Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    132s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260710-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260710-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    11/07/2026, 17:06

General

  • Target
    2026-07-11_0f8ffd3872a0779706150ee0a70fe0cf_akira_cobalt-strike_quasar-rat.exe
  • Size 450KB
  • Sample260711-vmfcaahw6s
  • SHA256 3201dfb64a02baf99207ce649156c8b8a4963f60e929c32d36d33994d1f5bb1b
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Modifies Windows Firewall 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL 1 TTPs 6 IoCs

    Netsh.exe (also referred to as Netshell) is a command-line scripting utility used to interact with the network configuration of a system.

  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-11_0f8ffd3872a0779706150ee0a70fe0cf_akira_cobalt-strike_quasar-rat.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-11_0f8ffd3872a0779706150ee0a70fe0cf_akira_cobalt-strike_quasar-rat.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4756
    • C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exe
      "netsh" advfirewall firewall show rule name=RemotePad
      2⤵
      • Modifies Windows Firewall
      • Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
      PID:5656
    • C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exe
      "netsh" advfirewall firewall add rule name=RemotePad dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=8765-8774 profile=any enable=yes
      2⤵
      • Modifies Windows Firewall
      • Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
      PID:1800
  • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k GPSvcGroup
    1⤵
      PID:2544

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          memory/4756-3-0x00007FF766120000-0x00007FF766195000-memory.dmp