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Database Entry

ApexBot

Vendor detections: 9

Intelligence 9 IOCs YARA 36 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	68ba057e17157ef33b19df99a1c9556c6c7f04bb2ce43b628bb8a62bbc6ec692
SHA3-384 hash:	7164fd9e7daed251021be77510d9d9530171cda8ce7db0b512056ea53adcf45b515c9402b8652046f14fd8994abb8135
SHA1 hash:	f67087ecfe3d58fbfefe25b75e483ca50697916f
MD5 hash:	50dbe52f4a03ae6af4f543918d3ac038
humanhash:	chicken-double-eleven-east
File name:	bot.exe
Download:	download sample
Signature	ApexBot Create hunting rule
File size:	10'696'704 bytes
First seen:	2026-09-25 13:27:22 UTC
Last seen:	2026-09-27 09:26:00 UTC
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/x-dosexec
imphash	d42595b695fc008ef2c56aabd8efd68e (1'398 x Vidar, 331 x RemusStealer, 134 x Stealc)
ssdeep	98304:1Dcw63yuf4PGKYCM6ibDhZ0E/bTwTQex7SCwzKVYSqckCQcgz8:1DcX3nf4Pw9hiQexBw38Qcgz8
TLSH	T1B1B69D03E89105A9C599E630CAB79293BB717C591B3273C72B90F7386F767C06AB9740
TrID	33.1% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (6522/11/2) 25.6% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1) 10.4% (.ICL) Windows Icons Library (generic) (2059/9) 10.3% (.EXE) OS/2 Executable (generic) (2029/13) 10.1% (.EXE) Generic Win/DOS Executable (2002/3)
Magika	pebin
Reporter	BlinkzSec
Tags:	ApexBot

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

No detections

Malware family:

n/a

ID:

File name:

exe

Verdict:

Malicious activity

Analysis date:

2026-09-25 13:37:41 UTC

Tags:

botnet apex2bot golang

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/c3b595fd-3032-4fca-8b47-b2ee8e5c3a19

Note:

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

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/88971/

Result

Verdict:

Clean

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Connection attempt

Connecting to a non-recommended domain

Sending a custom TCP request

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Win/grayware_confidence_60%

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/68ba057e17157ef33b19df99a1c9556c6c7f04bb2ce43b628bb8a62bbc6ec692

Verdict:

Unknown

File Type:

exe x64

First seen:

2026-09-25T11:33:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-09-26T01:49:00Z UTC

Hits:

~10

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/68ba057e17157ef33b19df99a1c9556c6c7f04bb2ce43b628bb8a62bbc6ec692/results?tab=lookup

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/ad1710f6-da0b-4d48-8612-065000dfee5e

Score:

65%

Verdict:

Susipicious

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/68ba057e17157ef33b19df99a1c9556c6c7f04bb2ce43b628bb8a62bbc6ec692

Verdict:

Vidar Stealer

YARA:

8 match(es)

Tags:

Executable Go Loader (Factory-v3) Html Javascript in Html PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout T1027 T1055 Vidar Stealer Win 64 Exe x64

Link:

https://app.malva.re/file/50dbe52f4a03ae6af4f543918d3ac038

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/68ba057e17157ef33b19df99a1c9556c6c7f04bb2ce43b628bb8a62bbc6ec692/

Threat name:

Win64.Trojan.ApexBot

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-09-25 13:20:35 UTC

File Type:

PE+ (Exe)

AV detection:

18 of 38 (47.37%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=nc5ak7qxcv7pgoyz36m2dskvnrwh6bf3ftsdwyulxctcxpdoy2ja._file

Result

Malware family:

apex2

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:apex2 botnet

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260925-qqt8dsxbpc/

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

68ba057e17157ef33b19df99a1c9556c6c7f04bb2ce43b628bb8a62bbc6ec692

MD5 hash:

50dbe52f4a03ae6af4f543918d3ac038

SHA1 hash:

f67087ecfe3d58fbfefe25b75e483ca50697916f

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/e42b2bbc-6869-4dd2-a478-db63d1ddb7aa/

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/68ba057e17157ef33b19df99a1c9556c6c7f04bb2ce43b628bb8a62bbc6ec692

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:	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:	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:	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_duffcopy_amd64 Create hunting rule

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:	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_EXE_NoneWindowsUA Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects Windows executables referencing non-Windows User-Agents

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_TooManyWindowsUA Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables referencing many varying, potentially fake Windows User-Agents

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

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

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:	RemusStealer_GoPayload Create hunting rule
Author:	burger
Description:	Detects RemusStealer Go-compiled payload

Rule name:	reverse_http Create hunting rule
Author:	CD_R0M_
Description:	Identify strings with http reversed (ptth)

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

Rule name:	ScanStringsInsocks5systemz Create hunting rule
Author:	Byambaa@pubcert.mn
Description:	Scans presence of the found strings using the in-house brute force method

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:	SUSP_HTML_XMLHTTP_Redirect_Kit Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	HTML avec exfiltration XMLHTTP + redirection window.location - kit phishing frais
Reference:	Veille fraicheur 2026-09-14 / cluster HTML

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

Rule name:	test_Malaysia Create hunting rule
Author:	rectifyq
Description:	Detects file containing malaysia string

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

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/