doing dynamic code execution - in short, while the app itself as it's distributed may not directly contain malware, it can download and execure other code, which could include malware. We reached out to Android security analyst linuxct for more detailed information regarding these vulnerabilities.

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