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Database Entry

DarkCloud

Vendor detections: 19

Intelligence 19 IOCs YARA 24 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e
SHA3-384 hash:	e7b0866906c3ec9cbe7b3ddf2e2abf8dcc738cba8b9dcc86c1ede49d7fdd970f523ddfb567bd7485ce12b13f772ea5bf
SHA1 hash:	73c4428bacfa3a4ade1debf532c0173a7aad325d
MD5 hash:	13492417dd4c7ff8a70245699eabf570
humanhash:	nineteen-happy-hawaii-sweet
File name:	SecuriteInfo.com.Trojan.PackedNET.3416.1415.1480
Download:	download sample
Signature	DarkCloud Create hunting rule
File size:	1'008'136 bytes
First seen:	2025-09-25 15:41:55 UTC
Last seen:	2025-09-25 16:44:10 UTC
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/x-dosexec
imphash	f34d5f2d4577ed6d9ceec516c1f5a744 (48'652 x AgentTesla, 19'463 x Formbook, 12'204 x SnakeKeylogger)
ssdeep	24576:XC7RY65Rxj/KGQVDdo3X1HLC20FQAzAFAJQ:XC7S65zYVhcgxFQAzACJQ
Threatray	337 similar samples on MalwareBazaar
TLSH	T174251259126AF503D4A51BF009B0D73E97366ED4E819E2524FFBBCEF7825B802C52287
TrID	71.1% (.EXE) Generic CIL Executable (.NET, Mono, etc.) (73123/4/13) 10.2% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10522/11/4) 6.3% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2) 4.3% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1) 2.0% (.ICL) Windows Icons Library (generic) (2059/9)
Magika	pebin
Reporter	SecuriteInfoCom
Tags:	DarkCloud exe

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

140

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware family:

n/a

ID:

File name:

HEZ.exe

Verdict:

Malicious activity

Analysis date:

2025-09-25 15:19:36 UTC

Tags:

darkcloud auto-sch-xml

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/44dc41e6-5096-4f21-8653-b2a35af4153f

Note:

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

Detection:

A310Logger

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/29052/

Detection(s):

SecuriteInfo.com.Trojan.PackedNET.3416.1415.1480.UNOFFICIAL

Verdict:

Malicious

Score:

92.5%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=68d562f3cc9425144151ea88

Tags:

micro spawn shell

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Creating a window

Сreating synchronization primitives

Creating a file in the %AppData% directory

Enabling the 'hidden' option for recently created files

Adding an access-denied ACE

Creating a process with a hidden window

Creating a file in the %temp% directory

Sending a custom TCP request

Launching a process

Creating a file

Using the Windows Management Instrumentation requests

Adding an exclusion to Microsoft Defender

Enabling autorun by creating a file

Unauthorized injection to a system process

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat level:

10/10

Confidence:

100%

Tags:

invalid-signature obfuscated packed packed packer_detected signed vbnet

Link:

https://www.filescan.io/uploads/68d5635974e5a2898993352d/reports/3595c550-bd46-46b5-a57c-93e0c9afd397/overview

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Genie.8DN.Generic

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

exe x32

First seen:

2025-09-25T05:53:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2025-09-25T05:53:00Z UTC

Hits:

~100

Detections:

Trojan-PSW.Win32.DarkCloud.sb Trojan-Banker.Win32.Express.sb Trojan.MSIL.Crypt.sb Trojan-Spy.Agent.SMTP.C&C PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic Trojan-PSW.Win32.Stelega.sb Trojan-PSW.Win32.Stealer.sb Trojan.MSIL.Taskun.sb Trojan.MSIL.Inject.sb HEUR:Trojan.MSIL.Taskun.sb HEUR:Trojan-Spy.MSIL.Noon.gen NetTool.PlainTextCredentials.SMTP.C&C VHO:Trojan-Banker.Win32.Express.gen

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e/results?tab=lookup

Malware family:

DarkCloud

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/027ce23d-abd8-4d71-9153-2e39436f0b69

Score:

98%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e

Verdict:

inconclusive

YARA:

10 match(es)

Tags:

.Net Executable Managed .NET PDB Path PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout SOS: 0.51 Win 32 Exe x86

Link:

https://app.malva.re/file/13492417dd4c7ff8a70245699eabf570

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e/

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat:

Family.DARKCLOUD

Link:

https://tip.neiki.dev/file/a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e

Threat name:

ByteCode-MSIL.Trojan.Taskun

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2025-09-25 09:13:05 UTC

File Type:

PE (.Net Exe)

Extracted files:

AV detection:

19 of 24 (79.17%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Suspicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=u6ffosuocghl3ypsdy7jj7ijbl33ef3rw3ttihn3cip7smmtuspa._file

Verdict:

malicious

Label(s):

darkcloudstealer

unc_loader_037

DarkCloud

94ab584f2783aceea12fa27325cf6a3398c37d0d0404b42526e9106d92556cc8

DarkCloud

a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e

DarkCloud

b5def5a71c2c8f07fa30379346fdd97c89bc77f8fbd5200bc41a3bb13ce4ee4c

DarkCloud

c5e1683a015a9b48ed1cfc4d133f0477dd1ad0be481cb18be360e035436d84b2

DarkCloud

error

DarkCloud

fdc4f6f01f98760794e04c00c6d9f2cd2332cbd7569c87663302c4deeb8a2e47

DarkCloud

+ 327 additional samples on MalwareBazaar

Result

Malware family:

darkcloud

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:darkcloud discovery execution persistence stealer

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/250925-s6m55acm6z/

Behaviour

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Enumerates physical storage devices

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

Checks computer location settings

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

DarkCloud

Darkcloud family

Verdict:

Malicious

Tags:

n/a

YARA:

n/a

Link:

https://app.threat.zone/submission/9b2da264-bcd9-4c78-8d79-9b5933339419

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e

MD5 hash:

13492417dd4c7ff8a70245699eabf570

SHA1 hash:

73c4428bacfa3a4ade1debf532c0173a7aad325d

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/e56e3ac7-f652-46fb-b742-15f9726aab7a/

SH256 hash:

6b9059aee82059173a41daa43bbecf778997ae9143f9f61b88826f6cca6ca6f8

MD5 hash:

e368d6ab43dea4170c69795f1e0100b6

SHA1 hash:

24808a4f3c65aeb29bd1137752cc954e5412f8d3

Detections:

darkcloudstealer

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_Binary_References_Browsers

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Confidential_Data_Store

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Messaging_Clients

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_SQLQuery_ConfidentialDataStore

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_TelegramChatBot

INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_CC_Regex

MALWARE_Win_A310Logger

MALWARE_Win_DarkCloud

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/e56e3ac7-f652-46fb-b742-15f9726aab7a/

Parent samples :

72c644728850c6741c033d774ec5f1076faf5feaccca17b80b7f3f7817331566
b5def5a71c2c8f07fa30379346fdd97c89bc77f8fbd5200bc41a3bb13ce4ee4c
a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e
1b577905b20c063221293905fd2b20020742c24f2ef2e9b5231cd3d0e8534022
39a057a617ce14e97254492d8f5cdcac6d8502bb3afd578d5e59f84c757f5728
680b970286f2498ccaeb886d8b0a80194ca0e877ae64732b40989e30d836b215
0cc3c074aa5669e33c1abd322e74ad343beec2f0fe00c49123913c497daea1f7
2c2d25a172f507ebb2b0f827ea5a73e5270dbec25c00adecac3bd3bd7e0799bd
da957a6c7634511d1469f0b827a678f3c5e6ad8c46ba10a02e707a20836d7b0c

SH256 hash:

d728778b19200f32289ce32e553b778bca69cc98f00f05960c1d4ee334d4a346

MD5 hash:

1867c63e334d17005cf595473f13aa6a

SHA1 hash:

d72249304e0b180f1530736f3f36fdf4bbaa0c26

Detections:

SUSP_OBF_NET_ConfuserEx_Name_Pattern_Jan24

SUSP_OBF_NET_Reactor_Indicators_Jan24

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/e56e3ac7-f652-46fb-b742-15f9726aab7a/

SH256 hash:

3a8235adcf5c014204b3c7f9bc74cdc5628617fbca4edfd0a89e61bd368598d3

MD5 hash:

805ed8b902bad1be7788a1f25a33f7c1

SHA1 hash:

d7c02f99910d58990504e561694d74e90fd872c5

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/e56e3ac7-f652-46fb-b742-15f9726aab7a/

Malware family:

DarkCloud

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/a78a574a8e11/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/a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e

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:	CP_AllMal_Detector Create hunting rule
Author:	DiegoAnalytics
Description:	CrossPlatform All Malwares Detector: Detect PE, ELF, Mach-O, scripts, archives; overlay, obfuscation, encryption, spoofing, hiding, high entropy, network communication

Rule name:	darkcloud_stealer Create hunting rule
Author:	Michelle Khalil
Description:	This rule detects unpacked darkcloud malware samples.

Rule name:	DetectEncryptedVariants Create hunting rule
Author:	Zinyth
Description:	Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded

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

Rule name:	INDICATOR_KB_CERT_7c1118cbbadc95da3752c46e47a27438 Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables signed with stolen, revoked or invalid certificates

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_CC_Regex Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables referencing credit card regular expressions

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Confidential_Data_Store Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables referencing many confidential data stores found in browsers, mail clients, cryptocurreny wallets, etc. Observed in information stealers

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_References_Messaging_Clients Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables referencing many email and collaboration clients. 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:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_EXE_TelegramChatBot Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables using Telegram Chat Bot

Rule name:	MALWARE_Win_A310Logger Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects A310Logger

Rule name:	MALWARE_Win_DarkCloud Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects DarkCloud infostealer

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

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

Rule name:	PE_Digital_Certificate Create hunting rule
Author:	albertzsigovits

Rule name:	pe_imphash Create hunting rule

Rule name:	ProtectSharewareV11eCompservCMS Create hunting rule
Author:	malware-lu

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

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

Rule name:	telegram_bot_api Create hunting rule
Author:	rectifyq
Description:	Detects file containing Telegram Bot API

Rule name:	Windows_Trojan_DarkCloud_9905abce 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.

Web download

DarkCloud

exe a78a574a8e118ebde1f21e3e94fd090af7b21771b6e7341dbb121ff93193a49e

(this sample)

URLhaus

https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/url/3631851/

Delivery method

Distributed via web download

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/29052/

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