asyncrat | dbfbf2c25085f7b789162d736584bd971fbb373f9d04495df79d28ede0f12226

Analysis

max time kernel
149s
max time network
150s
platform
windows11-21h2_x64
resource
win11-20260130-en
resource tags

arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20260130-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64systemwindows
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29/04/2026, 03:28

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General

Target
gatex.exe
Size 45KB
Sample260429-d1dbeab12m
SHA256 dbfbf2c25085f7b789162d736584bd971fbb373f9d04495df79d28ede0f12226
MD5 2d6004d2915cffb5f8fe0b7598546502
SHA1 2e4878409eb5d1f5057a3f07dccf5e5bb01d31da
SHA512 81a5b82b723e10fbfc2fc3b91b02824af249734e5d4798d71376584f6783a39a7febec9c2f89e938bf14185115a966c201f5d6e640920854f9148be30b666c11
SSDEEP 768:xu2z1T1tMfdWUdLO3mo2qzceeXKGoibbbQtN8/nPI65zjbzgX3iNET3a9aP85dBn:xu2z1T1y22OeDAtNKA653bsXSU3d85zn
TLSH
T1E8233B003BE8812BF2BF4F7899F26245867AF2633603D64A1CC451DB5713BC59A52AFD
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Score

10^/10

default defense_evasion discovery execution asyncrat persistence rat

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

asyncrat

Version

0.5.8

Botnet

Default

www.almendrawinery.com:443
www.almendrawinery.com:80
www.almendrawinery.com:25
www.almendrawinery.com:8443
gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:443
gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:80
gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:25
gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:8443

Mutex

v9GxcnIgyeae

Attributes

delay
9
install
true
install_file
gatex.exe
install_folder
%AppData%

aes.plain

Signatures

Family: AsyncRat
AsyncRAT is designed to remotely monitor and control other computers written in C#.
rat asyncrat

Async RAT payload 1 IoCs

rat

resource	yara_rule
behavioral2/files/0x001a00000002b350-14.dat	family_asyncrat

Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs

pid	Process
3088	gatex.exe
1200	gatex.exe

Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

System Information Discovery
T1082

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.

discovery

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	gatex.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	gatex.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	cmd.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	timeout.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	cmd.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	schtasks.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	gatex.exe

Delays execution with timeout.exe 1 IoCs

defense_evasion

pid	Process
4996	timeout.exe

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

persistence execution

Scheduled Task

T1053.005

pid	Process
5496	schtasks.exe

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 19 IoCs

pid	Process
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe
5268	gatex.exe

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs

description	pid	Process
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	5268	gatex.exe
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	3088	gatex.exe
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	3088	gatex.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 5268 wrote to memory of 3944	5268	gatex.exe	79
PID 5268 wrote to memory of 5656	5268	gatex.exe	81
PID 5656 wrote to memory of 4996	5656	cmd.exe	83
PID 3944 wrote to memory of 5496	3944	cmd.exe	84
PID 5656 wrote to memory of 1200	5656	cmd.exe	87

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
PID:5268
- 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"' & exit
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
  PID:3944
- - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
    schtasks /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
    PID:5496
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp28A1.tmp.bat""
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
  PID:5656
- - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\timeout.exe
    timeout 3
    3⤵
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    - Delays execution with timeout.exe
    PID:4996
- - C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.exe"
    3⤵
    - Executes dropped EXE
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    PID:1200

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
PID:3088

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Scheduled Task/Job

T1053

Scheduled Task

T1053.005

Persistence

Scheduled Task/Job

T1053

Scheduled Task

T1053.005

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task/Job

T1053

Scheduled Task

T1053.005

Defense Evasion

Credential Access

Discovery

System Information Discovery

T1082

System Location Discovery

T1614

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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gatex.exe.log

Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\gatex.exe.log
Size 522B
SHA256 3a8c487575696f7ace931dc220c85a47d33e0ead96aa9e47c705fee5dfac667a
MD5 db9f45365506c49961bfaf3be1475ad2
SHA1 6bd7222f7b7e3e9685207cb285091c92728168e4
SHA512 807028e2aed5b25b2d19ec4f09867746456de4e506c90c73e6730b35303511349a79ca0b9290509664edc0433d47e3fc7f2661534293ebb82185b1494da86a41
TLSH
T10DF09E303231B1D848023F42181C7A8942EF0746B7B8DF2D3650231EDC350176F212E3
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tmp28A1.tmp.bat

Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp28A1.tmp.bat
Size 149B
SHA256 ed339c2b8adea034b76182959cc2b4e548523b50581e7ebe063cc5f760a52c5b
MD5 2760dc063690d99e7745e3674be8d671
SHA1 7cccf643de8e2410565b02faf390b638a419978c
SHA512 45f36b9838dbe65931baaaa6a049ca6df62da98b068c82e59d405c585332472aade1a1097aa20eb41a0da434c60e3e272c129f37363cd63c15ccea38d2463843
TLSH
T1A3C02B4261CBEA1E2805249302FED48C917B6C5D3F40FB40C38C400D1A8044AF4DD342
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gatex.exe

Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.exe
Size 45KB
SHA256 dbfbf2c25085f7b789162d736584bd971fbb373f9d04495df79d28ede0f12226
MD5 2d6004d2915cffb5f8fe0b7598546502
SHA1 2e4878409eb5d1f5057a3f07dccf5e5bb01d31da
SHA512 81a5b82b723e10fbfc2fc3b91b02824af249734e5d4798d71376584f6783a39a7febec9c2f89e938bf14185115a966c201f5d6e640920854f9148be30b666c11
SSDEEP 768:xu2z1T1tMfdWUdLO3mo2qzceeXKGoibbbQtN8/nPI65zjbzgX3iNET3a9aP85dBn:xu2z1T1y22OeDAtNKA653bsXSU3d85zn
TLSH
T1E8233B003BE8812BF2BF4F7899F26245867AF2633603D64A1CC451DB5713BC59A52AFD
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

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memory/1200-22-0x0000000000F10000-0x0000000000F2A000-memory.dmp

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memory/1200-24-0x0000000002BD0000-0x0000000002BDB000-memory.dmp

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memory/1200-25-0x0000000005260000-0x000000000535E000-memory.dmp

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memory/1200-23-0x0000000005120000-0x00000000051E1000-memory.dmp

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memory/3088-20-0x0000000002740000-0x000000000274B000-memory.dmp

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memory/3088-18-0x0000000000860000-0x000000000087A000-memory.dmp

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memory/3088-21-0x0000000004D00000-0x0000000004DFE000-memory.dmp

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memory/3088-19-0x0000000004B30000-0x0000000004BF1000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-11-0x0000000005540000-0x0000000005601000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-12-0x00000000056E0000-0x00000000057DE000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-5-0x00000000056E0000-0x00000000057DE000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-0-0x0000000000AD0000-0x0000000000AE2000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-4-0x0000000005540000-0x0000000005601000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-3-0x00000000015C0000-0x00000000015DA000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-2-0x00000000057E0000-0x000000000587C000-memory.dmp

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memory/5268-1-0x00000000056D0000-0x00000000056E0000-memory.dmp

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