930bc90c9b6cc5185237a024…

sample

Tracked by C2 Tracker · indicators & metadata only, the APK itself is never published

Analyst notes

Metasploit. Android payloads generated by Metasploit / msfvenom (meterpreter and command stages), running under the package com.metasploit.stage. The payload dials back to LHOST:LPORT, which is the C2. Two config formats appear in the wild. In the older/plain format the transport URL (tcp://, ssl:// or https://LHOST:LPORT) is a const-string in the DEX. In the newer format the stage carries a protobuf TransportConfig in the static byte array Payload.a, parsed by an embedded protobuf-lite runtime (com.metasploit.a); that array is XOR-masked with a per-build 4-byte key, and because the buffer is zero-padded the leading bytes leak the key, so XORing the array by key[i mod 4] recovers the protobuf and its transport URL. Many samples are red-team or test builds pointing at LAN, loopback or 0.0.0.0 addresses (recorded verbatim); live ones use public IPs or tunnel fronts such as *.lhr.life (localhost.run) and *.loca.lt (localtunnel). Indicators: tcp://192.168.123.151:10086.

Recovered configuration

package

com.example.helloandroid

Identification

SHA-256: 930bc90c9b6cc5185237a024943e36bbe749461d50f4f3e2348482e27fd819c6
MD5: c0addc03956cc74d14bb040a520ddab8

Observed

Families: Metasploit
First seen: 2026-09-25

C2 configuration (1)

Every indicator extracted from this sample. One row per C2 - each links to its indicator page with Whois, DNS and certificate pivots.

Indicator	Type	Port	Scheme	Family	First seen
192.168.123.151	ip	10086	tcp	Metasploit	2026-09-25

Signing certificate

Subject CN: Android Debug
Issuer CN: Android Debug
Fingerprint: f4c5245ee7a194112441c5ffdab5b377606f203bf49b6428368ae4c9e62d3400

Relationships

Sample → C2 indicators, signing certificate (with every other sample signed by it) and family. Click a node for details, double-click to open its page.

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About Metasploit

Android payloads generated by Metasploit / msfvenom (meterpreter and command stages), running under the package com.metasploit.stage. The payload dials back to LHOST:LPORT, which is the C2. Two config formats appear in the wild. In the older/plain format the transport URL (tcp://, ssl:// or https://LHOST:LPORT) is a const-string in the DEX. In the newer format the stage carries a protobuf TransportConfig in the static byte array Payload.a, parsed by an embedded protobuf-lite runtime (com.metasploit.a); that array is XOR-masked with a per-build 4-byte key, and because the buffer is zero-padded the leading bytes leak the key, so XORing the array by key[i mod 4] recovers the protobuf and its transport URL. Many samples are red-team or test builds pointing at LAN, loopback or 0.0.0.0 addresses (recorded verbatim); live ones use public IPs or tunnel fronts such as *.lhr.life (localhost.run) and *.loca.lt (localtunnel).