citadel | d3a0c7c3d77468c5d2160848534c6ed74a12a9b8955941d7a37fa7f21a388805

Analysis

max time kernel
148s
max time network
142s
platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
resource tags

arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
submitted
14/10/2026, 07:31

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General

Target
jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe
Size 348KB
Sample261014-jcf1aax18j
SHA256 d3a0c7c3d77468c5d2160848534c6ed74a12a9b8955941d7a37fa7f21a388805
MD5 cf8de54d02fe252bc57741f37f4cde50
SHA1 6106bc2d6c048439c383ee32d6e1556d1b8424d6
SHA512 434b43bf02e8e9a25e30cb02be921b9566e9cee70115e2250911090c80cc8b1c2d6da2f18de9915a6ea259ddd6f44c3d702ea291a32cbf50bc464cdb6a654680
SSDEEP 3072:6nwGMtyH+3wBBloKGFH2Qf8mBNbVO6QopFAS/R9IRW1U6QmrtBqr9arn7zdDyA2K:4mwZbnCNBOukKR9I81U630grn4Se
TLSH
T1A874026710447C89D78C85728F7EF3DAAB1826525464DACB0EC029978F3BF278DD1AD8
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Score

10^/10

botnet discovery citadel trojan

Malware Config

Signatures

Family: Citadel
Citadel is a trojan and botnet written in C.
trojan botnet citadel

Detects Citadel payload 1 IoCs

resource	yara_rule
behavioral2/memory/4256-3-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043B000-memory.dmp	family_citadel

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 3872 set thread context of 4256	3872	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe	89

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.

discovery

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs

pid	Process
3872	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 4256	3872	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe	89
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 4256	3872	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe	89
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 4256	3872	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe	89
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 4256	3872	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe	89
PID 3872 wrote to memory of 4256	3872	jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe	89

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe"
1⤵
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:3872
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe"
  2⤵
  PID:4256

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Defense Evasion

Credential Access

Discovery

System Location Discovery

T1614

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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Downloads

memory/3872-2-0x0000000000780000-0x0000000000790000-memory.dmp

Download

memory/4256-3-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043B000-memory.dmp