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Database Entry

SantaStealer

Vendor detections: 12

Intelligence 12 IOCs YARA 21 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	40b36d05de040e006567ed76b788aa25790b41ff6fc54567bf4996f4b7a89fcc
SHA3-384 hash:	02468af1ac354b1e4367f3220cf9917b8f1930ba420fef19836a911e1b849f64d7d076e894ff0761c398d8c611199439
SHA1 hash:	b90cea1d348ee3ad12ec34b8391593b81b89b26b
MD5 hash:	606afecc4dc7e3467e29161636aab4ce
humanhash:	freddie-cold-fillet-table
File name:	Loader.msi
Download:	download sample
Signature	SantaStealer Create hunting rule
File size:	2'199'552 bytes
First seen:	2026-04-14 12:42:18 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	msi
MIME type:	application/x-msi
ssdeep	49152:fNHKfGiSt2jDmxJC+xxsP7OOKZ0HtJZeUpt3mw5R5PqHnrSuAqK9S:ZkLleqQxVINTe82EWnuaK0
TLSH	T121A523017A080F93D41190B2B47FAA305E399DB432BB2D72B4D9FB7F6CB199986974C1
TrID	84.7% (.MSP) Windows Installer Patch (44509/10/5) 15.2% (.) Generic OLE2 / Multistream Compound (8000/1)
Magika	msi
Reporter	abuse_ch
Tags:	msi SantaStealer

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware configuration found for:

MSI

Details

MSI

an embedded setup program or component

Link:

https://research.acce.ciphertechsolutions.com/results/f925a61b-d828-4af2-b152-ff8d1965cdaf/

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/61548/

Verdict:

Clean

Score:

82.2%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=69de3643f68adfe10039b2c4

Tags:

n/a

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat level:

10/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

anti-debug installer overlay packed wix

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/69de363c5ea31bc68a29841e/reports/d84c3d66-4952-49da-95f9-f688823c2852/overview

Verdict:

Suspicious

Labled as:

Malware.Generic

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/40b36d05de040e006567ed76b788aa25790b41ff6fc54567bf4996f4b7a89fcc

Result

Verdict:

SUSPICIOUS

Link:

https://labs.inquest.net/dfi/sha256/40b36d05de040e006567ed76b788aa25790b41ff6fc54567bf4996f4b7a89fcc

Details

Windows PE Executable

Found a Windows Portable Executable (PE) binary. Depending on context, the presence of a binary is suspicious or malicious.

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

msi

First seen:

2026-04-14T09:49:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-04-16T04:44:00Z UTC

Hits:

~10

Detections:

Trojan.Win64.Agentb.sb Trojan.Win32.Inject.sb Trojan-Dropper.Win64.Agent.sb Trojan.Win32.Waldek.sb Trojan.Win32.Waldek.cmcu HEUR:Trojan.OLE2.Alien.gen

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/40b36d05de040e006567ed76b788aa25790b41ff6fc54567bf4996f4b7a89fcc/results?tab=lookup

Result

Threat name:

n/a

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

evad

Score:

60 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1898030

Signature

Contain functionality to detect virtual machines

Contains functionality to detect hardware virtualization (CPUID execution measurement)

Multi AV Scanner detection for dropped file

Tries to detect sandboxes and other dynamic analysis tools (process name or module or function)

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Score:

88%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

Result

Malware family:

n/a

Score:

9/10

Tags:

credential_access defense_evasion discovery execution persistence privilege_escalation spyware stealer

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260414-pxmw8aev8w/

Behaviour

Checks processor information in registry

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

Views/modifies file attributes

Browser Information Discovery

Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages

Drops file in System32 directory

Accesses cryptocurrency files/wallets, possible credential harvesting

Enumerates connected drives

Executes dropped EXE

Loads dropped DLL

Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files

Badlisted process makes network request

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Looks for VMWare Tools registry key

Looks for VirtualBox Guest Additions in registry

Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

Threat name:

Malicious File

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/40b36d05de040e006567ed76b788aa25790b41ff6fc54567bf4996f4b7a89fcc

YARA Signatures

MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

Rule name:	Check_OutputDebugStringA_iat Create hunting rule

Rule name:	CP_Script_Inject_Detector Create hunting rule
Author:	DiegoAnalytics
Description:	Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries

Rule name:	DebuggerCheck__API Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DetectEncryptedVariants Create hunting rule
Author:	Zinyth
Description:	Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded

Rule name:	detect_powershell Create hunting rule
Author:	daniyyell
Description:	Detects suspicious PowerShell activity related to malware execution

Rule name:	Detect_PowerShell_Obfuscation Create hunting rule
Author:	daniyyell
Description:	Detects obfuscated PowerShell commands commonly used in malicious scripts.

Rule name:	dgaagas Create hunting rule
Author:	Harshit
Description:	Uses certutil.exe to download a file named test.txt

Rule name:	Disable_Defender Create hunting rule
Author:	iam-py-test
Description:	Detect files disabling or modifying Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, or Microsoft Smartscreen

Rule name:	FreddyBearDropper Create hunting rule
Author:	Dwarozh Hoshiar
Description:	Freddy Bear Dropper is dropping a malware through base63 encoded powershell scrip.

Rule name:	golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846 Create hunting rule
Author:	Justin Cornwell
Description:	CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset

Rule name:	has_telegram_urls Create hunting rule
Author:	Aaron DeVera<aaron@backchannel.re>
Description:	Detects Telegram URLs

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SQLQuery_ConfidentialDataStore Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables containing SQL queries to confidential data stores. Observed in infostealers

Rule name:	pe_detect_tls_callbacks Create hunting rule

Rule name:	ProgramLanguage_Rust Create hunting rule
Author:	albertzsigovits
Description:	Application written in Rust programming language

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

Rule name:	Rustyloader_mem_loose Create hunting rule
Author:	James_inthe_box
Description:	Corroded buerloader
Reference:	https://app.any.run/tasks/83064edd-c7eb-4558-85e8-621db72b2a24

Rule name:	SEH__vectored Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	Sus_CMD_Powershell_Usage Create hunting rule
Author:	XiAnzheng
Description:	May Contain(Obfuscated or no) Powershell or CMD Command that can be abused by threat actor(can create FP)

Rule name:	TH_AntiVM_MassHunt_Win_Malware_2026_CYFARE Create hunting rule
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 Create hunting rule
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.