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Database Entry

QuasarRAT

Vendor detections: 15

Intelligence 15 IOCs 1 YARA 43 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	8ae9be8826a832aee632cc05d4db71ddfdc522f50d5feab2bf1d6edbe21af20a
SHA3-384 hash:	bcbc6d308b0269f3bc1b2f5042fc7b224c0d3519a33d5851456b5cebe7bb2a10aec2fb86b87672f48a3ccdb509452f94
SHA1 hash:	af0b4692469b1d68ee96641703f83e2f5f53055f
MD5 hash:	96a22c9ce3cf02e3ebebe814fb1e2b0a
humanhash:	five-sad-uncle-blossom
File name:	96A22C9CE3CF02E3EBEBE814FB1E2B0A.exe
Download:	download sample
Signature	QuasarRAT Create hunting rule
File size:	2'005'504 bytes
First seen:	2026-11-09 11:15:06 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/vnd.microsoft.portable-executable
imphash	f34d5f2d4577ed6d9ceec516c1f5a744 (49'350 x AgentTesla, 20'845 x Formbook, 12'417 x SnakeKeylogger)
ssdeep	24576:+LS2eWBRwRR16z/0m8yXP8oc5R2NntxY0KKm77yviUSQaZaOwI55l2S62r9iyFoL:+Z7wRPirm2NnPTKKm77LrwCB6uanAc
TLSH	T1B295F150A7F98616F1FF1BBA987345150B37B8479A3AC35E4A8C946D0FB33408E643A7
TrID	59.5% (.RLL) Microsoft Resource Library (x86) (177572/6/26) 24.5% (.EXE) Generic CIL Executable (.NET, Mono, etc.) (73123/4/13) 5.5% (.EXE) Microsoft Visual C++ compiled executable (generic) (16529/12/5) 2.2% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2) 2.1% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (6522/11/2)
Magika	pebin
Reporter	abuse_ch
Tags:	exe QuasarRAT RAT

abuse_ch

QuasarRAT C2:
191.217.233.144:4782

Indicators Of Compromise (IOCs)

Below is a list of indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with this malware samples.

IOC	ThreatFox Reference
191.217.233.144:4782	https://threatfox.abuse.ch/ioc/2022152/

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

216

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware configuration found for:

QuasarRAT

Details

Link:

https://research.acce.ciphertechsolutions.com/results/7c8b6def-11be-4713-b172-f13d7f4cee99/

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/98802/

Detection(s):

ditekSHen.MALWARE.Win.Trojan.QuasarStealer.UNOFFICIAL

Win.Malware.Bulz-9933026-0

Win.Malware.Generic-6623004-0

Win.Malware.Generic-9883083-0

Win.Packed.Msilperseus-9956592-0

YARA.SIGNATURE_BASE_MAL_Quasarrat_May19_1.UNOFFICIAL

Gathering data

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Creating a window

Creating synchronization primitives

Connection attempt

Sending a custom TCP request

DNS request

Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests

Gathering data

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Trojan[Banker]/MSIL.ClipBanker

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/8ae9be8826a832aee632cc05d4db71ddfdc522f50d5feab2bf1d6edbe21af20a

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

exe x32

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/8ae9be8826a832aee632cc05d4db71ddfdc522f50d5feab2bf1d6edbe21af20a/results?tab=lookup

Result

Threat name:

Clipboard Hijacker, Quasar

Detection:

malicious

Classification:

troj.spyw.evad

Score:

100 / 100

Link:

https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/2001537

Signature

.NET source code contains potential unpacker

.NET source code contains process injector

.NET source code references suspicious native API functions

Antivirus / Scanner detection for submitted sample

Contains functionality to disable the Task Manager (.Net Source)

Hides that the sample has been downloaded from the Internet (zone.identifier)

Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)

Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file

Tries to detect sandboxes and other dynamic analysis tools (process name or module or function)

Yara detected Clipboard Hijacker

Yara detected Quasar RAT

Behaviour

Behavior Graph:

Download SVG

Gathering data

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/8ae9be8826a832aee632cc05d4db71ddfdc522f50d5feab2bf1d6edbe21af20a/

Threat name:

Win32.Trojan.Pulsar

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-11-05 07:06:24 UTC

File Type:

PE (.Net Exe)

Extracted files:

AV detection:

29 of 36 (80.56%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=rlu35cbgvazk5zrszqc5jw3r3x64kixvbvp6vmv7dvxnxyq26ifa._file

Result

Malware family:

quasar

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:quasar discovery module rat spyware trojan

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/261109-ncppmsy1ct/

Behaviour

Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

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

Family: Quasar RAT

PulsaRAT library module

Quasar payload

Malware Family:

QuasarRAT

Verdict:

Malicious

Tags:

quasarrat alkhaser backnet quasarrat config_extracted rat

YARA:

family_quasar HKTL_EXE_AlKhaser_Jul_01 MAL_BackNet_Nov18_1 Quasar MAL_QuasarRAT_May19_1

Link:

https://app.threat.zone/submission/9e23f74c-33d2-4f6c-a296-2ac0b8d63550

Malware Family:

msil

Malicious:

True

Tags:

dotnet peexe wmi-activity obfuscated adapter-discovery malware debugger-check

Link:

https://intel.virussign.com/intelligence/file/8ae9be8826a832aee632cc05d4db71ddfdc522f50d5feab2bf1d6edbe21af20a

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

8ae9be8826a832aee632cc05d4db71ddfdc522f50d5feab2bf1d6edbe21af20a

MD5 hash:

96a22c9ce3cf02e3ebebe814fb1e2b0a

SHA1 hash:

af0b4692469b1d68ee96641703f83e2f5f53055f

Detections:

QuasarRAT

cn_utf8_windows_terminal

INDICATOR_EXE_Packed_Fody

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_NoneWindowsUA

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SandboxHookingDLL

MAL_BackNet_Nov18_1

MAL_QuasarRAT_May19_1

malware_windows_xrat_quasarrat

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/e0854ee7-53be-4a29-885c-6fe33ad3cb8f/

Malware family:

PulsarRAT

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/8ae9be8826a8/report/overview.html

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/8ae9be8826a832aee632cc05d4db71ddfdc522f50d5feab2bf1d6edbe21af20a

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_Dlls Create hunting rule

Rule name:	cobalt_strike_beacon_detected Create hunting rule
Author:	0x0d4y
Description:	This rule detects cobalt strike beacons.

Rule name:	Costura_Protobuf Create hunting rule
Author:	@bartblaze
Description:	Identifies Costura and Protobuf in .NET assemblies, respectively for storing resources and (de)serialization. Seen together might indicate a suspect binary.

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:	DebuggerHiding__Thread 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_Obfuscation Create hunting rule
Author:	daniyyell
Description:	Detects obfuscated PowerShell commands commonly used in malicious scripts.

Rule name:	DotNet_RGB_Embedded_AssemblyLoader_Hunt Create hunting rule
Author:	ShadowOpCode
Description:	Hunt .NET bitmap RGB extraction combined with embedded resources and assembly loading

Rule name:	exploit_any_poppopret Create hunting rule
Author:	Jeff White [karttoon@gmail.com] @noottrak
Description:	Identify POP -> POP -> RET opcodes for quick ROP Gadget creation in target binaries.

Rule name:	FreddyBearDropper Create hunting rule
Author:	Dwarozh Hoshiar
Description:	Freddy Bear Dropper is dropping a malware through base63 encoded powershell scrip.

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

Rule name:	hunting_generic_win_rat Create hunting rule
Author:	Ajin Deepak, AD2001
Description:	Hunting RATS based on common patterns

Rule name:	INDICATOR_EXE_Packed_Fody Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables manipulated with Fody

Rule name:	Indicator_MiniDumpWriteDump Create hunting rule
Author:	Obscurity Labs LLC
Description:	Detects PE files and PowerShell scripts that use MiniDumpWriteDump either through direct imports or string references

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_SandboxHookingDLL Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects binaries and memory artifacts referencing sandbox DLLs typically observed in sandbox evasion

Rule name:	Malware_PE_NET_KoiLoader Create hunting rule
Author:	Serhii Kocherhan
Description:	Detects Koi Loader .NET executables packed with Confuser featuring specific mutex, assembly metadata, and unmanaged DLL imports

Rule name:	MAL_BackNet_Nov18_1 Create hunting rule
Author:	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Description:	Detects BackNet samples
Reference:	https://github.com/valsov/BackNet

Rule name:	MAL_BackNet_Nov18_1_RID2D6D Create hunting rule
Author:	Florian Roth
Description:	Detects BackNet samples
Reference:	https://github.com/valsov/BackNet

Rule name:	MAL_QuasarRAT_May19_1 Create hunting rule
Description:	Detects QuasarRAT malware

Rule name:	MAL_QuasarRAT_May19_1 Create hunting rule
Author:	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Description:	Detects QuasarRAT malware
Reference:	https://blog.ensilo.com/uncovering-new-activity-by-apt10

Rule name:	MAL_QuasarRAT_May19_1_RID2E1E Create hunting rule
Author:	Florian Roth
Description:	Detects QuasarRAT malware
Reference:	https://blog.ensilo.com/uncovering-new-activity-by-apt10

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

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

Rule name:	pe_imphash Create hunting rule

Rule name:	Pulsar_RAT Create hunting rule
Author:	@bartblaze
Description:	Identifies Pulsar RAT, based on Quasar RAT.
Reference:	https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.pulsar_rat

Rule name:	quasarrat Create hunting rule
Author:	jeFF0Falltrades

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

Rule name:	Skystars_Malware_Imphash Create hunting rule
Author:	Skystars LightDefender
Description:	imphash

Rule name:	SUSP_Script_PowerShell_Hidden_Launcher Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Script (JS/VBS) lancant PowerShell en mode furtif - dropper frais MalwareBazaar
Reference:	Veille fraicheur 2026-09-14 / cluster misses web

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)

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

Rule name:	VECT_Ransomware Create hunting rule
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:	VIGIA_QuasarRAT_38a5e4f4 Create hunting rule
Author:	VIG-IA - Cognitive Threat Intelligence System for Smart Territories and Tourism Sector
Description:	2652ae45-7df2-498a-987d-55c71b4b098d - QuasarRAT family indicators
Reference:	https://vigia.bisite.es/

Rule name:	VIGIA_QuasarRAT_7be5de16 Create hunting rule
Author:	VIG-IA - Cognitive Threat Intelligence System for Smart Territories and Tourism Sector
Description:	QuasarRAT-associated protobuf-net dependency indicators
Reference:	https://vigia.bisite.es/

Rule name:	VIGIA_QuasarRAT_80086d5b Create hunting rule
Author:	VIG-IA - Cognitive Threat Intelligence System for Smart Territories and Tourism Sector
Description:	QuasarRAT namespace, remote-control, and embedded dependency indicators
Reference:	https://vigia.bisite.es/

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

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_SalatStealer_ForgeAuto_542e717b Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects SalatStealer (pe, etat binaire)

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

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_Unknown_ForgeAuto_ce8c5b46 Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects Unknown (pe, etat binaire)

Rule name:	WIN_Malware_XWorm_ForgeAuto_6b06c990_Extrait Create hunting rule
Author:	Marjoriefort
Description:	Detects XWorm (pe, etat extrait)

File information

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

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/98802/

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