TrickMo
Intelligence Profile
TrickMo is an advanced banking trojan for Android. Starting out as a companion malware to TrickBot in 2020, it first became a standalone banking trojan by addition of overlay attacks in 2021 and was later (2024) upgraded with remote control capabilities for on-device fraud. The continued development and progressively improved obfuscation suggests an active Threat Actor.
Threat Analysis
TrickMo 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 TrickMo 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, TrickMo is capable of targeted intrusions using adapted commodity tools alongside custom implants, maintaining operational security and evading standard detection mechanisms.