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Database Entry

SalatStealer

Vendor detections: 17

Intelligence 17 IOCs YARA 67 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81
SHA3-384 hash:	9d8cad3d7aab83f8664e744a46dad9de96daf568ddfb3c0539f53af275c5c18b6ea9b5a68537241521ccd9bd809fea39
SHA1 hash:	09ed8e47421a624f2240aa649573067fe98559c3
MD5 hash:	f4e374153b6ab10329c7e6892fa98cd9
humanhash:	may-butter-juliet-mountain
File name:	4aa839afcacb1ae8.bin
Download:	download sample
Signature	SalatStealer Create hunting rule
File size:	3'593'728 bytes
First seen:	2026-10-25 09:24:40 UTC
Last seen:	2026-10-25 10:17:54 UTC
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable
imphash	6ed4f5f04d62b18d96b26d6db7c18840 (1'059 x SalatStealer, 78 x BitRAT, 49 x Vidar)
ssdeep	98304:8CIMjFhSKOXOVNCaW6VoSyN7zbnn7Syc:8CIMjFhUXKNdBvELQ
TLSH	T1D2F533A496B47D6B960043F8FF02885B5EF7E4A558CBDC0ACE1726368E1374B8045CBE
TrID	52.7% (.EXE) UPX compressed Win32 Executable (27066/9/6) 12.8% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2) 9.8% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1) 8.7% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1) 4.0% (.ICL) Windows Icons Library (generic) (2059/9)
Magika	pebin
Reporter	Tuxxin
Tags:	exe SalatStealer UPX

UPX packed

This file is packed with UPX. We have therefore unpacked the file. Below is furhter information about the unpacked (de-compressed) file.

File size (compressed) :	3'593'728 bytes
File size (de-compressed) :	12'571'648 bytes
Format:	win32/pe
Unpacked file:	a0dd235260f25b37b5015eba5517697bdf534a51427a3a62fe1fc4420dbd7237

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

180

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware configuration found for:

PEPacker

Details

Link:

https://research.acce.ciphertechsolutions.com/results/f0407c17-3a8d-4903-b9ea-b4e58204b5e2/

Malware family:

n/a

ID:

File name:

exe

Verdict:

Malicious activity

Analysis date:

2026-10-25 09:34:12 UTC

Tags:

salatstealer stealer upx susp-powershell golang

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/11b34637-acbb-47cb-94a2-43a97472e1cd

Note:

ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample

Detection:

Salat

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/94420/

Detection(s):

SecuriteInfo.com.Trojan.PWS.Salat.389.13849.13610.UNOFFICIAL

Verdict:

Malicious

Score:

96.5%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=6addcb065a22ac805bd9ff7d

Tags:

malware

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Creating synchronization primitives

DNS request

Sending a UDP request

Sending a custom TCP request

Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests

Creating a file in the Program Files subdirectories

Enabling the 'hidden' option for recently created files

Creating a file

Creating a process from a recently created file

Enabling autorun by creating a file

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat level:

10/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

anti-vm crypto masquerade packed packed packer upx

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/6addcb01d4a42908fa3b217b/reports/fbd19fb5-506c-4531-9f02-b19503ea9696/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Dump:Generic.Dacic.18086

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

exe x32

First seen:

2026-10-25T06:38:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-10-25T06:55:00Z UTC

Hits:

~10

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81/results?tab=lookup

Verdict:

Suspicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/8f81c7ef-b8c9-482a-9e38-14c0aa098069

Score:

99%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81

Verdict:

Go Loader (Factory-v3)

YARA:

6 match(es)

Tags:

Executable Go Loader (Factory-v3) Javascript PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout Stealer Loader T1027 T1055 T1059.007 UPX Win 32 Exe x86

Link:

https://app.malva.re/file/f4e374153b6ab10329c7e6892fa98cd9

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81/

Threat name:

Win32.Trojan.SalatStealer

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-10-25 08:15:30 UTC

AV detection:

26 of 38 (68.42%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=jkudtl6kzmnorjgaflnwf7vkx2mtgkpoo7ckugdz6rk3xxsx76aq._file

Verdict:

malicious

Label(s):

SalatStealer

Link:

https://reports.threatray.com/1cdc74b8-ee53-4c55-85d2-38183960056b

Result

Malware family:

salatstealer

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:salatstealer defense_evasion discovery stealer upx

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/261025-ldrvaayyhx/

Behaviour

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

Drops file in Program Files directory

UPX packed file

Executes a file named after a Windows system binary

Executes dropped EXE

Detect SalatStealer payload

Family: salatstealer

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81

MD5 hash:

f4e374153b6ab10329c7e6892fa98cd9

SHA1 hash:

09ed8e47421a624f2240aa649573067fe98559c3

Detections:

SUSP_Imphash_Mar23_3

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/76e8169b-2099-4e87-ae90-9f3dbeeaa578/

SH256 hash:

cba55cc3aab76b3fdcd4d777d80d2ba6d4b029071faefddce8e9f41df31b8ea2

MD5 hash:

5ffdd2d5d2038bdcba69138c03466caf

SHA1 hash:

d88299ad719e0cb669f7c9defb434b48a0ce63c1

Detections:

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_Embedded_Crypto_Wallet_Browser_Extension_IDs

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_References_Browsers

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SQLQuery_ConfidentialDataStore

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/76e8169b-2099-4e87-ae90-9f3dbeeaa578/

Malware family:

SalatStealer

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/4aa839afcacb/report/overview.html

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

Threat name:

Suspicious File

Score:

0.34

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81

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:	Base64_Encoded_Powershell_Directives Create hunting rule

Rule name:	command_and_control Create hunting rule
Author:	CD_R0M_
Description:	This rule searches for common strings found by malware using C2. Based on a sample used by a Ransomware group

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

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

Rule name:	DebuggerException__SetConsoleCtrl 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:	DetectGoMethodSignatures Create hunting rule
Author:	Wyatt Tauber
Description:	Detects Go method signatures in unpacked Go binaries

Rule name:	Detect_Go_GOMAXPROCS Create hunting rule
Author:	Obscurity Labs LLC
Description:	Detects Go binaries by the presence of runtime.GOMAXPROCS in the runtime metadata

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

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:	GoBinTest Create hunting rule

Rule name:	golang Create hunting rule

Rule name:	Golangmalware Create hunting rule
Author:	Dhanunjaya
Description:	Malware in Golang

Rule name:	golang_binary_string Create hunting rule
Description:	Golang strings present

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

Rule name:	Golang_Find_CSC846 Create hunting rule
Author:	Ashar Siddiqui
Description:	Find Go Signatuers

Rule name:	Golang_Find_CSC846_Simple Create hunting rule
Author:	Ashar Siddiqui
Description:	Find Go Signatuers

Rule name:	grakate_stealer_nov_2021 Create hunting rule

Rule name:	Heuristics_ChromeABE Create hunting rule
Author:	Still
Description:	attempts to match instructions related to Chrome App-bound Encryption elevation service; possibly spotted amongst infostealers

Rule name:	HiveRansomware Create hunting rule
Author:	Dhanunjaya
Description:	Yara Rule To Detect Hive V4 Ransomware

Rule name:	identity_golang Create hunting rule
Author:	Eric Yocam
Description:	find Golang malware

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_Embedded_Crypto_Wallet_Browser_Extension_IDs Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detect binaries embedding considerable number of cryptocurrency wallet browser extension IDs.

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_References_Browsers Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects binaries (Windows and macOS) referencing many web browsers. Observed in information stealers.

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:	Macos_Infostealer_Wallets_8e469ea0 Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	MD5_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for MD5 constants

Rule name:	Multi_Generic_Threat_19854dc2 Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	ProgramLanguage_Golang Create hunting rule
Author:	albertzsigovits
Description:	Application written in Golang programming language

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

Rule name:	RIPEMD160_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for RIPEMD-160 constants

Rule name:	Rooter Create hunting rule
Author:	Seth Hardy
Description:	Rooter

Rule name:	RooterStrings Create hunting rule
Author:	Seth Hardy
Description:	Rooter Identifying Strings

Rule name:	Salat Create hunting rule
Author:	kevoreilly
Description:	Salat Payload

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

Rule name:	SHA1_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for SHA1 constants

Rule name:	SHA512_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for SHA384/SHA512 constants

Rule name:	Suspicious_Golang_Binary Create hunting rule
Author:	Tim Machac
Description:	Triage: Golang-compiled binary with suspicious OS/persistence/network strings (not family-specific)

Rule name:	suspicious_PEs Create hunting rule
Author:	txc
Description:	This rule detected suspicious PE files, based on high entropy and low amount of imported DLLs. This behaviour indicates packed files or files, that hide their true intention.

Rule name:	Suspicious_Process Create hunting rule
Author:	Security Research Team
Description:	Suspicious process creation

Rule name:	Sus_All_Windows_PE_Malware Create hunting rule
Author:	DiegoAnalytics
Description:	Detects Windows PE malware of all types, avoids non-executables like .html

Rule name:	telebot_framework Create hunting rule
Author:	vietdx.mb

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

Rule name:	UPX Create hunting rule
Author:	kevoreilly
Description:	UPX Unpacker: dump on OEP (original entry point)

Rule name:	UPXV200V290MarkusOberhumerLaszloMolnarJohnReiser Create hunting rule
Author:	malware-lu

Rule name:	upx_largefile Create hunting rule
Author:	k3nr9

Rule name:	vmdetect Create hunting rule
Author:	nex
Description:	Possibly employs anti-virtualization techniques

Rule name:	Windows_Trojan_SalatStealer_03d2a4ee Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	Win_Clipboard_Clipper_Thengavar Create hunting rule
Author:	Thengavar
Description:	Detects malware manipulating the Windows clipboard for clipping or crypto stealing attacks

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_Fantom_ForgeAuto_98e6f354_Extrait Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects Fantom (pe, etat extrait)

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_PythonStealer_ForgeAuto_b24cb5bd Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects PythonStealer (pe, etat binaire)

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_Unknown_ForgeAuto_1762e598_Extrait Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects Unknown (pe, etat extrait)

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_Unknown_ForgeAuto_2e3a5916_Extrait Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects Unknown (pe, etat extrait)

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_Unknown_ForgeAuto_2ffc3572 Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects Unknown (pe, etat binaire)

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_Unknown_ForgeAuto_30f84f37 Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects Unknown (pe, etat binaire)

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_Unknown_ForgeAuto_37b4704b Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects Unknown (pe, etat binaire)

File information

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

Web download

SalatStealer

exe 4aa839afcacb1ae8a4c02adb62feaabe993329ee77c4aa1879f455bbde57ff81

(this sample)

SalatStealer

exe a0dd235260f25b37b5015eba5517697bdf534a51427a3a62fe1fc4420dbd7237

Delivery method

Distributed via web download

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/94420/

Dropping

SHA256 a0dd235260f25b37b5015eba5517697bdf534a51427a3a62fe1fc4420dbd7237

Dropping

MD5 08d0034481bbb5d8b5ebd9084a0c22b6

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