General

  • Target

    625652eaf23d00f2190df678ac60b47d_JaffaCakes118

  • Size

    1.6MB

  • Sample

    240521-g819zsbc68

  • MD5

    625652eaf23d00f2190df678ac60b47d

  • SHA1

    9a313b8327f7ecd566b7fd86436ae9b59e44d90a

  • SHA256

    bb56649ce7eb24c89682f85d18422cd45c349516f92b2e20d09246bef4942197

  • SHA512

    5600c3c84575c71b973ae7e61ee1dbacd9d35008be93e8a86da31b86286e655659dfb3ea802777af152f6e85f0e2eb237e2c3bda6691dc8e09d6c5c34d95b742

  • SSDEEP

    49152:PfAgmFEpAQrxwUjAiV2Zdm4olc2F+WfOMU:vmFEvx9AS2ZdmPzfOv

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

alienbot

C2

http://185.255.132.193

Targets

    • Target

      625652eaf23d00f2190df678ac60b47d_JaffaCakes118

    • Size

      1.6MB

    • MD5

      625652eaf23d00f2190df678ac60b47d

    • SHA1

      9a313b8327f7ecd566b7fd86436ae9b59e44d90a

    • SHA256

      bb56649ce7eb24c89682f85d18422cd45c349516f92b2e20d09246bef4942197

    • SHA512

      5600c3c84575c71b973ae7e61ee1dbacd9d35008be93e8a86da31b86286e655659dfb3ea802777af152f6e85f0e2eb237e2c3bda6691dc8e09d6c5c34d95b742

    • SSDEEP

      49152:PfAgmFEpAQrxwUjAiV2Zdm4olc2F+WfOMU:vmFEvx9AS2ZdmPzfOv

    • Alienbot

      Alienbot is a fork of Cerberus banker first seen in January 2020.

    • Cerberus

      An Android banker that is being rented to actors beginning in 2019.

    • Cerberus payload

    • Makes use of the framework's Accessibility service

      Retrieves information displayed on the phone screen using AccessibilityService.

    • Prevents application removal

      Application may abuse the framework's APIs to prevent removal.

    • Removes its main activity from the application launcher

    • Checks CPU information

      Checks CPU information which indicate if the system is an emulator.

    • Checks memory information

      Checks memory information which indicate if the system is an emulator.

    • Loads dropped Dex/Jar

      Runs executable file dropped to the device during analysis.

    • Queries account information for other applications stored on the device

      Application may abuse the framework's APIs to collect account information stored on the device.

    • Queries the mobile country code (MCC)

    • Queries the phone number (MSISDN for GSM devices)

    • Registers a broadcast receiver at runtime (usually for listening for system events)

    • Requests disabling of battery optimizations (often used to enable hiding in the background).

    • Schedules tasks to execute at a specified time

      Application may abuse the framework's APIs to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code.

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix

Tasks