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Database Entry

SalatStealer

Vendor detections: 12

Intelligence 12 IOCs YARA 59 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016
SHA3-384 hash:	ab417e7025ce7b20ed6337c8187443f1e198834f2b91705c98a72930700df7ff962c5372ca67d3f3a75e39ac4ebf3679
SHA1 hash:	2d1aa7530f1b2ea308c401c9e23fc3b6101c7541
MD5 hash:	77a6f984f7ef73a8718d5c12264aba8c
humanhash:	nineteen-cat-princess-sad
File name:	help-tgds.exe
Download:	download sample
Signature	SalatStealer Create hunting rule
File size:	10'678'272 bytes
First seen:	2026-09-17 15:59:04 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/x-dosexec
imphash	d42595b695fc008ef2c56aabd8efd68e (1'393 x Vidar, 331 x RemusStealer, 134 x Stealc)
ssdeep	98304:I611mB8KBAr3sXRPkRHvudJqTIbitLoGOrE/4+ZR7VCnCR+dxKVtJE:IJB8WArchPkRPPIQbOrn+Zr8cVtK
TLSH	T196B69D47FCA515E8C0AAD2358A669253BB717C484B2523D32F90F7382F76BD06EB9740
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	Alex_sev
Tags:	exe salat SalatStealer

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

139

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

No detections

Malware family:

n/a

ID:

File name:

exe

Verdict:

Malicious activity

Analysis date:

2026-09-17 16:40:56 UTC

Tags:

salatstealer stealer susp-powershell golang upx

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/0f6e431b-d793-474c-a59d-eb2b07499f80

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/86238/

Verdict:

Likely Malicious

Threat level:

7.5/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

anti-vm base64 crypto expand go golang lolbin packed

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/6aac0e542291714d9ea09753/reports/3bfef240-d23f-46f3-b3e1-ed46c38b0769/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Win/malicious_confidence_60%

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

exe x64

First seen:

2026-09-17T09:35:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-09-17T12:50:00Z UTC

Hits:

~10

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016/results?tab=lookup

Verdict:

Suspicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/8b19b938-a45c-4164-82bb-8dd656624f3d

Score:

63%

Verdict:

Susipicious

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016

Gathering data

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016/

Gathering data

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=uqwy2lv3ts5cwttfvatgr2hq63biqoyg5ozebxprl2o7qoplwala._file

Verdict:

malicious

Label(s):

SalatStealer

Link:

https://reports.threatray.com/6fcc63dd-7a6e-47e8-a2bb-a1814b7ecb85

Result

Malware family:

salatstealer

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:salatstealer discovery execution stealer upx

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260917-te7acsshph/

Behaviour

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

UPX packed file

Executes dropped EXE

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Detect SalatStealer payload

Family: salatstealer

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016

MD5 hash:

77a6f984f7ef73a8718d5c12264aba8c

SHA1 hash:

2d1aa7530f1b2ea308c401c9e23fc3b6101c7541

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/2b570bae-32b1-49b7-859e-605f7c9669a8/

Malware family:

SalatStealer

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/a42d8d2ebb9c/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/a42d8d2ebb9cba2b4e65a82668e8f0f6c2883b06ebb240ddf15e9df839ebb016

YARA Signatures

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

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_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:	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/

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

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/86238/

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