Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
151s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
24/04/2026, 03:30
General
- Target svchost.exe
- Size 28KB
- Sample260424-d2gp8ady3y
- SHA256 f58cf1c16908e2631d2d96805786b6824947557789aadb172664a2443a259169
Malware Config
Extracted
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limerat
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aes_key
113
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antivm
true
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c2_url
https://pastebin.com/raw/3MjjsyBA
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delay
3
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download_payload
false
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install
true
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install_name
svchost.exe
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main_folder
AppData
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pin_spread
true
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sub_folder
\
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usb_spread
true
Signatures
- Family: LimeRAT
Simple yet powerful RAT for Windows machines written in .NET.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Contacts third-party web service commonly abused for C2 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
Legitimate web (hosting) services can be abused by malware authors to host malware or C2s.
- Maps connected drives based on registry 3 TTPs 4 IoCs
Disk information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 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 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost.exe"1⤵
- Maps connected drives based on registry
- 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 LimeRAT-Admin /tr "'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe'"2⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Maps connected drives based on registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
svchost.exe.log
svchost.exe
memory/1048-0-0x0000000000060000-0x000000000006C000-memory.dmp
memory/1048-1-0x0000000005120000-0x00000000051BC000-memory.dmp
memory/1048-2-0x0000000005400000-0x0000000005466000-memory.dmp
memory/1048-3-0x0000000005FF0000-0x0000000006596000-memory.dmp
memory/1048-14-0x0000000001000000-0x00000000010DF000-memory.dmp
memory/1048-15-0x0000000004FC0000-0x0000000005024000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-16-0x0000000001A00000-0x0000000001ADF000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-17-0x0000000005AD0000-0x0000000005B34000-memory.dmp