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Father tricked into installing a malicious APK for a ₹5 medical appointment payment, what should we do?

My father booked an appointment at CMRI today over the phone. Some time later, he received a call from a number claiming to be related to the appointment and was asked to install an APK called Appointment_booking.apk and pay ₹5 through it.

He installed it and attempted the ₹5 payment, but it failed. They asked him to try again, which made him suspicious, so he uninstalled the app.

I checked the APK on VirusTotal and multiple major antivirus vendors flagged it as a banking trojan/spyware/trojan dropper.

As a precaution, I have:

Blocked the card he used

Told him not to use banking/UPI apps on that phone

Factory-reset the phone

What else should we do? Should we change his UPI PIN/banking passwords, contact the bank, or report it to 1930 even though the payment failed?

Also, is his phone/account safe after a factory reset, or could his credentials already be compromised?

Any advice would be appreciated.

u/_Adeptus_Xiao — 10 days ago

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u/_Adeptus_Xiao — 3 months ago