Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
144s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
20/02/2026, 08:55
General
- Target aethermind.exe
- Size 46KB
- Sample260220-kvwdcsf13e
- SHA256 5ca5f5b08fa96d4724776bc3bdbf555ce09c8e17083bceb944086139b92769f6
Malware Config
Extracted
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asyncrat
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0.5.8
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AetherMind
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farmer.sa.com:6606
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farmer.sa.com:7707
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farmer.sa.com:8808
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farmer.sa.com:8888
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farmer.sa.com:8848
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farmer.sa.com:443
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farmer.sa.com:4782
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AetherMind_AI_Mutex_v1107
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delay
3
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install
true
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install_file
aethermind.exe
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install_folder
%AppData%
Signatures
- AsyncRat
AsyncRAT is designed to remotely monitor and control other computers written in C#.
- Asyncrat family
- Async RAT payload 1 IoCs
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 7 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Delays execution with timeout.exe 1 IoCs
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 19 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\aethermind.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\aethermind.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c schtasks /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn "aethermind" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\aethermind.exe"' & exit2⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exeschtasks /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn "aethermind" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\aethermind.exe"'3⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpE8F8.tmp.bat""2⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\timeout.exetimeout 33⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Delays execution with timeout.exe
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\aethermind.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\aethermind.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\aethermind.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\aethermind.exe"1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
aethermind.exe.log
tmpE8F8.tmp.bat
aethermind.exe
memory/2096-17-0x00000000028F0000-0x00000000028FB000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-16-0x0000000004F20000-0x000000000506D000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-18-0x0000000005070000-0x0000000005076000-memory.dmp
memory/2540-14-0x0000000004DD0000-0x0000000004F1D000-memory.dmp
memory/2540-15-0x0000000002780000-0x000000000278B000-memory.dmp
memory/3456-8-0x00000000059C0000-0x00000000059C6000-memory.dmp
memory/3456-0-0x0000000000FD0000-0x0000000000FE2000-memory.dmp
memory/3456-7-0x0000000005860000-0x00000000059AD000-memory.dmp
memory/3456-2-0x0000000005A70000-0x0000000005B0C000-memory.dmp
memory/3456-1-0x0000000005A60000-0x0000000005A70000-memory.dmp