Something's automatically sending "stuff" from my phone Today I was on my computer and I had my phone (Samsung Galaxy S2 X) sitting beside me. All of a sudden the screen on the phone came on and instead of it showing the lock screen, it went directly to the home screen and a little message appeared at the bottom saying "Sending...". This happened a couple more times and then stopped.

I have ran both a AVG and avast! virus scan of my phone and both came up empty.

I'm wondering if I should be worried if something like this happened or is it something else? What I don't understand is how it just went straight to the home screen without having to unlock it. There's nothing in my text messages or emails to suggest it was being used for spamming. My guess is that it was just an app sending usage statistics or something? Any ideas?
If that is a malware, it will take care to leave no tracks (i.e. deleting the sent message).

Two things you should do ASAP:


Contact your provider and check what messages where sent. Especially expensive "Premium" messages. It could be something sends "just spam", but it also could be some "money generator".
Check with a permission checker what apps have the permission to...


send SMS/MMS
deactivate your lockscreen (aka keyguard)



If you find an app that has both permissions, that's a very likely candidate. A good app to check this is e.g. RL Permissions, which lets you check by app and by permission:

 
RL Permissions: Apps by permissions / Permissions by app (source: Google Play; click images for large variants)

As RL Permissions has not been updated for more than 2 years, an alternative to this is Permission Explorer, which offers similar features:

 
Permission Explorer: Apps by permissions / Permissions by app (source: Google Play; click images for large variants)

Once you've identified a suspicious app, deactivate or uninstall it. Watch if the described behaviour continues. If it does not, you've got the culprit.

One more lesson learned: Just having some AntiVirus on your device doesn't mean you're safe and don't need to care. Those "checkers" mostly compare with a database of known malware. Unlike their PC companions, they don't do heuristic scans.