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Alien

aka AlienBot

According to ThreatFabric, this is a fork of Cerberus v1 (active January 2020+).

Alien, also known as AlienBot, is a Android malware family.

Background

ThreatFabric assesses Alien as a fork of Cerberus v1, in circulation since at least January 2020. Offered on a rental basis, this banking trojan can take remote control of a device and gains its RAT capabilities by abusing TeamViewer.

Source: Malpedia (Fraunhofer FKIE).