The Gigabud banking trojan now installs a second Android app that creates a work profile on an infected phone and drops a tampered banking app inside it, security firm Group-IB said in a report published on September 9.
A work profile is a separate space that Android typically reserves for employer apps, and what’s inside it is kept separate from everything in the personal space. That split hides the trojan from the banking app’s own malware checks, Group-IB said, so a fraudulent payment can look unrelated to the alert already raised on the phone. It has confirmed the full chain on infected devices in Indonesia.
Android’s platform documentation says any app in the phone’s main profile can start the setup for a work profile, and that the user is told what a work profile does before one is created.
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