In the past few weeks, the Avast Mobile Security analysts have been focusing on Android malware which targets users in Russia and Eastern Europe. One of the families that caught our interest was the Xbot malware.
The name Xbot comes from the sample itself as the string Xbot was found in all variants of this malware. Xbot uses a variety of names and package names but this string was, with different levels of obfuscation, in every single file we analyzed so we decided to name the malware after it.
more here.......https://blog.avast.com/2015/02/17/angry-android-hacker-hides-xbot-malware-in-popular-application-icons/
The name Xbot comes from the sample itself as the string Xbot was found in all variants of this malware. Xbot uses a variety of names and package names but this string was, with different levels of obfuscation, in every single file we analyzed so we decided to name the malware after it.
more here.......https://blog.avast.com/2015/02/17/angry-android-hacker-hides-xbot-malware-in-popular-application-icons/