Analysis

  • user interaction
    yes
  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    155s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20260130-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260130-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    29/04/2026, 03:14

General

  • Target
    gatex.exe
  • Size 45KB
  • Sample260429-drtl2af12v
  • SHA256 dbfbf2c25085f7b789162d736584bd971fbb373f9d04495df79d28ede0f12226
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • asyncrat

Version
  • 0.5.8

Botnet
  • Default

C2
  • 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#.

  • Async RAT payload 1 IoCs
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • 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 21 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\gatex.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\gatex.exe"
    1⤵
    • Checks computer location settings
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4196
    • 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:4408
      • 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:5732
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp88.tmp.bat""
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4432
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\timeout.exe
        timeout 3
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Delays execution with timeout.exe
        PID:5892
      • 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:5164
  • 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:1076

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        gatex.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\gatex.exe.log
        • Size 522B
        • SHA256 2412679218bb0a7d05ceee32869bbb223619bde9966c4c460a68304a3367724b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        tmp88.tmp.bat

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp88.tmp.bat
        • Size 147B
        • SHA256 baf3811f2c0361e11a1c6df02185d11387fc18582e3f1ae756cb3317f3490f9b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        gatex.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\gatex.exe
        • Size 45KB
        • SHA256 dbfbf2c25085f7b789162d736584bd971fbb373f9d04495df79d28ede0f12226
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/1076-18-0x0000000004F40000-0x00000000054F3000-memory.dmp

        memory/1076-17-0x00000000010E0000-0x0000000001200000-memory.dmp

        memory/1076-26-0x00000000010E0000-0x0000000001200000-memory.dmp

        memory/1076-19-0x0000000005540000-0x000000000554A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4196-2-0x00000000052C0000-0x000000000535C000-memory.dmp

        memory/4196-1-0x00000000026E0000-0x00000000026F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4196-9-0x0000000000CC0000-0x0000000000DE0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4196-3-0x0000000000CC0000-0x0000000000DE0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4196-0-0x0000000000220000-0x0000000000232000-memory.dmp

        memory/4196-4-0x0000000004C50000-0x0000000005203000-memory.dmp

        memory/5164-20-0x0000000000D50000-0x0000000000E70000-memory.dmp

        memory/5164-22-0x00000000029E0000-0x00000000029EA000-memory.dmp

        memory/5164-21-0x0000000004E80000-0x0000000005433000-memory.dmp

        memory/5892-15-0x0000000000DD0000-0x0000000000EF0000-memory.dmp