General
- Target a0876d4cde77a0378cbf1ce15d188abf397b33e6d836bd5f799c798d311e2906.apk
- Size 3.3MB
- Sample260817-jxctcsac43
- SHA256 a0876d4cde77a0378cbf1ce15d188abf397b33e6d836bd5f799c798d311e2906
- MD5 faece6df07cccc010c8a2eaaca541bab
- SHA1 f9f22b1404b8088835371666493fa3f0db2ef71a
- SHA512 84a11fb311bee827104b09ba6f1ff3433f0fc34a5c24cc363e90c8ccd75f024ae885a2902f7c741a5c3049e9b61acd304218e6ff97d5c1d61c4191f643524980
- SSDEEP 98304:98vL6E8gsu3FIVLZC9RzzrheGseo/REQJqtFAt:98T6EvseFIJGRVeGfRSt
- TLSH T1B3F53345EFC34508D9278332811B9673365CA5EA81AE7C3F097480D629DFBD44B2EDEA
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
a0876d4cde77a0378cbf1ce15d188abf397b33e6d836bd5f799c798d311e2906.apk
Resource
android-x86-arm-20260325-en
Behavioral task
behavioral2
Sample
a0876d4cde77a0378cbf1ce15d188abf397b33e6d836bd5f799c798d311e2906.apk
Resource
android-x64-20260325-en
Behavioral task
behavioral3
Sample
a0876d4cde77a0378cbf1ce15d188abf397b33e6d836bd5f799c798d311e2906.apk
Resource
android-x64-arm64-20260325-en
Malware Config
Extracted
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alienbot
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http://34.89.218.199
Extracted
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alienbot
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http://34.89.218.199
Targets
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- Target a0876d4cde77a0378cbf1ce15d188abf397b33e6d836bd5f799c798d311e2906.apk
- Size 3.3MB
- SHA256 a0876d4cde77a0378cbf1ce15d188abf397b33e6d836bd5f799c798d311e2906
- MD5 faece6df07cccc010c8a2eaaca541bab
- SHA1 f9f22b1404b8088835371666493fa3f0db2ef71a
- SHA512 84a11fb311bee827104b09ba6f1ff3433f0fc34a5c24cc363e90c8ccd75f024ae885a2902f7c741a5c3049e9b61acd304218e6ff97d5c1d61c4191f643524980
- SSDEEP 98304:98vL6E8gsu3FIVLZC9RzzrheGseo/REQJqtFAt:98T6EvseFIJGRVeGfRSt
- TLSH T1B3F53345EFC34508D9278332811B9673365CA5EA81AE7C3F097480D629DFBD44B2EDEA
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
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Cerberus payload
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Family: Alienbot
Alienbot is a fork of Cerberus banker first seen in January 2020.
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Contact harvesting with SMS self-propagation
Reads the device contact list and sends messages to the retrieved numbers, the distribution mechanism behind SMS worm campaigns. The victim's own address book becomes the delivery channel, which is why these campaigns spread rapidly within a region.
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Covert microphone or camera capture with exfiltration
Opens audio or camera capture outside any user-facing recording feature and pairs it with file staging and network transmission. The absence of a foreground recording interface alongside these primitives indicates surveillance rather than a legitimate media function.
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Encrypted or packed staged payload inside Android package
Extracted asset shows near-random entropy without a recognised container header, indicating an encrypted secondary payload staged for runtime decryption and loading. Correlate with any runtime class-loading detection on the same sample.
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Notification listener abuse for OTP and message theft
Binds a notification listener service and reads posted notification content, optionally dismissing notifications afterwards to hide them. This harvests one-time passcodes and private messages without ever requesting SMS permissions, which is why it has largely replaced SMS interception in modern ban
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Checks Android system properties for emulator presence.
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Makes use of the framework's Accessibility service
Retrieves information displayed on the phone screen using AccessibilityService.
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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.
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Queries the phone number (MSISDN for GSM devices)
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Acquires the wake lock
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Makes use of the framework's foreground persistence service
Application may abuse the framework's foreground service to continue running in the foreground.
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Performs UI accessibility actions on behalf of the user
Application may abuse the accessibility service to prevent their removal.
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Queries the mobile country code (MCC)
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Requests disabling of battery optimizations (often used to enable hiding in the background).
MITRE ATT&CK Mobile v16
Persistence
Event Triggered Execution
1Broadcast Receivers
1Foreground Persistence
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Defense Evasion
Download New Code at Runtime
1Foreground Persistence
1Hide Artifacts
2Suppress Application Icon
1User Evasion
1Impair Defenses
1Prevent Application Removal
1Input Injection
1Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion
3System Checks
3