Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    147s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    05/08/2026, 23:42

General

  • Target
    2026-08-05_f4a3683988b8213d5cc8207e04edfde0_elex_qilin.exe
  • Size 97KB
  • Sample260805-3p5c7atwex
  • SHA256 3a27358f62747d94e356f55d9c2ff4316084191ac12623faf887914caa0717f3
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • blihanstealer

Mutex
  • pomdfghrt

Attributes
  • user_agent

    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; CIBA; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)

Signatures

  • Family: BlihanStealer

    Blihan is a stealer written in C++.

  • Detects executables built or packed with MPress PE compressor 5 IoCs
  • Deletes itself 1 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 2 IoCs
  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 1 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-05_f4a3683988b8213d5cc8207e04edfde0_elex_qilin.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-05_f4a3683988b8213d5cc8207e04edfde0_elex_qilin.exe"
    1⤵
    • Adds Run key to start application
    • Drops file in Windows directory
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4148
    • C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe
      "C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe"
      2⤵
      • Deletes itself
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in Windows directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4092
  • C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe
    C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    PID:1572

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        microsofthelp.exe

        • Path C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe
        • Size 97KB
        • SHA256 c3070caf20999a7b179db1afa81442ea139c5cd5c5a04fb8bd5c0053c655a351
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/1572-10-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

        memory/4092-11-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

        memory/4148-0-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

        memory/4148-7-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp