Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
148s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
07/03/2026, 18:06
General
- Target Spotify.exe
- Size 45KB
- Sample260307-wpw89aay21
- SHA256 9c970c29df4fb1398940809e6e7a9bc5088eaca54eed4cdd878c06fd0ed030b2
Malware Config
Extracted
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asyncrat
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0.5.8
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Default
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www.webcottages.co.uk:80
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malware.webcottages.co.uk:80
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fhtrbleYfAeC
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delay
3
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install
true
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install_file
Spotify.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
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- 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 23 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Spotify.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Spotify.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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 "Spotify" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Spotify.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 "Spotify" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Spotify.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\tmpF647.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\Spotify.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Spotify.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Spotify.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Spotify.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
Spotify.exe.log
tmpF647.tmp.bat
Spotify.exe
memory/1660-0-0x0000000000B00000-0x0000000000B12000-memory.dmp
memory/1660-1-0x00000000054F0000-0x0000000005500000-memory.dmp
memory/1660-2-0x0000000005500000-0x000000000559C000-memory.dmp
memory/1660-7-0x0000000002EE0000-0x0000000002EE6000-memory.dmp
memory/1660-8-0x00000000058E0000-0x000000000595E000-memory.dmp
memory/1836-15-0x0000000005330000-0x000000000533A000-memory.dmp
memory/1836-16-0x0000000005360000-0x0000000005366000-memory.dmp
memory/4820-14-0x0000000002880000-0x000000000288A000-memory.dmp