Weird package "com.google.ccc.abuse.droidguard.droidguasso"

Disclaimer

This APK's code is obfuscated, hence it's difficult to ascertain its purpose. For those who have doubts concerning my analysis — and I encourage you to —, feel free to download the decompiled APK from my MEGA account.

Analysis

First and foremost, I'd like to state that there are five characteristics of this code that made me think:

1. the code is obfuscated;


2. no permissions are ever declared inside the AndroidManifest.xml;


3. even if the code itself is obfuscated, there are strings which mention EGL, shaders and rendering;


4. a method in the code probes the device's graphic card;


5. this APK is not signed.

As for point 1, I often decompiled Google's apps, and they do like to obfuscate their code.

Point 2 greatly limits the potential nefarious actions an app can perform, as long as the app doesn't inherit its permissions by another app.

Points 3 and 4 seems to hint at a software which is devoted to draw on the display.

Point 5 is fascinating, as Android's package installer doesn't normally allow installing unsigned packages.

Guess

My guess is that this is a piece of software developed from Google, by Google. The APK is unsigned, but it might theoretically be installed by a system app, thus bypassing the signature restriction.