Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    152s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    17/09/2026, 15:59

General

  • Target
    help-tgds.exe
  • Size 10.2MB
  • Sample260917-te7acsshph
  • SHA256 a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Family: salatstealer

    SalatStealer is a stealer that takes sceenshot written in Golang.

  • Detect SalatStealer payload 12 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 14 IoCs

    Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\help-tgds.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\help-tgds.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1168
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3424
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\updater_ikRZDzhQ.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\updater_ikRZDzhQ.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      PID:2832

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        updater_ikRZDzhQ.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\updater_ikRZDzhQ.exe
        • Size 3.4MB
        • SHA256 04f7712196058f6539a4c1586135d7424613258d7e58cdeab86a2839ddb6dec5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        __PSScriptPolicyTest_kej0hzws.bvr.ps1

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_kej0hzws.bvr.ps1
        • Size 60B
        • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        memory/2832-19-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-20-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-33-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-16-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-17-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-18-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-30-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-28-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-22-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-23-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-24-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-25-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/2832-27-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000001187000-memory.dmp

        memory/3424-11-0x0000019A52490000-0x0000019A525FA000-memory.dmp

        memory/3424-0-0x0000019A50140000-0x0000019A50150000-memory.dmp

        memory/3424-6-0x0000019A52360000-0x0000019A52382000-memory.dmp