NFCShare Android Trojan Hides in GitHub, Breaks APK Extractors
Italy – October 19, 2026 -- A newer wave of the NFCShare Android banking trojan, active since 14 May 2026, ships APKs with malformed ZIP paths that can break automated extraction tools, D3 Labs researchers reported.
Campaign shifts from Deutsche Bank lure to Italian and European brands
NFCShare first spread as a malicious APK through a phishing flow impersonating Deutsche Bank. The newer wave impersonates Italian and European banking brands and originates from a phishing site mimicking Intesa Sanpaolo. The malware shows a fake card-verification screen, asks victims to hold a payment card near the phone, collects the card PIN and sends NFC-derived card data to a WebSocket endpoint.
Core NFC logic unchanged, operations hardened
D3 Labs found the NFC and exfiltration logic largely unchanged. The changes are operational: more frequent APK rebuilds, brand rotation, URL shorteners, a new C2 endpoint and a 10-DEX layout.