A campaign is using an Android banking trojan called Anatsa to steal your banking credentials and drain your account.
) saw indications of a new campaign this past March. An app listed in the Google Play Store, holding itself out as a PDF reader, would download the payload once it was installed. The payload, loaded from GitHub, was disguised as an add-on to the original app.
Once the app was reported to Google, it was removed from the Play Store. But a month later, the attackers added another app to the Play Store, this time a PDF viewer app, and once again a payload was downloaded to the app disguised as an add-on.And once again, the dropper app was reported to Google and removed from the Play Store. Three more droppers were discovered in the Play Store last month and this month.
According to ThreatFabric,"Our analysis also reveals that the actors can have several apps published in the store at the same time under different developer accounts, however, only one is acting as malicious, while the other is a backup to be used after takedown. Such a tactic helps actors to maintain very long campaigns, minimizing the time needed to publish another dropper and continue the distribution campaign.
Once a device is infected, the trojan can collect sensitive information including credentials, credit card details, balance, and payment information. This data is used by the attackers to create transactions using the victim's bank account. Since these transactions use the same devices that the targeted bank customers usually use, it is hard for anti-fraud systems to spot illegal transactions.
The latest Anatsa droppers include these five apps that were, at one time, available from the Google Play Store. The titles are:PDF Reader & Editor-com.proderstarler.pdfsignatureAll Document Reader and Viewer-com.muchlensoka.pdfcreatorEven if they have been kicked out of the Play Store, should they still be installed on your phone, they can do damage. And remember, these are banking trojans that are looking to drain your bank accounts.
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