To avoid early detection or being denied access to the Play Store these malicious dropper apps are distributed before the malware is placed on the remote server. One of these payloads was the banking Trojan Xenomorph. In reality this application was a Trojan dropperwhich contacted a remote server and downloaded one of several payloads based on certain parameters. The researchers found the dropper for the Xenomorph banking Trojan on the Google Play Store under the name Fast Cleaner, pretending to be an application aimed at speeding up the device by removing unused clutter and removing battery optimization blocks. The researchers dubbed this malware Xenomorph because it shows similarities to another banking Trojan that is generally known as Alien. Researchersfound this banking Trojan to be distributed on the official Google Play Store, with more than 50,000 installations. Besides the name of the creature that “stars” in the Alien movies by 20 thCentury Fox, Xenomorph is also the name given to an Android banking Trojan.
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