Analysis
- max time kernel
298s - max time network
259s - platform
windows10-ltsc_2021_x64 - resource
win10ltsc2021-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
05/11/2026, 01:10
General
- Target QVKGSYNL.exe
- Size 6.6MB
- Sample261105-bjersswwex
- SHA256 ad6c822ffbe04fdf75c3daa61e02f8754a253e37158ffc888f708bfb0dd9ddd4
Malware Config
Extracted
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hijackloader
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directory
%APPDATA%\kubernetes_prompt
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inject_dll
%windir%\SysWOW64\ieframe.dll
Signatures
- Family: HijackLoader, IDAT loader, Ghostulse,
HijackLoader is a multi-stage loader, first seen in 2023.
- Family: SectopRAT
SectopRAT also known as Arechclient2 is a remote access trojan first seen in November 2019.
- Detects HijackLoader (aka IDAT Loader) 1 IoCs
- Detects SectopRAT aka Arechclient2 1 IoCs
- Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 18 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
- UPX packed file 2 IoCs
Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
The configured hostname and DNS domain identify the machine and are commonly collected to profile a host before it reports in.
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\QVKGSYNL.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\QVKGSYNL.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\Temp\{1EB53053-9E8A-4F8B-97B5-DFBEBE49C6E6}\.cr\QVKGSYNL.exe"C:\Windows\Temp\{1EB53053-9E8A-4F8B-97B5-DFBEBE49C6E6}\.cr\QVKGSYNL.exe" -burn.clean.room="C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\QVKGSYNL.exe" -burn.filehandle.attached=652 -burn.filehandle.self=6922⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\Temp\{95EB9ABB-A65A-4E2D-A2A7-A27D450C6539}\.ba\PiM.exe"C:\Windows\Temp\{95EB9ABB-A65A-4E2D-A2A7-A27D450C6539}\.ba\PiM.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\ProgramData\kubernetes_prompt\PiM.exeC:\ProgramData\kubernetes_prompt\PiM.exe4⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\BinaryColl.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\BinaryColl.exe"5⤵
- Loads dropped DLL
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
2E0F5D7.tmp
BinaryColl.exe
EF6CCD1.tmp
QVKGSYNL.exe
ACE.dll
Common.dll
GmsCommon.dll
PiM.exe
Pictorial.dll
StatusEventHandler.dll
WsmanClient.dll
buffer.lock
msvcp100.dll
msvcp_win.dll
msvcr100.dll
profilerdef74.pdb
ucrtbase.dll
memory/2440-60-0x00000000013C0000-0x00000000013C8000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-59-0x00000000013A0000-0x00000000013A7000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-58-0x0000000074FD0000-0x0000000075013000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-73-0x00000207F8F80000-0x00000207F9142000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-65-0x00007FF66D500000-0x00007FF66D59A000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-67-0x00007FF63BFD0000-0x00007FF63C443000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-70-0x00007FF66D500000-0x00007FF66D59A000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-72-0x00000207DF220000-0x00000207DF28C000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-74-0x00000207DF320000-0x00000207DF370000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-75-0x00000207F8E30000-0x00000207F8EA6000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-76-0x00007FF66D500000-0x00007FF66D59A000-memory.dmp
memory/2672-95-0x00000207F97C0000-0x00000207F9CE8000-memory.dmp
memory/3228-45-0x00000000735B1000-0x00000000735CB000-memory.dmp
memory/3228-43-0x00000000016A0000-0x00000000016A7000-memory.dmp
memory/3228-42-0x00000000735B0000-0x00000000735F3000-memory.dmp
memory/3228-46-0x00000000017F0000-0x00000000017F8000-memory.dmp