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Database Entry



AgentTesla


Vendor detections: 17


Intelligence 17 IOCs YARA 21 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 42b65197ee2dddb7b3cae26cf2d595a0f074e20e9ba0aa2efdf41d5ec3461579
SHA3-384 hash: fbb277baac30606d4f70a994ea2b5bd10663aa534f34138325da3fce9a86fbf03e9170e2bdf1ed24267ee651e5675401
SHA1 hash: 94add754ef3f3abab93ea5135f4cde24b24f2128
MD5 hash: 2d3c1ad3e1cdca3e45388c3056755721
humanhash: nine-uncle-sweet-oklahoma
File name:Scan_5564.exe
Download: download sample
Signature AgentTesla
File size:1'139'712 bytes
First seen:2026-08-19 18:04:00 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash f34d5f2d4577ed6d9ceec516c1f5a744 (49'197 x AgentTesla, 20'351 x Formbook, 12'365 x SnakeKeylogger)
ssdeep 24576:7x9cQR+ioFB9mmKKRbpOeOqCqgDGEvXKgMBTplyua6kdL89:7xWQRaE3eOt3MhyNo
TLSH T1E835DF082257DB27C4117B74C833E7F80A641E95E910D22F9EEA7EBBBF35E355845282
TrID 73.9% (.EXE) Generic CIL Executable (.NET, Mono, etc.) (73123/4/13)
6.6% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2)
6.6% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (6522/11/2)
4.5% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1)
2.0% (.ICL) Windows Icons Library (generic) (2059/9)
Magika pebin
Reporter threatcat_ch
Tags:AgentTesla exe

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
164
Origin country :
CH CH
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Creating a window
Launching a service
Unauthorized injection to a recently created process
Restart of the analyzed sample
Creating a file
Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests
Сreating synchronization primitives
DNS request
Connection attempt
Sending an HTTP GET request
Reading critical registry keys
Changing a file
Stealing user critical data
Verdict:
Likely Malicious
Threat level:
  7.5/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
packed vbnet
Result
Threat name:
AgentTesla
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.spyw.expl.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
.NET source code contains method to dynamically call methods (often used by packers)
Check if machine is in data center or colocation facility
Contains functionality to check if a debugger is running (CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent)
Contains functionality to log keystrokes (.Net Source)
Found malware configuration
Injects a PE file into a foreign processes
Joe Sandbox ML detected suspicious sample
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Queries sensitive network adapter information (via WMI, Win32_NetworkAdapter, often done to detect virtual machines)
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
Tries to detect sandboxes and other dynamic analysis tools (process name or module or function)
Tries to harvest and steal browser information (history, passwords, etc)
Tries to harvest and steal ftp login credentials
Tries to harvest and steal Putty / WinSCP information (sessions, passwords, etc)
Tries to steal Mail credentials (via file / registry access)
Yara detected AgentTesla
Yara detected AntiVM3
Yara detected UAC Bypass using CMSTP
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Verdict:
inconclusive
YARA:
10 match(es)
Tags:
.Net Executable Managed .NET PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout SOS: 0.33 Win 32 Exe x86
Threat name:
Win32.Trojan.PhantomStealer
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-08-18 21:15:45 UTC
File Type:
PE (.Net Exe)
Extracted files:
9
AV detection:
27 of 38 (71.05%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
agenttesla
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:agenttesla collection discovery keylogger spyware stealer trojan
Behaviour
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
outlook_office_path
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
Looks up external IP address via web service
Reads WinSCP keys stored on the system
Reads data files stored by FTP clients
Reads user/profile data of local email clients
Reads user/profile data of web browsers
Family: AgentTesla
Unpacked files
SH256 hash:
42b65197ee2dddb7b3cae26cf2d595a0f074e20e9ba0aa2efdf41d5ec3461579
MD5 hash:
2d3c1ad3e1cdca3e45388c3056755721
SHA1 hash:
94add754ef3f3abab93ea5135f4cde24b24f2128
SH256 hash:
1308da2a18c17d5d7e4e3efa95316f53e2fb981ad9e46cda66c26b18b1faef90
MD5 hash:
231d935c6b5eaf67ec44ff7ae71b094c
SHA1 hash:
7caae5f7fbb3c3afa535f5eef2e6f2440aed36a2
Detections:
AgentTesla win_agent_tesla_g2 Agenttesla_type2 INDICATOR_EXE_Packed_GEN01 INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_References_Browsers INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Confidential_Data_Store INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Messaging_Clients INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_Referenfces_File_Transfer_Clients INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SandboxHookingDLL INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_VaultSchemaGUID
SH256 hash:
087834541499f4bf19e628e146f568754562d08f0d633833e58074072c4fed7a
MD5 hash:
4963f46d598f8f0bfc0d2d95fb8f0095
SHA1 hash:
bb4e320ef18c4f19ffc21b1c3546b2ed4c9abcd3
Detections:
SUSP_OBF_NET_ConfuserEx_Name_Pattern_Jan24
Malware family:
AgentTesla
Verdict:
Malicious
Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

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:AgentTesla_DIFF_Common_Strings_01
Author:schmidtsz
Description:Identify partial Agent Tesla strings
Rule name:Agenttesla_type2
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:detect Agenttesla in memory
Reference:internal research
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__RemoteAPI
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:INDICATOR_EXE_Packed_GEN01
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detect packed .NET executables. Mostly AgentTeslaV4.
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:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Confidential_Data_Store
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects executables referencing many confidential data stores found in browsers, mail clients, cryptocurreny wallets, etc. Observed in information stealers
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Messaging_Clients
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects executables referencing many email and collaboration clients. Observed in information stealers
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_Referenfces_File_Transfer_Clients
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects executables referencing many file transfer clients. Observed in information stealers
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SandboxHookingDLL
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects binaries and memory artifacts referencing sandbox DLLs typically observed in sandbox evasion
Rule name:INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_VaultSchemaGUID
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects executables referencing Windows vault credential objects. Observed in infostealers
Rule name:malware_Agenttesla_type2
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:detect Agenttesla in memory
Reference:internal research
Rule name:NET
Author:malware-lu
Rule name:NETexecutableMicrosoft
Author:malware-lu
Rule name:pe_imphash
Rule name:Skystars_Malware_Imphash
Author:Skystars LightDefender
Description:imphash
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)
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.
Rule name:Windows_Trojan_AgentTesla_ebf431a8
Author:Elastic Security
Reference:https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/attack-chain-leads-to-xworm-and-agenttesla

File information


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Malspam

AgentTesla

Executable exe 42b65197ee2dddb7b3cae26cf2d595a0f074e20e9ba0aa2efdf41d5ec3461579

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via e-mail attachment

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