Fakecalls
Intelligence Profile
According to Kaspersky, Fakecalls is a Trojan that masquerades as a banking app and imitates phone conversations with bank employees.
Threat Analysis
Fakecalls is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.
Financially motivated threat actors like Fakecalls prioritize monetary gain through methods such as ransomware deployment, banking trojans, cryptocurrency theft, BEC scams, or credential harvesting for resale on underground markets.
With high sophistication, Fakecalls is capable of targeted intrusions using adapted commodity tools alongside custom implants, maintaining operational security and evading standard detection mechanisms.