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Database Entry



SantaStealer


Vendor detections: 9


Intelligence 9 IOCs YARA 13 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 42029c1ca17fc088edff1faaa65cd6ea3faf3c0fa7fd3d0ddeb9b1c6106c66ff
SHA3-384 hash: 7bf14f0a7adcee4a554f612bcd55714b71811281814282a3712efcd8c20663c3940ad945fff858296b7e51a6b0ed0de0
SHA1 hash: 0e519a5922ee63e5691589003cdc4e7a02db5db4
MD5 hash: d7697960bf84da4963303a43202fe7e2
humanhash: green-idaho-sixteen-william
File name:file
Download: download sample
Signature SantaStealer
File size:7'120'384 bytes
First seen:2026-01-19 15:47:22 UTC
Last seen:2026-01-19 16:50:21 UTC
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash 09bf3c2c0d1e1c721043f5ca267758f5 (13 x SantaStealer, 3 x BRAT)
ssdeep 24576:zYW8q9lv6PsAM8Nk5Gehc/AZJFAqNIZbag9zoX6+psu66sn5dGwk4jW8/W+v0L35:MjzRjqNAqY6XbfgeukAFCAo8xw
TLSH T1EE76D0CAD16B40D6CC067FF598142BC39B3096324A34046836ABBE594F77DFA811EEB5
TrID 41.1% (.EXE) Microsoft Visual C++ compiled executable (generic) (16529/12/5)
26.1% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10522/11/4)
12.5% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
5.1% (.ICL) Windows Icons Library (generic) (2059/9)
5.0% (.EXE) OS/2 Executable (generic) (2029/13)
Magika pebin
Reporter Bitsight
Tags:dropped-by-amadey exe fbf543 SantaStealer


Avatar
Bitsight
url: http://130.12.180.43/files/2049738013/ilCDsTh.exe

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
8
# of downloads :
110
Origin country :
US US
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
_42029c1ca17fc088edff1faaa65cd6ea3faf3c0fa7fd3d0ddeb9b1c6106c66ff.exe
Verdict:
Malicious activity
Analysis date:
2026-01-19 16:20:29 UTC
Tags:
telegram stealer auto-sch santastealer

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
92.5%
Tags:
vmdetect virus
Verdict:
Likely Malicious
Threat level:
  7.5/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
anti-debug anti-vm packed
Result
Gathering data
Malware family:
Santastealer
Verdict:
Malicious
Verdict:
inconclusive
YARA:
4 match(es)
Tags:
Executable PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout Win 64 Exe x64
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  3/10
Tags:
execution
Behaviour
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
Unpacked files
SH256 hash:
42029c1ca17fc088edff1faaa65cd6ea3faf3c0fa7fd3d0ddeb9b1c6106c66ff
MD5 hash:
d7697960bf84da4963303a43202fe7e2
SHA1 hash:
0e519a5922ee63e5691589003cdc4e7a02db5db4
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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
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:DebuggerCheck__API
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:dgaagas
Author:Harshit
Description:Uses certutil.exe to download a file named test.txt
Rule name:golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846
Author:Justin Cornwell
Description:CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset
Rule name:has_telegram_urls
Author:Aaron DeVera<aaron@backchannel.re>
Description:Detects Telegram URLs
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SQLQuery_ConfidentialDataStore
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects executables containing SQL queries to confidential data stores. Observed in infostealers
Rule name:pe_detect_tls_callbacks
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:sus_pe_free_without_allocation
Author:Maxime THIEBAUT (@0xThiebaut)
Description:Detects an executable importing functions to free memory without importing allocation functions, often indicative of dynamic import resolution
Rule name:vmdetect
Author:nex
Description:Possibly employs anti-virtualization techniques

File information


The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

Web download

SantaStealer

Executable exe 42029c1ca17fc088edff1faaa65cd6ea3faf3c0fa7fd3d0ddeb9b1c6106c66ff

(this sample)

  
Dropped by
Amadey
  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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