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PhantomStealer


Vendor detections: 9


Intelligence 9 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 4bd04debc182c6d62ead8d7682150188f1a483a90439dde4d4b17f70b0d9a2c0
SHA3-384 hash: c78118a98370726dc2b8265fe4d76dd930a368bf9f93df181ddb6ae5af212d408ada3e5d7d4a50d4cbb66cd5b1ed8d7e
SHA1 hash: 59270e602a7dbad1ac72e68deba7c9d5ce295c01
MD5 hash: 7c250cc03f6dccc2b2640c8eb1c4dffb
humanhash: jupiter-iowa-lithium-idaho
File name:Documents.ps1
Download: download sample
Signature PhantomStealer
File size:3'933 bytes
First seen:2025-09-12 14:42:04 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:PowerShell (PS) ps1
MIME type:text/plain
ssdeep 48:IGNRMSAyERhOsERaOl731rL13nCjul4xOYOlk4WOmrlkGk8AF7UcMjwnkl8TwnEy:ImMnXRolRlr13Cjuovs5Pi
Threatray 60 similar samples on MalwareBazaar
TLSH T18A810F253E26E56446F253B2BC37E244DB26C62F5242AA1876DEC1801FB5578C3F0FD6
Magika powershell
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:PhantomStealer ps1

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
55
Origin country :
SE SE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
ps1
First seen:
2025-09-11T19:35:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2025-09-11T19:35:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Detections:
Trojan.Win32.Garvi.a PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic
Result
Threat name:
Phantom stealer, Strela Stealer
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.spyw.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
.NET source code contains potential unpacker
.NET source code contains process injector
.NET source code contains very large array initializations
.NET source code references suspicious native API functions
AI detected malicious Powershell script
Contains functionality to capture screen (.Net source)
Contains functionality to log keystrokes (.Net Source)
Creates a thread in another existing process (thread injection)
Creates autostart registry keys with suspicious values (likely registry only malware)
Found many strings related to Crypto-Wallets (likely being stolen)
Joe Sandbox ML detected suspicious sample
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Powershell drops PE file
Powershell is started from unusual location (likely to bypass HIPS)
Queries sensitive video device information (via WMI, Win32_VideoController, often done to detect virtual machines)
Reads the Security eventlog
Reads the System eventlog
Sigma detected: Files With System Process Name In Unsuspected Locations
Sigma detected: System File Execution Location Anomaly
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
Switches to a custom stack to bypass stack traces
Tries to harvest and steal browser information (history, passwords, etc)
Writes to foreign memory regions
Yara detected Costura Assembly Loader
Yara detected Phantom stealer
Yara detected Powershell download and execute
Yara detected Strela Stealer
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 dnsIp2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1776548 Sample: Documents.ps1 Startdate: 12/09/2025 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 100 56 patrickhicks.org 2->56 58 youtube-ui.l.google.com 2->58 60 73 other IPs or domains 2->60 70 Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic 2->70 72 Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule) 2->72 74 Yara detected Phantom stealer 2->74 76 13 other signatures 2->76 8 powershell.exe 21 33 2->8         started        13 powershell.exe 2->13         started        15 powershell.exe 2->15         started        17 3 other processes 2->17 signatures3 process4 dnsIp5 62 patrickhicks.org 192.185.113.93, 443, 49683 UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1US United States 8->62 64 mail.privateemail.com 198.54.122.135, 49695, 587 NAMECHEAP-NETUS United States 8->64 66 icanhazip.com 104.16.185.241, 49693, 80 CLOUDFLARENETUS United States 8->66 48 C:\Users\user\AppData\...\powershell.exe, PE32 8->48 dropped 80 Queries sensitive video device information (via WMI, Win32_VideoController, often done to detect virtual machines) 8->80 82 Found many strings related to Crypto-Wallets (likely being stolen) 8->82 84 Creates autostart registry keys with suspicious values (likely registry only malware) 8->84 92 4 other signatures 8->92 19 msedge.exe 8->19         started        22 conhost.exe 8->22         started        24 firefox.exe 1 8->24         started        26 chrome.exe 8->26         started        86 Powershell is started from unusual location (likely to bypass HIPS) 13->86 88 Reads the Security eventlog 13->88 90 Reads the System eventlog 13->90 28 conhost.exe 13->28         started        30 conhost.exe 15->30         started        68 127.0.0.1 unknown unknown 17->68 32 firefox.exe 3 433 17->32         started        36 firefox.exe 17->36         started        file6 signatures7 process8 dnsIp9 78 Writes to foreign memory regions 19->78 50 pki-goog.l.google.com 142.250.72.163, 49705, 80 GOOGLEUS United States 32->50 52 prod.detectportal.prod.cloudops.mozgcp.net 34.107.221.82, 49697, 49699, 49746 GOOGLEUS United States 32->52 54 14 other IPs or domains 32->54 44 C:\Users\user\AppData\...\gmpopenh264.dll.tmp, PE32+ 32->44 dropped 46 C:\Users\user\...\gmpopenh264.dll (copy), PE32+ 32->46 dropped 38 firefox.exe 32->38         started        40 firefox.exe 32->40         started        42 firefox.exe 32->42         started        file10 signatures11 process12
Gathering data
Threat name:
Win32.Trojan.Generic
Status:
Suspicious
First seen:
2025-09-10 18:56:34 UTC
File Type:
Text (PowerShell)
AV detection:
5 of 38 (13.16%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
collection execution persistence
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Enumerates system info in registry
Modifies registry class
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Uses Task Scheduler COM API
outlook_office_path
outlook_win_path
Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
Drops file in Windows directory
Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
Adds Run key to start application
Looks up external IP address via web service
Executes dropped EXE
Badlisted process makes network request
Malware Config
Dropper Extraction:
https://patrickhicks.org/pdfshare/Document.txt
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YARA Signatures


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Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:detect_powershell
Author:daniyyell
Description:Detects suspicious PowerShell activity related to malware execution
Rule name:Detect_Remcos_RAT
Author:daniyyell
Description:Detects Remcos RAT payloads and commands
Rule name:NET
Author:malware-lu
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:Sus_CMD_Powershell_Usage
Author:XiAnzheng
Description:May Contain(Obfuscated or no) Powershell or CMD Command that can be abused by threat actor(can create FP)

File information


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Web download

PhantomStealer

PowerShell (PS) ps1 4bd04debc182c6d62ead8d7682150188f1a483a90439dde4d4b17f70b0d9a2c0

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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