During routine monitoring performed through D3Lab’s Brand Monitor service, our team detected a newly registered domain impersonating a well-known Italian banking brand. The domain was designed to look like a promotional landing page and promised users a financial reward for downloading a mobile application. At first glance, this looked like a classic brand abuse case. A closer analysis revealed something more serious: the landing page was part of a malware delivery chain distributing a malicious Android APK.

The affected brand, as well as its customers, should be considered victims of this campaign. The fraudulent infrastructure abuses the bank’s identity to gain trust, while the malicious application targets users who are convinced to install software outside official app stores. This is not a legitimate promotion, not a banking initiative, and not an official application distribution channel.

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