The source code of the Exobot Android banking trojan has been leaked online

The source code of the Exobot Android banking trojan has been leaked online, researchers already verified its authenticity.

The source code of the Exobot Android banking trojan has been leaked online and experts believe that we will soon assist at a new wave of attacks based on the malware.

The Exobot Android banking trojan was first spotted at the end of 2016 when its authors were advertising it on the dark web.

The authors were advertising it saying that it can be used for phishing attacks, it implements various features of most common banking Trojan such as intercepting SMS messages.

Exobot is a powerful banking malware that is able of infecting even smartphones running the latest Android versions.

In January, the authors decided to stop working at the malware and offered for sale its source code.

Now researchers from Bleeping Computer confirmed to have received a copy of the source code from an unknown individual and shared it with malware researchers from ESET and ThreatFabric in order to verify its authenticity.

“The code proved to be version 2.5 of the Exobot banking trojan, also known as the “Trump Edition,” one of Exobot’s last version before its original author gave up on its development.” reads a blog post published by Bleeping Computer.

According to experts from ThreatFabric the version provided to Bleeping Computer was leaked online in May. It seems that one of the users that purchased the malicious code decided to leak it online.

According to the experts, the source code for the Exobot Android banking Trojan is now being distributed on a few underground hacking forums, this means that threat actors can now work on their own version and also offer it with a malware-as-a-service model.

“In the coming months, we may see Android malware devs slowly migrating their campaigns from BankBot to Exobot, as few will decline a “free upgrade” to a better code.” concluded Bleeping Computers.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(Securi ty Affairs – Android, banking Trojan)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.