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 Tool: FrozenCell
Names FrozenCell
Category Malware
Type Backdoor, Info stealer, Exfiltration
Description
(Lookout) FrozenCell masquerades as fake updates to chat applications like Facebook,
WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE, and LoveChat. We also detected it in apps targeted
toward specific Middle Eastern demographics. For example, the actors behind
FrozenCell used a spoofed app called Tawjihi 2016, which Jordanian or Palestinian
students would ordinarily use during their general secondary examination.
Once installed on a device FrozenCell is capable of:
• Recording calls
• Retrieving generic phone metadata (e.g., cell location, mobile country code, mobile
network code)
• Geolocating a device
• Extracting SMS messages
• Retrieving a victim's accounts
• Exfiltrating images
• Downloading and installing additional applications
• Searching for and exfiltrating pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, and xlsx file types
• Retrieving contacts
Information MITRE ATT&CK AlienVault OTX Last change to this tool card: 30 December 2022
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All groups using tool FrozenCell
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=55a7b2c6-82a3-4d18-82ce-082a5c8da2c2
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Changed Name Country Observed
APT groups
  Desert Falcons [Gaza] 2011-Oct 2023
1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=55a7b2c6-82a3-4d18-82ce-082a5c8da2c2
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=55a7b2c6-82a3-4d18-82ce-082a5c8da2c2
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