MysteryBot; a new Android banking Trojan ready for Android 7
and 8
Published: 2024-10-01 · Archived: 2026-04-05 17:31:25 UTC
Intro
While processing our daily set of suspicious samples, our detection rule for the Android banking trojan LokiBot
matched a sample that seemed quite different than LokiBot itself, urging us to take a closer look at it. Looking at
the bot commands, we first thought that LokiBot had been improved. However, we quickly realized that there is
more going on: the name of the bot and the name of the panel changed to “MysteryBot”, even the network
communication changed.
During investigation of its network activity we found out that MysteryBot and LokiBot Android banker are both
running on the same C&C server. This quickly brought us to an early conclusion that this newly discovered
Malware is either an update to Lokibot, either another banking trojan developed by the same actor.
To consolidate evidence, we searched some other sources and found more matches between samples of both
malware using the same C&C, as visible in following screenshot from Koodous:
Source: https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/mysterybot__a_new_android_banking_trojan_ready_for_android_7_and_8.html
https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/mysterybot__a_new_android_banking_trojan_ready_for_android_7_and_8.html
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