Overview

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2026-07-05...ar.exe

windows10-2004-x64

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2026-07-05...ar.exe

windows11-ltsc_2024-x64

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Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    122s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260629-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    05/07/2026, 16:13

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General

  • Target
    2026-07-05_44588897641257ef950b7e6c993d22c3_akira_cobalt-strike_icedid_njrat_satacom_vidar.exe
  • Size 1005KB
  • Sample260705-tn8jsady4t
  • SHA256 99c1cd740fa749a163ce8cdf93722191c4ba5d97de81576623a8bbcb622473d6
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
10/10
adwareexecutionakirapersistenceransomwareransowmwarespywarestealer

Malware Config

Extracted

Path

  • C:\Program Files\7-Zip\akira_readme.txt

  • akira

Ransom Note
  • Hi friends, Whatever who you are and what your title is if you're reading this it means the internal infrastructure of your company is fully or partially dead, all your backups - virtual, physical - everything that we managed to reach - are completely removed. Moreover, we have taken a great amount of your corporate data prior to encryption. Well, for now let's keep all the tears and resentment to ourselves and try to build a constructive dialogue. We're fully aware of what damage we caused by locking your internal sources. At the moment, you have to know: 1. Dealing with us you will save A LOT due to we are not interested in ruining your financially. We will study in depth your finance, bank & income statements, your savings, investments etc. and present our reasonable demand to you. If you have an active cyber insurance, let us know and we will guide you how to properly use it. Also, dragging out the negotiation process will lead to failing of a deal. 2. Paying us you save your TIME, MONEY, EFFORTS and be back on track within 24 hours approximately. Our decryptor works properly on any files or systems, so you will be able to check it by requesting a test decryption service from the beginning of our conversation. If you decide to recover on your own, keep in mind that you can permanently lose access to some files or accidently corrupt them - in this case we won't be able to help. 3. The security report or the exclusive first-hand information that you will receive upon reaching an agreement is of a great value, since NO full audit of your network will show you the vulnerabilities that we've managed to detect and used in order to get into, identify backup solutions and upload your data. 4. As for your data, if we fail to agree, we will try to sell personal information/trade secrets/databases/source codes - generally speaking, everything that has a value on the darkmarket - to multiple threat actors at ones. Then all of this will be published in our blog - https://akiral2iz6a7qgd3ayp3l6yub7xx2uep76idk3u2kollpj5z3z636bad.onion. 5. We're more than negotiable and will definitely find the way to settle this quickly and reach an agreement which will satisfy both of us. If you're indeed interested in our assistance and the services we provide you can reach out to us following simple instructions: 1. Install TOR Browser to get access to our chat room - https://www.torproject.org/download/. 2. Paste this link - https://akiralkzxzq2dsrzsrvbr2xgbbu2wgsmxryd4csgfameg52n7efvr2id.onion. 3. Use this code - 1355-WW-TRRY-AGQK - to log into our chat. Keep in mind that the faster you will get in touch, the less damage we cause.
URLs

  • https://akiral2iz6a7qgd3ayp3l6yub7xx2uep76idk3u2kollpj5z3z636bad.onion

  • https://akiralkzxzq2dsrzsrvbr2xgbbu2wgsmxryd4csgfameg52n7efvr2id.onion

Signatures

  • Family: Akira

    Akira is a ransomware first seen in March 2023 and targets several industries, including education, finance, real estate, manufacturing, and consulting.

    ransomwareakira
  • Process spawned unexpected child process 1 IoCs

    This typically indicates the parent process was compromised via an exploit or macro.

  • Renames multiple (10063) files with added filename extension

    This suggests ransomware activity of encrypting all the files on the system.

    ransomware
  • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Active Setup 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Adversaries may achieve persistence by adding a Registry key to the Active Setup of the local machine.

    persistence
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Run Powershell command to delete shadowcopy.

    executionransowmware
  • Drops startup file 1 IoCs
  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 3 TTPs

    Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.

    spywarestealer
  • Drops desktop.ini file(s) 27 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Drops file in Program Files directory 64 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • Checks SCSI registry key(s) 3 TTPs 62 IoCs

    SCSI information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
    adwarespyware
  • Modifies registry class 40 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 58 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 55 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 42 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 1 IoCs
  • Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

    The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.

    ransomware

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-05_44588897641257ef950b7e6c993d22c3_akira_cobalt-strike_icedid_njrat_satacom_vidar.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-05_44588897641257ef950b7e6c993d22c3_akira_cobalt-strike_icedid_njrat_satacom_vidar.exe"
    1⤵
    • Drops startup file
    • Drops desktop.ini file(s)
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:5416
  • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
    powershell.exe -Command "Get-WmiObject Win32_Shadowcopy | Remove-WmiObject"
    1⤵
    • Process spawned unexpected child process
    • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:3484
  • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:5636
  • C:\Windows\system32\sihost.exe
    sihost.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2968
    • C:\Windows\explorer.exe
      explorer.exe /LOADSAVEDWINDOWS
      2⤵
      • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Active Setup
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Checks SCSI registry key(s)
      • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
      • Modifies registry class
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
      • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
      PID:988
  • C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchHost.exe
    "C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchHost.exe" -ServerName:CortanaUI.AppXstmwaab17q5s3y22tp6apqz7a45vwv65.mca
    1⤵
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:2828
  • C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe
    "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe" -ServerName:App.AppXywbrabmsek0gm3tkwpr5kwzbs55tkqay.mca
    1⤵
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:3184

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        akira_readme.txt
        • Path C:\Program Files\7-Zip\akira_readme.txt
        • Size 2KB
        • SHA256 81b84510f391a8f3796ef8b8c77cbf02dc74d9ba0850380be3fb5fd5461a7333
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        DiscoverCacheData.dat
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PenWorkspace\DiscoverCacheData.dat
        • Size 1022B
        • SHA256 b8bf88d990be165dc51f462927ba17d5b72566ed6e73e73477f92a7b062b8943
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        57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\Content\57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157
        • Size 4KB
        • SHA256 0300e9ddb527990e8b59d06e9ccf3ec2bd92d3bbd0ef4fba69d6336e4195e82d
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        E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\Content\E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
        • Size 983B
        • SHA256 10e65e6063fdd767330f8ec55c411ed550781073d7205016bd7a7fef9754ab76
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        57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157
        • Size 342B
        • SHA256 07ccc7648c9e0d4c9581d890ad90a76621c9dd32ad1a446480b0470092b032fe
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        E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
        • Size 924B
        • SHA256 77d71e333308a292f825b0141668d59bb0024b1747a47802ce4694eea1b31fa7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
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        start2.bin
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\start2.bin
        • Size 4KB
        • SHA256 7ee09670f29ac2214ec18761e3b973df56e0cc6891ffdb5aadda5e476766db46
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        prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache
        • Size 587B
        • SHA256 b2209b771ee60d35244635ab8f98535ef42b3831cc6d543be82fcdb2195a3fb9
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
        Submit Download

        prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache
        • Size 599B
        • SHA256 b536a3dae9ea5c69081f0491eed829e3b57e32401fdf49a63031bcd6b20e6fdb
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
        Submit Download

        microsoftwindows.client[1].xml
        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\XRZ1TMA9\microsoftwindows.client[1].xml
        • Size 609B
        • SHA256 bc113649a9b5d369ed0940041938cbe3b426e7817591d457f7c1801f6e0eb101
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
        Submit Download

        memory/988-5632-0x000000000A590000-0x000000000A5E0000-memory.dmp
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        memory/988-8667-0x000000000A590000-0x000000000A5E0000-memory.dmp
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        memory/988-8662-0x0000000003BD0000-0x0000000003BD1000-memory.dmp
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        memory/2828-4128-0x0000018403E10000-0x0000018403F10000-memory.dmp
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        memory/2828-4149-0x0000018414270000-0x0000018414290000-memory.dmp
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        memory/2828-4135-0x0000018403DD0000-0x0000018403DF0000-memory.dmp
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        memory/2828-4098-0x00000184001E0000-0x00000184002E0000-memory.dmp
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        memory/2828-4125-0x0000018403A30000-0x0000018403A50000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-10-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-12-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-0-0x00007FFF1CCFF000-0x00007FFF1CD00000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-9-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-8-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-7-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-6-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-4-0x000001E5FB9A0000-0x000001E5FB9C2000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-5-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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        memory/3484-3-0x00007FFF1CB70000-0x00007FFF1D514000-memory.dmp
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