BusyGasper is an Android surveillance malware family with spyware characteristics focused on collecting user data and abusing device messaging functions. Documented capabilities include harvesting SMS messages, collecting images stored on the device, retrieving browser history, recording from the device camera, and capturing user input by monitoring screen taps and translating coordinate patterns into characters, providing a form of keylogging or input capture. It also supports SMS-based actions such as sending messages after device boot, transmitting log data or attacker-defined content to specified recipients, and deleting SMS messages from the device. These behaviors indicate a combination of surveillance, data theft, and defense-evasion through message removal. BusyGasper is associated with mobile post-compromise collection and monitoring activity against Android devices.
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1 distinct technique documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
Anubis can exfiltrate files encrypted with the ransomware module from the device and can modify external storage. BusyGasper can collect images stored on the device and browser history. CHEMISTGAMES can collect files from the filesystem and account information from Google Chrome.
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Mobile New Software: BusyGasper
Android malware that can record from the device camera.
Android spyware capable of sending SMS messages with logs or attacker-defined content and deleting all SMS messages on the device.
Mobile spyware that captures screen taps and translates them into typed characters for input capture.
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