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Database Entry

SantaStealer

Vendor detections: 11

Intelligence 11 IOCs YARA 15 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01
SHA3-384 hash:	91d4b5807ae2e03b91418fa1676c7320c64b83c230ed32cd4a8d4d20b4dafd16e619d32c19dbd1ad0b3d5573a446f78f
SHA1 hash:	af102d3fc1610e2212471668c8b0273094659c95
MD5 hash:	1714f39fd092962f71185ed2b2ed6f4e
humanhash:	uncle-paris-wyoming-sweet
File name:	update.exe
Download:	download sample
Signature	SantaStealer Create hunting rule
File size:	3'286'657 bytes
First seen:	2026-02-03 19:45:11 UTC
Last seen:	2026-02-04 11:23:01 UTC
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/x-dosexec
imphash	b29f7bc6c3cf27ba78272829148a5262 (8 x SantaStealer)
ssdeep	98304:X8xwVdg89u4xv3KS1YARdGdCdJNQt4qCLFPlAq:X5DSSmAGdCrOt4q6NV
TLSH	T120E52362FB43B6D4C5DAC4B04D9605B3155AAC2306131B7BF5B8B3261EE572A3E32837
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	aachum
Tags:	exe SantaStealer

iamaachum

https://imnotmalware.icu/download/ebcb092c342f3079c7ac

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

116

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

No detections

Malware family:

n/a

ID:

File name:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/to9xeyugpflpq7l/

Verdict:

Malicious activity

Analysis date:

2026-02-03 19:38:16 UTC

Tags:

telegram loader stealer santastealer

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/5d48e3a5-a66c-40c2-90bd-f214c6cba7cf

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/51567/

Verdict:

Malicious

Score:

70%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=698250826b1af47db72c878b

Tags:

injection obfusc virus

Result

Verdict:

Clean

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Сreating synchronization primitives

Verdict:

Likely Malicious

Threat level:

7.5/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

anti-debug installer-heuristic overlay packed

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/69825058930564ff3c87ab16/reports/e4a6a5ec-4e4b-439f-8fc5-b55fd0b15fc5/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Tedy.Generic

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

exe x64

First seen:

2026-02-03T17:01:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-02-04T05:27:00Z UTC

Hits:

~100

Detections:

Trojan.Win32.Shellcode.sb Trojan.Win32.Agent.sba PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic Trojan-PSW.Win32.Stealer.sb Trojan-Downloader.Win32.PsDownload.sb Trojan.Win32.Shellcode.mbo Trojan.Win32.PowerShell.d Trojan.Win32.Inject.sb

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01/results?tab=lookup

Verdict:

Suspicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/c19c9f4a-abe4-4e73-b152-f1e4cf269ba8

Result

Threat name:

n/a

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

evad

Score:

60 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1862794

Signature

Found direct / indirect Syscall (likely to bypass EDR)

Joe Sandbox ML detected suspicious sample

Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file

Unusual module load detection (module proxying)

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Score:

75%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01

Gathering data

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01/

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat:

Trojan.Win32.Shellcode

Link:

https://tip.neiki.dev/file/88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01

Threat name:

Win64.Trojan.SantaStealer

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-02-03 19:45:39 UTC

File Type:

PE+ (Exe)

Extracted files:

AV detection:

13 of 36 (36.11%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=rctlbkijkwjbyvuufye43gqbd5eomxkwkrrtsumae2ptvh2gbqaq._file

Result

Malware family:

n/a

Score:

8/10

Tags:

credential_access defense_evasion discovery execution persistence spyware stealer

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260203-yglhwsfx6a/

Behaviour

Checks processor information in registry

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

Views/modifies file attributes

Browser Information Discovery

Accesses cryptocurrency files/wallets, possible credential harvesting

Credentials from Password Stores: Windows Credential Manager

Reads WinSCP keys stored on the system

Reads data files stored by FTP clients

Reads user/profile data of web browsers

Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files

Badlisted process makes network request

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01

MD5 hash:

1714f39fd092962f71185ed2b2ed6f4e

SHA1 hash:

af102d3fc1610e2212471668c8b0273094659c95

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/2a9d279a-0c73-4df8-be07-eac1b4d20e9f/

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

Threat name:

Suspicious File

Score:

0.30

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/88a6b0a90955921c56942e09cd9a011f48e65d565463395180269f3a9f460c01

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 Create hunting rule

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

Rule name:	DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo 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:	detect_powershell Create hunting rule
Author:	daniyyell
Description:	Detects suspicious PowerShell activity related to malware execution

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

Rule name:	dgaagas Create hunting rule
Author:	Harshit
Description:	Uses certutil.exe to download a file named test.txt

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

Rule name:	has_telegram_urls Create hunting rule
Author:	Aaron DeVera<aaron@backchannel.re>
Description:	Detects Telegram URLs

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:	pe_detect_tls_callbacks Create hunting rule

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

Rule name:	Sus_CMD_Powershell_Usage Create hunting rule
Author:	XiAnzheng
Description:	May Contain(Obfuscated or no) Powershell or CMD Command that can be abused by threat actor(can create FP)