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Database Entry



Smoke Loader


Vendor detections: 18


Intelligence 18 IOCs YARA 4 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: 9a23e3b2d894fb3af028f7bc2eae2da52c723eb2cc9b76a5d4efc98bdcba92a1
SHA3-384 hash: 18e190177ec16c78b5c1b95c8380acc611c17a6c17afd4a8d8c2a56243b4edbd653960adfbea129a5805b16937a8b537
SHA1 hash: 3e5bc795da457140b935e2dfef6b31dc7ea0dd2f
MD5 hash: 95347c196bf97d1a7fbd7461d42898be
humanhash: ink-nine-green-connecticut
File name:95347c196bf97d1a7fbd7461d42898be.exe
Download: download sample
Signature Smoke Loader
File size:221'184 bytes
First seen:2024-09-06 07:27:06 UTC
Last seen:2024-09-06 08:32:00 UTC
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash 371f652fdd8e6836c241a37f6252659c (1 x Stealc, 1 x GCleaner, 1 x Smoke Loader)
ssdeep 3072:ct7l9Bx/d/vBKjcEb+tvDq3KbPw5BeHeCd/Bbga9//qqWo:OBx/d/vBKjcFusPkw+KWgqq
TLSH T195247C00BAE6D026EDA747345A30F7A15E3ABCF2EE7D818F32547A1F19736D08915722
TrID 47.3% (.EXE) Win32 Executable MS Visual C++ (generic) (31206/45/13)
15.9% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10523/12/4)
9.9% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2)
7.6% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
6.8% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1)
Magika pebin
File icon (PE):PE icon
dhash icon 0010344264240000 (1 x Smoke Loader)
Reporter abuse_ch
Tags:exe Smoke Loader

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
2
# of downloads :
449
Origin country :
NL NL
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Malware family:
n/a
ID:
1
File name:
95347c196bf97d1a7fbd7461d42898be.exe
Verdict:
Malicious activity
Analysis date:
2024-09-06 08:00:20 UTC
Tags:
loader smokeloader

Note:
ANY.RUN is an interactive sandbox that analyzes all user actions rather than an uploaded sample
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
93.3%
Tags:
Variant
Result
Verdict:
Malware
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
Searching for the window
Сreating synchronization primitives
Creating a file in the %AppData% directory
Enabling the 'hidden' option for recently created files
DNS request
Connection attempt
Sending an HTTP POST request
Unauthorized injection to a system process
Enabling autorun by creating a file
Verdict:
Likely Malicious
Threat level:
  7.5/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
babar epmicrosoft_visual_cc fingerprint microsoft_visual_cc packed smokeloader
Result
Verdict:
MALICIOUS
Details
Windows PE Executable
Found a Windows Portable Executable (PE) binary. Depending on context, the presence of a binary is suspicious or malicious.
Result
Threat name:
SmokeLoader
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
troj.evad
Score:
100 / 100
Signature
AI detected suspicious sample
Benign windows process drops PE files
C2 URLs / IPs found in malware configuration
Checks if the current machine is a virtual machine (disk enumeration)
Creates a thread in another existing process (thread injection)
Deletes itself after installation
Detected unpacking (changes PE section rights)
Found malware configuration
Hides that the sample has been downloaded from the Internet (zone.identifier)
Machine Learning detection for dropped file
Machine Learning detection for sample
Malicious sample detected (through community Yara rule)
Maps a DLL or memory area into another process
Multi AV Scanner detection for dropped file
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Suricata IDS alerts for network traffic
Switches to a custom stack to bypass stack traces
Tries to detect sandboxes and other dynamic analysis tools (process name or module or function)
Yara detected SmokeLoader
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Threat name:
Win32.Trojan.GCleaner
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2024-09-03 10:33:08 UTC
File Type:
PE (Exe)
Extracted files:
51
AV detection:
21 of 24 (87.50%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Verdict:
malicious
Result
Malware family:
smokeloader
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:smokeloader botnet:pub1 backdoor discovery trojan
Behaviour
Checks SCSI registry key(s)
Program crash
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
SmokeLoader
Verdict:
Suspicious
Tags:
n/a
YARA:
n/a
Unpacked files
SH256 hash:
9a23e3b2d894fb3af028f7bc2eae2da52c723eb2cc9b76a5d4efc98bdcba92a1
MD5 hash:
95347c196bf97d1a7fbd7461d42898be
SHA1 hash:
3e5bc795da457140b935e2dfef6b31dc7ea0dd2f
Malware family:
SmokeLoader
Verdict:
Malicious
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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:DebuggerCheck__API
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerHiding__Active
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

File information


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

Web download

Smoke Loader

Executable exe 9a23e3b2d894fb3af028f7bc2eae2da52c723eb2cc9b76a5d4efc98bdcba92a1

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

BLint


The following table provides more information about this file using BLint. BLint is a Binary Linter to check the security properties, and capabilities in executables.

Findings
IDTitleSeverity
CHECK_AUTHENTICODEMissing Authenticodehigh
CHECK_DLL_CHARACTERISTICSMissing dll Security Characteristics (HIGH_ENTROPY_VA)high
CHECK_NXMissing Non-Executable Memory Protectioncritical
CHECK_PIEMissing Position-Independent Executable (PIE) Protectionhigh
Reviews
IDCapabilitiesEvidence
WIN32_PROCESS_APICan Create Process and ThreadsKERNEL32.dll::CloseHandle
WIN_BASE_APIUses Win Base APIKERNEL32.dll::TerminateProcess
KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryW
KERNEL32.dll::LoadLibraryA
KERNEL32.dll::GetStartupInfoA
KERNEL32.dll::GetStartupInfoW
KERNEL32.dll::GetCommandLineA
WIN_BASE_EXEC_APICan Execute other programsKERNEL32.dll::WriteConsoleOutputW
KERNEL32.dll::WriteConsoleW
KERNEL32.dll::SetConsoleMode
KERNEL32.dll::SetConsoleTitleA
KERNEL32.dll::SetStdHandle
KERNEL32.dll::GetConsoleAliasesLengthA
KERNEL32.dll::GetConsoleAliasExesLengthW
KERNEL32.dll::GetConsoleCP
KERNEL32.dll::GetConsoleMode
WIN_BASE_IO_APICan Create FilesKERNEL32.dll::CopyFileExA
KERNEL32.dll::CreateDirectoryW
KERNEL32.dll::CreateFileW
WIN_BASE_USER_APIRetrieves Account InformationKERNEL32.dll::GetComputerNameA
KERNEL32.dll::GetComputerNameW
KERNEL32.dll::QueryDosDeviceW

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