Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
154s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
24/04/2026, 13:12
General
- Target AsyncClient_climaxmx_com_CX4RUtGh.exe
- Size 45KB
- Sample260424-qff8saaz4x
- SHA256 04fb8cb084ef41d7d0cc5316499b54a64ac2a09409efe7ebbd5543616a0447d2
Malware Config
Extracted
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asyncrat
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0.5.8
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Default
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climaxmx.com:443
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www.climaxmx.com:443
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UjK8tjxGIZy3
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delay
0
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install
true
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install_file
AsyncClient.exe
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install_folder
%AppData%
Signatures
- Family: AsyncRat
AsyncRAT is designed to remotely monitor and control other computers written in C#.
- 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\AsyncClient_climaxmx_com_CX4RUtGh.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AsyncClient_climaxmx_com_CX4RUtGh.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 "AsyncClient" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\AsyncClient.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 "AsyncClient" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\AsyncClient.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\tmpD801.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\AsyncClient.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\AsyncClient.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\AsyncClient.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\AsyncClient.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
tmpD801.tmp.bat
AsyncClient.exe
memory/1272-11-0x00000000015E0000-0x000000000162A000-memory.dmp
memory/2008-0-0x00000000009E0000-0x00000000009F2000-memory.dmp
memory/2008-1-0x00000000054D0000-0x00000000054E0000-memory.dmp
memory/2008-2-0x00000000054E0000-0x000000000557C000-memory.dmp
memory/2008-7-0x0000000002ED0000-0x0000000002ED6000-memory.dmp
memory/4672-14-0x0000000002590000-0x0000000002596000-memory.dmp