PushAction SMS Stealer (provisional)

Malware family · 35 sample(s) · 35 indicator record(s) · 23 signing certificate(s) · Active 2022-11-15 → 2025-03-15 (experimental)

About PushAction SMS Stealer (provisional)

Long-running SMS-stealer group that ships DCloud / uni-app hybrid Android apps (main activity io.dcloud.PandoraEntry) disguised as e-commerce, delivery, grocery and services lures, first documented against Malaysian users by Fareed Fauzi (Dec 2022). A static SmsReceiver intercepts incoming SMS and calls abortBroadcast(); the message body, sender, Android device id and timestamp are HTTP-POSTed to the operator server, and entered banking credentials go to a separate phishing kit. The C2 base rotates across many disposable domains (mall-base-app.com, ecomall-app-ag1.info, pos-express-node.com, post-yundeck.top, zero-dustapps.com, towncenter-appsv4-0001.info, maids-app.info, productapps1011.win, hungryduit.online, …) but the exfil API path is the stable fingerprint: https://<host>/app/(api/)action/<name>PushAction/ (defaultSmsPushAction, smsMessagePushAction, smsPermissionPushAction, deviceActivePushAction). C2 hosts are taken from those endpoints, not from a single hardcoded config string. Provisional bucket pending formal attribution.

Indicators

IndicatorTypeSampleFirst seen
api.pos-express-node.com domain 9a6d414cd9a3… 2024-04-12
api.pos-express-node.com domain b54974fc5f87… 2024-07-12
api.pos-express-node.com domain aa94ce651252… 2023-12-10
api.pos-express-node.com domain c8d3a2e3f6ef… 2024-06-07
api.post-yundeck.top domain 62c6b65fabcf… 2024-12-04
api.post-yundeck.top domain d4b1f0b9dd95… 2025-03-15
c2.zero-dustapps.com domain 6ea6ed41d622… 2023-06-26
c2.zero-dustapps.com domain 810b2aa3f95f… 2023-06-29
c2.zero-dustapps.com domain b2d0efb131b1… 2023-06-18
dyn8319-dark0q.productapps1011.win domain bbf82f7d31de… 2023-02-05
fitnesssuck.hungryduit.online domain bb22a4684845… 2023-01-08
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 2a406ff7983d… 2022-11-27
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 36f09582434c… 2022-12-11
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 633655483e23… 2022-12-25
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 6d0c359cbadd… 2022-12-11
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 74d59c0eaa55… 2022-11-15
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain aa16d37a2d19… 2022-12-06
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 513a514d553b… 2022-12-11
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 7e77a9ed50fb… 2022-12-14
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 8b49fe8fb684… 2022-11-27
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 9a961af2cd63… 2022-12-11
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain 9cd4d6872d8d… 2022-12-25
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain a94809f0654c… 2022-12-31
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain e117bb9f52e7… 2022-12-14
sg1.mall-base-app.com domain ed7eb9ccbda0… 2022-12-25
sg3.mall-base-app.com domain 8a20f9b697f9… 2023-01-05
sg3.mall-base-app.com domain a86a15ae1926… 2022-12-31
v4ag1api.ecomall-app-ag1.info domain c59e18e8657a… 2023-07-03
v4ag1api.ecomall-app-ag1.info domain cb2b6e2be2de… 2023-04-17
v4ag1api.ecomall-app-ag1.info domain d54043ddcb41… 2023-12-01
v4ag1api.ecomall-app-ag1.info domain 779f775b2a7a… 2023-12-13
v4ag1api.ecomall-app-ag1.info domain ca659b54ae22… 2023-11-13
v4api.maids-app.info domain 852e72c41599… 2023-05-02
v4api.towncenter-appsv4-0001.info domain 6c0593ec2b12… 2023-05-24
v4api.towncenter-appsv4-0001.info domain c60714e1a405… 2023-03-20