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Database Entry

QuasarRAT

Vendor detections: 20

Intelligence 20 IOCs YARA 29 File information Comments 1

SHA256 hash:	aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5
SHA3-384 hash:	229ba04906cbe5f474993c0fb6a5befb22d2f978687cdc4ae9431b0834a60e55dd869aa3884b59e923802bb5ae62404d
SHA1 hash:	d8af070b0c1cdc5aaa5f18de1adc2cd2bf86b4da
MD5 hash:	12b25574a74229739cfc466265a80b38
humanhash:	oxygen-helium-yellow-avocado
File name:	weathernova.exe
Download:	download sample
Signature	QuasarRAT Create hunting rule
File size:	3'266'560 bytes
First seen:	2026-06-04 06:20:50 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	exe
MIME type:	application/x-dosexec
imphash	f34d5f2d4577ed6d9ceec516c1f5a744 (49'013 x AgentTesla, 19'919 x Formbook, 12'332 x SnakeKeylogger)
ssdeep	49152:Svust2zlaWX6bPmlccBGyQxE3fBCP/OBxHQoGdMTHHB72eh2NT:Sv/t2zlaWX6bPmlccB3QxE3fo/N
Threatray	2'318 similar samples on MalwareBazaar
TLSH	T101E56B0437F85E33E56BD2B3D5B05022A3F1E82AF363EB1B519167BE1C53B5488426A7
TrID	60.7% (.EXE) Generic CIL Executable (.NET, Mono, etc.) (73123/4/13) 13.7% (.EXE) Microsoft Visual C++ compiled executable (generic) (16529/12/5) 5.4% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2) 5.4% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (6522/11/2) 4.1% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
Magika	pebin
Reporter	Anonymous
Tags:	exe keylogger Quasar QuasarRAT RAT spyware

Anonymous

Quasar RAT v1.4.1 masquerading as a weather app. Exhibits keylogging, persistence and C2 communication via port 443. Botnet group: WeatherNova.

Intelligence

File Origin

# of uploads :

# of downloads :

142

Origin country :

Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware configuration found for:

QuasarRAT

Details

QuasarRAT

c2 socket addresses, a version, a mutex, AES-CBC decryption parameters, a missionid, an interval, varying flags, a filepath, an installation registry path and scheduled task name, and possibly additional parameters which vary per version

Link:

https://research.acce.ciphertechsolutions.com/results/a8032c73-8b83-4d44-af22-7a58290e82a5/

Malware family:

quasar

ID:

File name:

weathernova.exe

Verdict:

Malicious activity

Analysis date:

2026-06-04 05:51:59 UTC

Tags:

auto-reg quasar

Link:

https://app.any.run/tasks/79a345ff-6df8-423c-b573-e9f9807af2e4

Note:

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

Detection:

QuasarRAT

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/68946/

Detection(s):

Win.Malware.Generic-9883083-0

Win.Malware.Msilheracles-9900242-0

ditekSHen.MALWARE.Win.Trojan.QuasarStealer.UNOFFICIAL

Win.Packed.Downeks-6898097-0

YARA.DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Quasarstealer.UNOFFICIAL

YARA.SIGNATURE_BASE_MAL_Quasarrat_May19_1.UNOFFICIAL

Verdict:

Malicious

Score:

99.9%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=6a21127d57b7bf261d60c031

Tags:

infosteal autorun quasar

Result

Verdict:

Malware

Maliciousness:

Behaviour

Creating a window

Сreating synchronization primitives

Creating a file in the %AppData% subdirectories

Launching a process

Creating a process from a recently created file

Creating a file

DNS request

Connection attempt

Sending a custom TCP request

Setting a keyboard event handler

Creating a file in the %temp% directory

Running batch commands

Creating a process with a hidden window

Unauthorized injection to a recently created process

Enabling autorun by creating a file

Verdict:

Malicious

Labled as:

Win/malicious_confidence_100%

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

exe x32

First seen:

2026-06-04T03:25:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-06-04T08:33:00Z UTC

Hits:

~100

Detections:

Trojan.Win32.Quasar.sb Trojan.MSIL.Quasar.a Trojan-PSW.Win32.Stealer.sb Trojan-PSW.MSIL.Agent.sb HEUR:Trojan.MSIL.Quasar.gen HEUR:Trojan-Spy.MSIL.Agent.sb PDM:Trojan.Win32.Tasker.cust PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5/results?tab=lookup

Malware family:

Quasar RAT

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://analyze.intezer.com/analyses/81525e76-9f07-4d7d-ba1c-a37b01cfe055

Score:

99%

Verdict:

Malware

File Type:

Link:

https://malprob.io/report/aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5

Gathering data

Detection:

quasar

Link:

https://mwdb.cert.pl/sample/aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5/

Verdict:

Malicious

Threat:

Family.QUASARRAT

Link:

https://tip.neiki.dev/file/aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5

Threat name:

ByteCode-MSIL.Backdoor.Quasar

Status:

Malicious

First seen:

2026-06-04 05:52:14 UTC

File Type:

PE (.Net Exe)

Extracted files:

AV detection:

27 of 36 (75.00%)

Threat level:

5/5

Detection(s):

Malicious file

Link:

https://check.spamhaus.org/check/?searchterm=vlpokcapjmpwruztzfx625n7hup4ftfxezemh5tv2kfldtvkal2q._file

Verdict:

malicious

Label(s):

quasarrat

QuasarRAT

0985d2bd933aa5585e6454304a80ad2f32f8814d1d14add558038e033b482bdc

QuasarRAT

6d18b4d77e47730827db5db6476171eecaaa41794b2e7ae3947c0310603deff7

QuasarRAT

af9c255e0ddd0fc5952840efca25a1e103c3e25d5d6cb1a4361dbd2d61c512cb

QuasarRAT

error

QuasarRAT

+ 2'308 additional samples on MalwareBazaar

Result

Malware family:

quasar

Score:

10/10

Tags:

family:quasar botnet:weathernova discovery execution persistence spyware trojan

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260604-g4qyfsby8m/

Behaviour

Runs ping.exe

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

Enumerates physical storage devices

System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery

Checks computer location settings

Executes dropped EXE

Family: Quasar RAT

Quasar payload

Malware Config

C2 Extraction:

hitclub.ac:443
nhyouthclimatetownhall.com:443
mansionbet.com:443
Fun88kyc.com:443
contact.hitclub.ac:443
contact.nhyouthclimatetownhall.com:443
contact.mansionbet.com:443
contact.Fun88kyc.com:443

Unpacked files

SH256 hash:

aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5

MD5 hash:

12b25574a74229739cfc466265a80b38

SHA1 hash:

d8af070b0c1cdc5aaa5f18de1adc2cd2bf86b4da

Detections:

QuasarRAT

Link:

https://www.unpac.me/results/a45cc758-a666-4f25-a031-4cb344c729a9/

Malware family:

QuasarRAT

Verdict:

Malicious

Link:

https://www.vmray.com/analyses/_mb/aadee5080f4b/report/overview.html

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

Threat name:

iSpy Keylogger

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/aadee5080f4b1f68d333c96fed75bf3d1fc2ccb72648c3f675d28ab1ceaa02f5

YARA Signatures

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Rule name:	BLOWFISH_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for Blowfish constants

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

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_NoneWindowsUA Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects Windows executables referencing non-Windows User-Agents

Rule name:	INDICATOR_SUSPICIOUS_GENInfoStealer Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects executables containing common artifacts observed in infostealers

Rule name:	Lumma_Stealer_Detection Create hunting rule
Author:	ashizZz
Description:	Detects a specific Lumma Stealer malware sample using unique strings and behaviors
Reference:	https://seanthegeek.net/posts/compromized-store-spread-lumma-stealer-using-fake-captcha/

Rule name:	MALWARE_Win_QuasarStealer Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekshen
Description:	Detects Quasar infostealer

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:	MD5_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	phoul (@phoul)
Description:	Look for MD5 constants

Rule name:	Multifamily_RAT_Detection Create hunting rule
Author:	Lucas Acha (http://www.lukeacha.com)
Description:	Generic Detection for multiple RAT families, PUPs, Packers and suspicious executables

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:	quasarrat Create hunting rule
Author:	jeFF0Falltrades

Rule name:	quasarrat_kingrat Create hunting rule
Author:	jeFF0Falltrades

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

Rule name:	RC6_Constants Create hunting rule
Author:	chort (@chort0)
Description:	Look for RC6 magic constants in binary
Reference:	https://twitter.com/mikko/status/417620511397400576

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

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

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:	Windows_Generic_Threat_803feff4 Create hunting rule
Author:	Elastic Security

Rule name:	win_quasar_rat_client Create hunting rule
Author:	Matthew @ Embee_Research
Description:	Detects strings present in Quasar Rat Samples.

File information

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

Link

https://www.uncoverit.org/results/dbb503970e4f3d08d41ec1dd5352972e4d0380e10190be9cec128413777292a2

Dropping

QuasarRAT

Delivery method

Other

Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/68946/

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commented on 2026-06-04 06:26:15 UTC

RAT King Parser (https://github.com/jeFF0Falltrades/rat_king_parser) Output:

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"yara_possible_family": "quasarrat",
"key": "e83582dc017315638a42e0f90fa558e040f0ddee12243d3ce1e9c0e7c6de84ad",
"salt": "bfeb1e56fbcd973bb219022430a57843003d5644d21e62b9d4f180e7e6c33941",
"config": {
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"obfuscated_key_2": "hitclub.ac:443;nhyouthclimatetownhall.com:443;mansionbet.com:443;Fun88kyc.com:443;contact.hitclub.ac:443;contact.nhyouthclimatetownhall.com:443;contact.mansionbet.com:443;contact.Fun88kyc.com:443;",
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"obfuscated_key_4": "APPLICATIONDATA",
"obfuscated_key_5": "WeatherNova",
"obfuscated_key_6": "weathernova.exe",
"obfuscated_key_7": true,
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"obfuscated_key_11": false,
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"obfuscated_key_15": "Logs",
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"obfuscated_key_21": "",
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}
}