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Database Entry



Plugx


Vendor detections: 8


Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 35 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 441bfa53ac594f01c4f8ef146857c6bc70d67dbf4b3659e109b3f5221f2ae3e3
SHA3-384 hash: fba35bcff8672778cbe58cd2e3c3ec10c74af79121e37768122a6332825b359b24f126167c7cd4534354ab7c21ef634f
SHA1 hash: d0e8553dfdfe3fcadb0ee0bc8d4fc60c7ee51db1
MD5 hash: acdd0bf6405a5ca2a88fe5fd4d042630
humanhash: fourteen-mango-october-hamper
File name:LuxuryLoader v2.exe
Download: download sample
Signature Plugx
File size:67'085'650 bytes
First seen:2025-08-13 15:13:36 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash d16b0653830ab3e19afc6486413a4f01 (7 x Plugx, 2 x NodeLoader)
ssdeep 393216:rkY70olZVSS8JkEkhnN4FZQJf1zEFbNWCujm6KI46p5Res+p+kXBSE7rGvHvmflU:YYoo18Jk/W20fRd5rs3wbeJ
TLSH T16CE75A42A6EB44D0F9F79E7195F652274537BD066F3184CB620C1B2A5F332E08A77B22
TrID 49.3% (.EXE) Win32 EXE PECompact compressed (generic) (41569/9/9)
19.6% (.EXE) Microsoft Visual C++ compiled executable (generic) (16529/12/5)
12.4% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10522/11/4)
5.9% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
5.3% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1)
Magika pebin
Reporter aachum
Tags:exe luxuryservices-live NodeLoader Plugx


Avatar
iamaachum
https://luxuryservices.live/cheat/cs2 => https://luxuryservices.live/btc/LuxuryService.rar

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
80
Origin country :
ES ES
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Result
Verdict:
Clean
Maliciousness:
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
amadey amadey anti-debug base64 crypto expand fingerprint lolbin microsoft_visual_cc nexe oct overlay overlay packed plugx threat
Result
Threat name:
n/a
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj
Score:
52 / 100
Signature
Joe Sandbox ML detected suspicious sample
Yara detected NexeCompiled Binary
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Gathering data
Threat name:
Win32.Trojan.Generic
Status:
Suspicious
First seen:
2025-08-13 09:12:44 UTC
File Type:
PE (Exe)
Extracted files:
1
AV detection:
4 of 24 (16.67%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  3/10
Tags:
discovery
Behaviour
Program crash
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Verdict:
Suspicious
Tags:
apt plugx
YARA:
malware_PlugX_config
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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:ach_202409_html_FedEx_phish
Author:abuse.ch
Description:Detects potential HTML FedEx phishing forms
Rule name:Agent_BTZ
Rule name:APT_Bitter_ZxxZ_Downloader
Author:SECUINFRA Falcon Team (@SI_FalconTeam)
Description:Detects Bitter (T-APT-17) ZxxZ Downloader
Reference:https://www.secuinfra.com/en/techtalk/whatever-floats-your-boat-bitter-apt-continues-to-target-bangladesh
Rule name:attack_India
Rule name:BLOWFISH_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for Blowfish constants
Rule name:botnet_plaintext_c2
Author:cip
Description:Attempts to match at least some of the strings used in some botnet variants which use plaintext communication protocols.
Rule name:Check_OutputDebugStringA_iat
Rule name:ComRAT
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__API
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__MemoryWorkingSet
Author:Fernando Mercês
Description:Anti-debug process memory working set size check
Reference:http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2015/06/anti-debugger-trick-quicky/
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerException__SetConsoleCtrl
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:golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846
Author:Justin Cornwell
Description:CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset
Rule name:Indicator_MiniDumpWriteDump
Author:Obscurity Labs LLC
Description:Detects PE files and PowerShell scripts that use MiniDumpWriteDump either through direct imports or string references
Rule name:ldpreload
Author:xorseed
Reference:https://stuff.rop.io/
Rule name:malware_PlugX_config
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:detect PlugX in memory
Reference:internal research
Rule name:MD5_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for MD5 constants
Rule name:Nexe
Author:nwunderly
Rule name:pe_detect_tls_callbacks
Rule name:PlugX
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:detect PlugX in memory
Reference:internal research
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:reverse_http
Author:CD_R0M_
Description:Identify strings with http reversed (ptth)
Rule name:RIPEMD160_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for RIPEMD-160 constants
Rule name:SEH__vectored
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:SHA1_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA1 constants
Rule name:SHA512_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA384/SHA512 constants
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:Sus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PE
Author:XiAnzheng
Description:Check for Overlay, Obfuscating, Encrypting, Spoofing, Hiding, or Entropy Technique(can create FP)
Rule name:test_Malaysia
Author:rectifyq
Description:Detects file containing malaysia string
Rule name:WHIRLPOOL_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for WhirlPool constants
Rule name:win_amadey_bytecodes_oct_2023
Author:Matthew @ Embee_Research
Rule name:WIN_WebSocket_Base64_C2_20250726
Author:dogsafetyforeverone
Description:Detects configuration strings used by malware to specify WebSocket command-and-control endpoints inside Base64-encoded data. It looks for prefixes such as '#ws://' or '#wss://' that were found in QuasarRAT configuration data.
Rule name:without_attachments
Author:Antonio Sanchez <asanchez@hispasec.com>
Description:Rule to detect the no presence of any attachment
Reference:http://laboratorio.blogs.hispasec.com/
Rule name:with_urls
Author:Antonio Sanchez <asanchez@hispasec.com>
Description:Rule to detect the presence of an or several urls
Reference:http://laboratorio.blogs.hispasec.com/

File information


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

Web download

Plugx

Executable exe 441bfa53ac594f01c4f8ef146857c6bc70d67dbf4b3659e109b3f5221f2ae3e3

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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