A new Android Banking Trojan found on Google play with more than 10,000 installs steals user’s banking credentials and also capable of by bypassing SMS for two-factor authentication.
Security researcher Lukas Stefanko discovered the trojan in the Google play pretended to be QRecorder app that records phone calls.
Once the app launched it requests the user to provide Draw over other apps permission to make the app functioning properly, but the malware abuses it to take control on what to be displayed on the user screen.
By having the overlay permission, the malicious app can draw an overlay at the top of the legitimate application to steal sensitive information from the user.
Threat actors used Firebase messages to communicate with the infected devices, they pass commands to check whether the targeted app installed on the device or not.
According to Stefanko analysis if the targeted baking is installed it requests the user to activate accessibility service and by having this permission it automatically downloads, installs and open the payload without user consent.
Stefanko published a Video on how it abuses the accessibility services and overlays banking app.
Once the app installed it triggers the targeted apps and overlay legitimate app and ask for login credentials. The threat actors primarily targeted German, Polish and Czech banks. here is the list of banking apps targeted.
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