Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
151s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
27/04/2026, 02:07
General
- Target gatex.exe
- Size 45KB
- Sample260427-cj94dabs5w
- SHA256 41f6cc70e43c1ab08a85ced4ff99a86bd20b59cffec288251ae25f65025ca8dd
Malware Config
Extracted
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asyncrat
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0.5.8
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Default
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xoilactructiep.net:443
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xoilactructiep.net:80
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xoilactructiep.net:25
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xoilactructiep.net:8443
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gatex.xoilactructiep.net:443
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gatex.xoilactructiep.net:80
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gatex.xoilactructiep.net:25
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gatex.xoilactructiep.net:8443
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YEK5UBb18QLt
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delay
9
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install
true
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install_file
gatex.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 3 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\gatex.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\gatex.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 "gatex" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.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 "gatex" /tr '"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.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\tmp500F.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\gatex.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.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
gatex.exe.log
tmp500F.tmp.bat
gatex.exe
memory/676-15-0x00000000013A0000-0x00000000013C2000-memory.dmp
memory/676-16-0x0000000001710000-0x000000000171B000-memory.dmp
memory/3912-13-0x0000000000CD0000-0x0000000000CF2000-memory.dmp
memory/3912-14-0x0000000002AC0000-0x0000000002ACB000-memory.dmp
memory/4060-0-0x0000000000BD0000-0x0000000000BE2000-memory.dmp
memory/4060-1-0x0000000005760000-0x0000000005770000-memory.dmp
memory/4060-2-0x0000000005770000-0x000000000580C000-memory.dmp
memory/4060-7-0x0000000001550000-0x0000000001572000-memory.dmp