Uncovering a Global Android Carrier Billing Fraud Campaign
A sophisticated Android malware campaign has been identified conducting carrier billing fraud through premium SMS abuse across Malaysia, Thailand, Romania, and Croatia. The operation comprises nearly 250 malicious applications that selectively target users based on their mobile operators, silently subscribing victims to premium services without consent. The malware demonstrates advanced capabilities including precise regional targeting with hardcoded SIM operator validation, automated subscription workflows using WebView manipulation and JavaScript injection, OTP interception via abuse of Google's SMS Retriever API, and Telegram-based exfiltration of device metadata. The campaign impersonates popular applications including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto to lure victims. Active from March 2025 through January 2026, the operation employs three distinct variants with increasing levels of sophistication, utilizing distributed command and control infrastructure and systematic refer...
Indicators of Compromise
- domain: apkafa.com
- domain: modobomz.com
- domain: api.modobomco.com
- domain: apizep.mwmze.com
- domain: onesignal.mwmze.com
- domain: onesignalmdb.modobomz.com
Uncovering a Global Android Carrier Billing Fraud Campaign
Description
A sophisticated Android malware campaign has been identified conducting carrier billing fraud through premium SMS abuse across Malaysia, Thailand, Romania, and Croatia. The operation comprises nearly 250 malicious applications that selectively target users based on their mobile operators, silently subscribing victims to premium services without consent. The malware demonstrates advanced capabilities including precise regional targeting with hardcoded SIM operator validation, automated subscription workflows using WebView manipulation and JavaScript injection, OTP interception via abuse of Google's SMS Retriever API, and Telegram-based exfiltration of device metadata. The campaign impersonates popular applications including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto to lure victims. Active from March 2025 through January 2026, the operation employs three distinct variants with increasing levels of sophistication, utilizing distributed command and control infrastructure and systematic refer...
Technical Details
- Author
- AlienVault
- Tlp
- white
- References
- ["https://zimperium.com/blog/premium-deception-uncovering-a-global-android-carrier-billing-fraud-campaign"]
- Adversary
- null
- Pulse Id
- 6a0e37bba2c6b50f5bf38278
- Threat Score
- null
Indicators of Compromise
Domain
| Value | Description | Copy |
|---|---|---|
domainapkafa.com | — | |
domainmodobomz.com | — | |
domainapi.modobomco.com | — | |
domainapizep.mwmze.com | — | |
domainonesignal.mwmze.com | — | |
domainonesignalmdb.modobomz.com | — |
Threat ID: 6a0f3a01e1370fbb4820d0af
Added to database: 5/21/2026, 4:59:45 PM
Last updated: 5/21/2026, 5:00:05 PM
Views: 1
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