Chrysaor is the Android variant of the Pegasus surveillanceware. Having an Android variant of this complex surveillanceware shows that its creator, NSO Group. has sophisticated mobile spyware capabilities across a number of operating systems that are actively being used to target individuals.

Pegasus for Android does not require zero-day vulnerabilities to root the target device and install the malware. Instead, the threat uses an otherwise well-known rooting technique called Framaroot.