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HilalRAT is a mobile remote access trojan for Android with surveillance-oriented data collection capabilities. It is documented retrieving victims’ contact lists and SMS messages from compromised devices, indicating use for monitoring personal communications and harvesting locally stored mobile data. The observed behavior aligns with Android spyware and RAT tradecraft that abuses device permissions to access sensitive user information and relay it to an operator. High-confidence reporting in the available material supports Android targeting and collection of contacts and text messages, but does not establish a specific delivery vector, threat actor attribution, or broader victimology with sufficient certainty.
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Remote access trojan capable of retrieving a device's contact list.
Remote access trojan capable of retrieving SMS messages from devices.
Remote access trojan that retrieves SMS messages from devices.
Remote access trojan capable of retrieving a device's contact list.
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