Analysis

  • max time kernel
    39s
  • max time network
    42s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    05/11/2026, 04:26

General

  • Target
    QVKGSYNL.exe
  • Size 9.4MB
  • Sample261105-e2nn7ssz4n
  • SHA256 5d7c6a2f5171346e67236e9f4b11a873eae268fa9da744c8951474e168d44727
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • hijackloader

Attributes
  • directory

    %APPDATA%\kubernetes_prompt

  • inject_dll

    %windir%\SysWOW64\ieframe.dll

xor.hex

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 23 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 2 IoCs

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

  • 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

  • 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
    PID:5944
    • C:\Windows\Temp\{F91FE7C2-9647-45C7-873E-597F59ECB2C7}\.cr\QVKGSYNL.exe
      "C:\Windows\Temp\{F91FE7C2-9647-45C7-873E-597F59ECB2C7}\.cr\QVKGSYNL.exe" -burn.clean.room="C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\QVKGSYNL.exe" -burn.filehandle.attached=748 -burn.filehandle.self=752
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1424
      • C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\PiM.exe
        "C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\PiM.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4920
        • C:\ProgramData\kubernetes_prompt\PiM.exe
          C:\ProgramData\kubernetes_prompt\PiM.exe
          4⤵
          • 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
          PID:5172
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\BinaryColl.exe
            "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\BinaryColl.exe"
            5⤵
            • Loads dropped DLL
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            PID:2516

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        4B2B925.tmp

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4B2B925.tmp
        • Size 4.5MB
        • SHA256 44d9d6c044a75bed0cbaa0fcb6df7be8d98e55a9ad35c54bdda94d948b41aef0
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        8D9E4AB.tmp

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\8D9E4AB.tmp
        • Size 40B
        • SHA256 a5806ebe9683695031df73bcd8173995b971db289b88c3225a0bb2bab3bb69dd
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        BinaryColl.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\BinaryColl.exe
        • Size 1.5MB
        • SHA256 d7a98d38a684a4b7d67a6dc3f3c73b54415e3bd197a2d225a0b6c5ac91e4819f
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        ACE.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\ACE.dll
        • Size 1.2MB
        • SHA256 b335af7bc5dbf3da2158efce5a7392768c4c34aadbb5277951a2ad7a223d5f00
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Common.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\Common.dll
        • Size 78KB
        • SHA256 34a81d578e08f0ccfd49f9919cd2d185cd977e6d7c94d51d8a4f7ee0fe64fa20
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        GmsCommon.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\GmsCommon.dll
        • Size 138KB
        • SHA256 3a4973945fe1b8b92520a036859e7a5c000f22e64c38722579fef6188afed136
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        MSVCP100.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\MSVCP100.dll
        • Size 412KB
        • SHA256 f7cae464ec8fb50b266bb19a4809f09cd0db863b6bf5619533d6fd995c9acbd1
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        MSVCR100.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\MSVCR100.dll
        • Size 756KB
        • SHA256 2c732382c7057d3d295da1537931c4a6d8df7f2fbdc3027f9ae58ad2fefa650e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        PiM.exe

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\PiM.exe
        • Size 410KB
        • SHA256 d0eae0c90115c457663852e8ad6c9207d3f51b442dc0f3749fd8b8714d02a55b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Pictorial.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\Pictorial.dll
        • Size 496KB
        • SHA256 cb845016015ca44908501dfc0dfeced06178b6986f204814a7d5c7656fbb79de
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        StatusEventHandler.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\StatusEventHandler.dll
        • Size 157KB
        • SHA256 7aa917ff00d2905ba4b632e056ed43c3fc41b8a7f47dc00b1b0223e90671d65a
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        WsmanClient.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\WsmanClient.dll
        • Size 1.2MB
        • SHA256 f9d7b41c12f45ef6c109aa60c534e7abe176400e24d2c56b3fed528a4631a7bd
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        buffer.lock

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\buffer.lock
        • Size 110KB
        • SHA256 c6ef51ee9d35f9c50f705b7a9d6525cfac86774d8dbe268abf7498eb92b46772
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        msvcp_win.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\msvcp_win.dll
        • Size 485KB
        • SHA256 55043a5dbe9b4bfe50e2e6be0bdf77a69a075becc520700dcaffb1d9f7686138
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        profilerdef74.pdb

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\profilerdef74.pdb
        • Size 3.6MB
        • SHA256 df6b75fffca626af5e1e75da341cba7c4b9746caac9ba4e742c1193a8e82abb2
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        ucrtbase.dll

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{744F3DC8-BD2D-437A-90E2-11B47ECC6A0C}\.ba\ucrtbase.dll
        • Size 1.1MB
        • SHA256 71358d729b01bdf38dbe5440705ea68ea9225f93c834f45c5687b0ea2b417c4e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        QVKGSYNL.exe

        • Path C:\Windows\Temp\{F91FE7C2-9647-45C7-873E-597F59ECB2C7}\.cr\QVKGSYNL.exe
        • Size 6.6MB
        • SHA256 ad6c822ffbe04fdf75c3daa61e02f8754a253e37158ffc888f708bfb0dd9ddd4
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/2516-73-0x00007FF7F44B0000-0x00007FF7F454A000-memory.dmp

        memory/2516-78-0x00007FF7F44B0000-0x00007FF7F454A000-memory.dmp

        memory/2516-83-0x00000241F2690000-0x00000241F2706000-memory.dmp

        memory/2516-82-0x00000241DA1C0000-0x00000241DA210000-memory.dmp

        memory/2516-81-0x00000241F29B0000-0x00000241F2B72000-memory.dmp

        memory/2516-80-0x00000241D8F70000-0x00000241D8FDC000-memory.dmp

        memory/2516-75-0x00007FF66E410000-0x00007FF66E883000-memory.dmp

        memory/4920-50-0x00000000014C0000-0x00000000014C8000-memory.dmp

        memory/4920-49-0x0000000073361000-0x000000007337B000-memory.dmp

        memory/4920-47-0x00000000014A0000-0x00000000014A7000-memory.dmp

        memory/4920-46-0x0000000073360000-0x00000000733A8000-memory.dmp

        memory/5172-66-0x0000000001B00000-0x0000000001B07000-memory.dmp

        memory/5172-67-0x0000000001B20000-0x0000000001B28000-memory.dmp

        memory/5172-65-0x0000000074F80000-0x0000000074FC8000-memory.dmp