Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
599s - max time network
601s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-ja - resource tags
arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260513-jalocale:ja-jpos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows - submitted
04/08/2026, 18:44
Static task
static1
1 signatures
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
04082026_1532_04082026_tax returns.zip
Resource
win10v2004-20260513-ja
6 signatures
600 seconds
Behavioral task
behavioral2
Sample
04082026_1532_04082026_tax returns.zip
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-ja
1 signatures
600 seconds
Behavioral task
behavioral3
Sample
taxreturns.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260513-ja
0 signatures
600 seconds
Behavioral task
behavioral4
Sample
taxreturns.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-ja
0 signatures
600 seconds
General
- Target 04082026_1532_04082026_tax returns.zip
- Size 34KB
- Sample260804-xdx7vack4s
- SHA256 7a330c11f130d4c459ba733f0fc2a7adafa5093d4a7f41d7b87a92e498d5390f
- MD5 0971d7c083a91f3a02fa9dc572e9a05a
- SHA1 0cb62f8e5616f322d607ae7d370719e2c9fc1a70
- SHA512 27537c1180e98c241967338c545d1026085bb10c15006ba74aa1cce7fc47f1f80d265cef4e1454f28ce2a2e855912bd1d4700b00fe4043a71bf717e430d1ba36
- SSDEEP 768:vm7wA6MQd3dmlPtmYhgfb75Z82ohP+w9L2Kf+OJNdQDZFv5T:vg6vOtNuz75Z1cnLJf9XQV95T
- TLSH T1B3F2F186FA4C2A1FCF58E13CD14C0A2567C1115A68B1D2E632786646A1DFC3C1CB47DB
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
10/10
Malware Config
Signatures
- Family: ValleyRat
ValleyRat stage2 is a backdoor written in C++.
- Family: valleyrat
- Detects ValleyRAT payload 9 IoCs
resource yara_rule behavioral1/memory/1004-9-0x000001FF9C5B0000-0x000001FF9C600000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/1004-11-0x000001FF9C5B0000-0x000001FF9C600000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/1004-10-0x000001FF9C5B0000-0x000001FF9C600000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/3520-19-0x000001BAA5BE0000-0x000001BAA5C30000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/3520-21-0x000001BAA5BE0000-0x000001BAA5C30000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/3520-20-0x000001BAA5BE0000-0x000001BAA5C30000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/1268-28-0x00000214F13A0000-0x00000214F13F0000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/1268-29-0x00000214F13A0000-0x00000214F13F0000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 behavioral1/memory/1268-30-0x00000214F13A0000-0x00000214F13F0000-memory.dmp family_valleyrat_stage_2_v2 - https://www.esentire.com/blog/winos4-0-online-module-staging-component-used-in-cleversoar-campaign 26 IoCs
resource yara_rule behavioral1/memory/1004-3-0x000001FF9C300000-0x000001FF9C32A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-5-0x000001FF9C300000-0x000001FF9C32A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-6-0x000001FF9C300000-0x000001FF9C32A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-7-0x000001FF9C300000-0x000001FF9C32A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-8-0x000001FF9C300000-0x000001FF9C32A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-9-0x000001FF9C5B0000-0x000001FF9C600000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-11-0x000001FF9C5B0000-0x000001FF9C600000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-10-0x000001FF9C5B0000-0x000001FF9C600000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-12-0x000001FF9C300000-0x000001FF9C32A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1004-13-0x000001FF9C300000-0x000001FF9C32A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-15-0x000001BAA5A00000-0x000001BAA5A2A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-16-0x000001BAA5A00000-0x000001BAA5A2A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-17-0x000001BAA5A00000-0x000001BAA5A2A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-18-0x000001BAA5A00000-0x000001BAA5A2A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-19-0x000001BAA5BE0000-0x000001BAA5C30000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-21-0x000001BAA5BE0000-0x000001BAA5C30000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-20-0x000001BAA5BE0000-0x000001BAA5C30000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/3520-23-0x000001BAA5A00000-0x000001BAA5A2A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-24-0x00000214F1140000-0x00000214F116A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-25-0x00000214F1140000-0x00000214F116A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-26-0x00000214F1140000-0x00000214F116A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-27-0x00000214F1140000-0x00000214F116A000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-28-0x00000214F13A0000-0x00000214F13F0000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-29-0x00000214F13A0000-0x00000214F13F0000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-30-0x00000214F13A0000-0x00000214F13F0000-memory.dmp WinosStager behavioral1/memory/1268-31-0x00000214F1140000-0x00000214F116A000-memory.dmp WinosStager - Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 63 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
description ioc Process File opened (read-only) \??\G: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Y: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Z: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\T: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Z: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\I: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\R: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\R: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\U: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\X: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\N: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Q: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\H: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\J: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\M: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\I: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\S: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\X: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\O: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\S: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\H: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\L: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Q: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\B: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\N: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\J: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\X: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\P: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\O: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Y: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\N: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\B: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\P: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\M: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\S: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Y: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\U: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\V: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\I: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\W: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\L: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\M: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\G: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\L: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\W: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Q: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\T: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\K: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\K: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\P: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\R: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\V: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\B: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\H: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\V: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\G: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\J: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\W: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\Z: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\K: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\T: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\U: tax returns.exe File opened (read-only) \??\O: tax returns.exe - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
description pid Process Token: SeDebugPrivilege 1004 tax returns.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 3520 tax returns.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 1268 tax returns.exe
Processes
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C:\Windows\Explorer.exeC:\Windows\Explorer.exe /idlist,,"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\04082026_1532_04082026_tax returns.zip"1⤵PID:3352
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C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exeC:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {9aa46009-3ce0-458a-a354-715610a075e6} -Embedding1⤵PID:4896
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\??\E:\tax returns.exe"E:\tax returns.exe"1⤵
- Enumerates connected drives
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:1004
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\??\E:\tax returns.exe"E:\tax returns.exe"1⤵
- Enumerates connected drives
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:3520
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\??\E:\tax returns.exe"E:\tax returns.exe"1⤵
- Enumerates connected drives
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:1268