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Database Entry



Gh0stRAT


Vendor detections: 12


Intelligence 12 IOCs 1 YARA 13 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 2f4f3bce4e588901683edc36575b14e829d70007673a001e13ab9d7d18c6fa8f
SHA3-384 hash: 803200e782c7657724ca9e1bc36d438e1b89b6a9ce11611c099d253177c284a0807c31925aa8d97f7b65e0181f25bb88
SHA1 hash: d750f15cb94aad873500daf81edb7b29fc234d87
MD5 hash: 435e7c73b4ccb6e5b1621bfdd4283caa
humanhash: asparagus-four-robert-whiskey
File name:2f4f3bce4e588901683edc36575b14e829d70007673a0.dll
Download: download sample
Signature Gh0stRAT
File size:185'887 bytes
First seen:2026-09-14 12:15:09 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:DLL dll
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash 0cc055d422b425d395de205fbc38a3de (1 x Gh0stRAT)
ssdeep 3072:+ohXzvyg4sT9e9Ekv9ppB07csqo7yrIFYiCSMB2SEXTWV5NO0Ei:+azrxheJvVB07cshyrwYfSMBSXTWHNrB
TLSH T118049F12BA0085B6EAEB117D50B96FBA966FBC34072D54C3F3658E9128242D37B313D7
TrID 29.5% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (6522/11/2)
22.8% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
20.3% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1)
9.1% (.EXE) OS/2 Executable (generic) (2029/13)
9.0% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
Magika pebin
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:dll Gh0stRAT RAT


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abuse_ch
Gh0stRAT C2:
198.23.185.239:80

Indicators Of Compromise (IOCs)


Below is a list of indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with this malware samples.

IOCThreatFox Reference
198.23.185.239:80 https://threatfox.abuse.ch/ioc/1917711/

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
242
Origin country :
NL NL
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware configuration found for:
Gh0stCringe
Details
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
anti-debug apt base64 crypto evasive explorer ghostrat hacktool keylogger lolbin microsoft_visual_cc overlay packed reconnaissance remoteaccesstool
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
dll x32
First seen:
2026-09-12T04:19:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-09-14T21:40:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Malware family:
Generic Malware
Verdict:
Malicious
Result
Threat name:
GhostRat
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
bank.troj.spyw.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample
Checks if browser processes are running
Contains functionality to capture and log keystrokes
Contains functionality to detect sleep reduction / modifications
Contains functionality to inject threads in other processes
Contains functionality to register a low level keyboard hook
Found stalling execution ending in API Sleep call
Joe Sandbox ML detected suspicious sample
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
May modify the system service descriptor table (often done to hook functions)
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
System process connects to network (likely due to code injection or exploit)
Tries to harvest and steal browser information (history, passwords, etc)
Yara detected GhostRat
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
behaviorgraph top1 dnsIp2 2 Behavior Graph ID: 1972667 Sample: 2f4f3bce4e588901683edc36575... Startdate: 14/09/2026 Architecture: WINDOWS Score: 100 32 mr-b01.tm-azurefd.net 2->32 34 casoneroutegold-prod-bggfgca0dkaag8a8.b01.azurefd.net 2->34 40 Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic 2->40 42 Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule) 2->42 44 Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample 2->44 46 4 other signatures 2->46 8 loaddll32.exe 1 2->8         started        signatures3 process4 process5 10 rundll32.exe 8->10         started        13 rundll32.exe 8->13         started        15 cmd.exe 1 8->15         started        17 6 other processes 8->17 signatures6 50 Found stalling execution ending in API Sleep call 10->50 52 Checks if browser processes are running 10->52 54 Contains functionality to inject threads in other processes 10->54 62 3 other signatures 10->62 56 System process connects to network (likely due to code injection or exploit) 13->56 58 May modify the system service descriptor table (often done to hook functions) 13->58 60 Tries to harvest and steal browser information (history, passwords, etc) 13->60 19 rundll32.exe 15->19         started        23 WerFault.exe 20 16 17->23         started        26 WerFault.exe 16 17->26         started        process7 dnsIp8 36 198.23.185.239, 49736, 49737, 49738 NOHAVPS-LLC-NOHAVPSLLCUS United States 19->36 48 May modify the system service descriptor table (often done to hook functions) 19->48 38 mr-b01.tm-azurefd.net 150.171.109.150, 443, 49866, 49893 MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK-MicrosoftCorporationUS South Africa 23->38 28 C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\...\Report.wer, Unicode 23->28 dropped 30 C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\...\Report.wer, Unicode 26->30 dropped file9 signatures10
Verdict:
inconclusive
YARA:
4 match(es)
Tags:
Executable PDB Path PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout Win 32 Exe x86
Threat name:
Win32.Backdoor.PcClient
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-09-13 12:20:11 UTC
File Type:
PE (Dll)
Extracted files:
3
AV detection:
21 of 24 (87.50%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  8/10
Tags:
discovery spyware stealer
Behaviour
Checks processor information in registry
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Reads user/profile data of web browsers
Badlisted process makes network request
Unpacked files
SH256 hash:
2f4f3bce4e588901683edc36575b14e829d70007673a001e13ab9d7d18c6fa8f
MD5 hash:
435e7c73b4ccb6e5b1621bfdd4283caa
SHA1 hash:
d750f15cb94aad873500daf81edb7b29fc234d87
Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

YARA Signatures


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Rule name:APT_WIN_Gh0st_ver
Author:@BryanNolen
Rule name:CP_Script_Inject_Detector
Author:DiegoAnalytics
Description:Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries
Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:EXE_gh0st_RootKit_first_stage_March2024
Author:Yashraj Solanki - Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at Bridewell
Description:Detects gh0st Root Kit malware Dropper which contains an embedded second stage payload based on PE properties
Reference:https://www.first.org/resources/papers/conference2010/cummings-slides.pdf
Rule name:FreddyBearDropper
Author:Dwarozh Hoshiar
Description:Freddy Bear Dropper is dropping a malware through base63 encoded powershell scrip.
Rule name:GenericGh0st
Author:Still
Rule name:gh0st
Author:https://github.com/jackcr/
Rule name:golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846
Author:Justin Cornwell
Description:CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_References_Browsers
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects binaries (Windows and macOS) referencing many web browsers. Observed in information stealers.
Rule name:pe_detect_tls_callbacks
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:TH_AntiVM_MassHunt_Win_Malware_2026_CYFARE
Author:CYFARE
Description:Detects Windows malware employing anti-VM / anti-sandbox evasion techniques across VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, QEMU, Xen, and generic sandbox environments
Reference:https://cyfare.net/
Rule name:VECT_Ransomware
Author:Mustafa Bakhit
Description:Detects activity associated with VECT ransomware. This includes registry modifications and deletions, execution of system and defense-evasion commands, suspicious API usage, mutex creation, file and memory manipulation, ransomware note generation, anti-debugging and anti-analysis techniques, and embedded cryptographic constants (SHA256) characteristic of this malware family. Designed for threat intelligence and malware detection environments.

File information


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