Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    147s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    02/11/2026, 12:21

General

  • Target
    2026-11-01_a8fd991c5b70ec0a9395ffc028ade295_elex_qilin.exe
  • Size 97KB
  • Sample261102-pjc5vstscy
  • SHA256 95ddd48b0e3a7391ad957716db0ccda231a337d25cf32e13c4f28010976b3074
  • 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 TTPs 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\2026-11-01_a8fd991c5b70ec0a9395ffc028ade295_elex_qilin.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-01_a8fd991c5b70ec0a9395ffc028ade295_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:4948
    • 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:1744
  • C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe
    C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    PID:3376
  • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k GPSvcGroup
    1⤵
      PID:4888

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          microsofthelp.exe

          • Path C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe
          • Size 98KB
          • SHA256 edb061f7b933a7464c1e7a8013d7b7f758e8ca83456d98bc6a4740ade284693d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/1744-10-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

          memory/3376-9-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4948-0-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4948-6-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp