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Moskow Droid Development

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Retrieved: 2026-05-09T11:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

Adversaries may be using custom development tools or techniques to evade detection, indicating potential advanced persistent threat activity. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify and mitigate sophisticated, long-term threats that may not trigger traditional detection rules.

YARA Rule

rule moscow_fake : banker androoid
{
	meta:
	  author = "Fernando Denis"
		reference = "https://koodous.com/ https://twitter.com/fdrg21"
		description = "Moskow Droid Development"
		thread_level = 3
		in_the_wild = true

	strings:
		$string_a = "%ioperator%"
		$string_b = "%imodel%"
		$string_c = "%ideviceid%"
		$string_d = "%ipackname%"
		$string_e = "VILLLLLL"

	condition:
		all of ($string_*)
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

This rule contains 5 string patterns in its detection logic.

References

False Positive Guidance

Original source: https://github.com/Yara-Rules/rules/blob/main/deprecated/Android/Android_malware_Fake_MosKow.yar