Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
152s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
29/04/2026, 03:14
General
- Target gatex.exe
- Size 45KB
- Sample260429-drtl2af12v
- SHA256 dbfbf2c25085f7b789162d736584bd971fbb373f9d04495df79d28ede0f12226
Malware Config
Extracted
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asyncrat
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0.5.8
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Default
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www.almendrawinery.com:443
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www.almendrawinery.com:80
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www.almendrawinery.com:25
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www.almendrawinery.com:8443
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gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:443
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gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:80
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gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:25
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gatex.www.almendrawinery.com:8443
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v9GxcnIgyeae
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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\tmp3A93.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
tmp3A93.tmp.bat
gatex.exe
memory/788-0-0x0000000000680000-0x0000000000692000-memory.dmp
memory/788-1-0x0000000005270000-0x0000000005280000-memory.dmp
memory/788-2-0x0000000005320000-0x00000000053BC000-memory.dmp
memory/788-7-0x0000000005060000-0x00000000051AD000-memory.dmp
memory/788-8-0x00000000051B0000-0x0000000005214000-memory.dmp
memory/1920-16-0x0000000004970000-0x0000000004983000-memory.dmp
memory/1920-15-0x0000000004900000-0x0000000004964000-memory.dmp
memory/1920-18-0x0000000004A70000-0x0000000004A7E000-memory.dmp
memory/1920-17-0x0000000004A60000-0x0000000004A6B000-memory.dmp
memory/2676-22-0x0000000005540000-0x000000000554E000-memory.dmp
memory/2676-19-0x00000000052B0000-0x0000000005314000-memory.dmp
memory/2676-20-0x0000000001500000-0x0000000001513000-memory.dmp
memory/2676-21-0x0000000005530000-0x000000000553B000-memory.dmp
memory/4372-13-0x0000000001030000-0x00000000010EB000-memory.dmp