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Avast recently reported that SMSFactory Android Trojan has affected around 165,000 users worldwide.1 But so far, only a few digital properties have been publicized as indicators of compromise (IoCs).2

If you don’t want to lose as much as US$336 a year to cybercriminals, our detailed threat research materials may be able to help.

Our deep dive into the threat revealed that:

  • The threat actors behind SMSFactory Android Trojan typically used newly registered domains (NRDs).
  • The domain IoCs resolved to three unique seemingly dedicated IP addresses.
  • Close to 200 domains shared the IoCs’ IP addresses, three of which have been dubbed “malicious.”
  • Almost half of the possibly connected domains hosted the same content as the three malicious web properties identified.
  • Nearly 1,200 domains shared common strings with the IoCs, four of which are already considered malicious.

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  • [1] https://blog.avast.com/smsfactory-android-trojan
  • [2] https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/629c7c22660f94c3764f9e6a
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