Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    133s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20260130-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20260130-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    05/02/2026, 16:19

General

  • Target
    53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728.exe
  • Size 5.4MB
  • Sample260205-tspbpsdw2g
  • SHA256 53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • quasar

Version
  • 1.4.1

Botnet
  • SPAIN2

C2
  • twart.myfirewall.org:9792

  • rency.ydns.eu:5287

  • wqo9.firewall-gateway.de:8841

  • code1.ydns.eu:5287

  • wqo9.firewall-gateway.de:9792

Mutex
  • Q4e9mb0d-11cb-44R6b-T1b-05f80M1dcIfx051

Attributes
  • encryption_key

    3145298725BA5E0DD56E87FFE3F8898EA81E6EDA

  • install_name

    Notepadbook.exe

  • key_salt

    bfeb1e56fbcd973bb219022430a57843003d5644d21e62b9d4f180e7e6c33941

  • log_directory

    Logs

  • reconnect_delay

    6000

  • startup_key

    Adobe PDF

  • subdirectory

    WindowsMD

Signatures

  • Quasar RAT

    Quasar is an open source Remote Access Tool.

  • Quasar family
  • Quasar payload 1 IoCs
  • .NET Reactor proctector 64 IoCs

    Detects an executable protected by an unregistered version of Eziriz's .NET Reactor.

  • Executes dropped EXE 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 3 IoCs
  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 8 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 10 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 28 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1592
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728.exe"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:888
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
        "schtasks" /create /tn "Adobe PDF" /sc ONLOGON /tr "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe" /rl HIGHEST /f
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
        PID:488
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2112
        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe"
          4⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:1716
          • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
            "schtasks" /create /tn "Adobe PDF" /sc ONLOGON /tr "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe" /rl HIGHEST /f
            5⤵
            • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
            • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
            PID:1724
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4616
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:1732
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:3348
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3352

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728.exe.log
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 954f692df2fb645ad94c0d8a397f8a6776f13bd16d7a4974138fd0f0cb2895f3
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        Notepadbook.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WindowsMD\Notepadbook.exe
        • Size 5.4MB
        • SHA256 53aefcb31cf737d2af9779bea562b358bb08c876bb68fbe5614c1084decb6728
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

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        memory/1592-60-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-51-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-2-0x00000000053E0000-0x0000000005472000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-3-0x0000000005520000-0x00000000055BC000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-4-0x0000000005770000-0x0000000005780000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-5-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005610000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-15-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-45-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-131-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-129-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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        memory/1592-125-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-121-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-119-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-117-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-115-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-113-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-111-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-107-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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        memory/1592-95-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-93-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-89-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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        memory/1592-65-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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        memory/1592-0-0x00000000003E0000-0x0000000000942000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-55-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-1-0x00000000058B0000-0x0000000005E56000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-53-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-75-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-48-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-44-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-39-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-37-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-35-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-33-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-123-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-109-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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        memory/1592-25-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-23-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-72-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-21-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-19-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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        memory/1592-17-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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        memory/1592-11-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-31-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-29-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-9-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-27-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-7-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

        memory/1592-6-0x00000000055C0000-0x0000000005629000-memory.dmp

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