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ThreatFabric specialists gesprochen about the Octo banking android Trojan, recently discovered in the Google Play Store. The malware that steals data from banking and other financial applications is called Octo and has been installed more than 50,000 Die Malware gibt sich als Craftsart Cartoon Photo Tools-App aus und wurde überinstalliert.

The researchers say that Octo is a modification of another malware for Android, ExobotCompact, welche, in turn, is alightversion of the well-known Exobot Malware, whose source code became public in 2018. Experts say that the threat is also related to the Coper Malware, welche wurde entdeckt in 2021 and attacked users from Colombia, as well as European countries.

As with other banking trojans for Android, Octo hides in dropper apps whose main purpose is to deploy the payload embedded in them. A list of such applications used by several attackers to distribute Octo and Coper is given below:

  1. Pocket Screencaster (com.moh.screen)
  2. Schneller Reiniger 2021 (vizeeva.fast.cleaner)
  3. Spielladen (com.restthe71)
  4. Postbank Security (com.carbuildz)
  5. Pocket Screencaster (com.cutthousandjs)
  6. BAWAG PSK Security (com.frontwonder2), und
  7. Play Store app install (com.theseeye5).

These apps, posing as Play Store app installers, screen recorders, and financial tools, are distributed through both the official Google Play store and scam sites that warn users to urgently download a fake browser update.

Banking-Android-Trojaner Octo

Einmal installiert, droppers are used as a conduit to launch Trojans, but not before asking users to turn on Accessibility Services.

As an interesting feature of Octo, experts call the use of the Android MediaProjection API, with the help of which attackers gain remote control over infected devices and can capture the content of the screen in real time. Gleichzeitig, the ultimate goal of hackers is “automatic initiation of fraudulent transactions and their authorization without the “manual” participation of the operator”, which allows criminals to carry out attacks on a large scale.

Banking-Android-Trojaner Octo

Other notable features of Octo include intercepting keystrokes, overlaying banking applications (to capture credentials), collecting contact information, and malware’s ability to bypass antivirus engines.

The rebranding of Octo permanently erases the old links with the leaked Exobot source code, attracting a lot of new attackers who are looking for an opportunity to rent a supposedly new and original Trojan. Octo’s capabilities are dangerous not only for those applications that are targeted by overlay attacks, but for any other applications installed on the infected device. The fact is that ExobotCompact/Octo can read the contents of any application displayed on the screen, as well as provide an attacker with sufficient information to remotely interact with it and carry out on-device attacks.ThreatFabric Experten sagen.

Octo is currently being sold on hack forums, including XSS, by an attacker using the nicknames Architect und goodluck. It is noted that although most XSS messages are written in Russian, almost all communication between the Octo developer and potential customers is in English.

Due to the malware’s strong resemblance to ExoCompact, ThreatFabric assumes that Architect is the original author or the new owner of the ExoCompact source code.

Ich möchte Sie daran erinnern, dass wir auch darüber gesprochen haben Banking-Trojaner Chaes Installs Malicious Chrome Extensions, und auch das Anubis Android Banker Targets Nearly 400 Benutzer der Finanz-App.

Helga Smith

Ich habe mich schon immer für Informatik interessiert, insbesondere Datensicherheit und das Thema, das heißt heute "Datenwissenschaft", seit meiner frühen Jugend. Bevor Sie als Chefredakteur in das Virus Removal Team eintreten, Ich habe als Cybersecurity-Experte in mehreren Unternehmen gearbeitet, einschließlich eines der Vertragspartner von Amazon. Eine andere Erfahrung: Ich habe Lehraufträge an den Universitäten Arden und Reading.

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