citadel | 69bfa7c9a5b56b64dade28ca3da668c50943946230fa1ae1bc1a3584d68ead5d

Analysis

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

arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
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16/10/2026, 02:58

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General

Target
jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe
Size 344KB
Sample261016-df71aagv5k
SHA256 69bfa7c9a5b56b64dade28ca3da668c50943946230fa1ae1bc1a3584d68ead5d
MD5 1d82c1e6059cb98b06233a09d2dd3ea0
SHA1 22c4ed2cebc50e6b4b4720178e782933a1519b27
SHA512 a9f36a8cfbfd6919dd77ce3e4258c2799dfc90299617d7fd10cbcfbf175afbd54e330860cdccfd0cf757bff0325a0d34031811ca1224f6af6887fba47faffa45
SSDEEP 6144:EV/vN60ZOK3Hy9//N2JupW4/DGHs9FyByRlMHOyk2BjS:ENf3Hg/NJgs9YyReOyY
TLSH
T19E74C0A1FB56726DD952C5B8193CC4800FC6B1795AC2421B3EC22B810CE59EA6973FF7
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/5588-3-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043B000-memory.dmp	family_citadel

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 4176 set thread context of 5588	4176	jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe	90

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_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs

pid	Process
4176	jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 4176 wrote to memory of 5588	4176	jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe	90
PID 4176 wrote to memory of 5588	4176	jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe	90
PID 4176 wrote to memory of 5588	4176	jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe	90
PID 4176 wrote to memory of 5588	4176	jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe	90
PID 4176 wrote to memory of 5588	4176	jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe	90

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe"
1⤵
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:4176
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.wdmj.exe"
  2⤵
  PID:5588

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/4176-2-0x0000000002220000-0x0000000002230000-memory.dmp

Download

memory/5588-3-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000043B000-memory.dmp