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Database Entry



Plugx


Vendor detections: 8


Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 35 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: eb5ca49b476448362c4c86af28fcabc3e9dc5953643a7ae40c9aa154da892444
SHA3-384 hash: 2c3feebab21692bb1925e40e6985ad85e8c7719e9a05f267b5665876776b17b526adbfca529100f3552cf4b242473c58
SHA1 hash: 5d09b826d8f346ee804c92dd1190d6fd17769abc
MD5 hash: ff3559a6a1a77ce1206c366ff1c97318
humanhash: stream-william-zulu-friend
File name:Installer.exe
Download: download sample
Signature Plugx
File size:64'886'628 bytes
First seen:2025-08-30 11:16:43 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Executable exe
MIME type:application/x-dosexec
imphash 6349935017fab6295626f276167fc0e5 (7 x Plugx, 1 x LummaStealer)
ssdeep 393216:igO1vAM4wCChmN4og3J0CzGFbyjCujm6KI46B5RVs+p+kQ2SR7rGvHvTUlAX6/N9:JO1/4wC/K+GOShrsxwbE9Ai
TLSH T168E75A42A6EB45D0F9F7AE7155F652274537BD066F3184CB620C1B2A5F332E08A73B22
TrID 61.4% (.EXE) Win32 EXE PECompact compressed (generic) (41569/9/9)
15.5% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10522/11/4)
7.4% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
6.6% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1)
2.9% (.EXE) OS/2 Executable (generic) (2029/13)
Magika pebin
dhash icon e8cc92ba868ecc70 (5 x Plugx, 1 x LummaStealer)
Reporter LukeFilewalker
Tags:exe infostealer Plugx

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
116
Origin country :
DE DE
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Result
Verdict:
Clean
Maliciousness:

Behaviour
DNS request
Connection attempt
Sending a custom TCP request
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
amadey amadey anti-debug base64 crypto expand fingerprint lolbin microsoft_visual_cc nexe oct overlay overlay packed plugx threat
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
exe x32
First seen:
2025-08-23T18:21:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2025-08-23T18:21:00Z UTC
Hits:
~1000
Gathering data
Threat name:
Win32.Malware.Generic
Status:
Suspicious
First seen:
2025-08-24 00:02:58 UTC
File Type:
PE (Exe)
Extracted files:
18
AV detection:
11 of 38 (28.95%)
Threat level:
  2/5
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  3/10
Tags:
discovery
Behaviour
Program crash
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Verdict:
Suspicious
Tags:
apt plugx
YARA:
malware_PlugX_config
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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:ach_202409_html_FedEx_phish
Author:abuse.ch
Description:Detects potential HTML FedEx phishing forms
Rule name:Agent_BTZ
Rule name:APT_Bitter_ZxxZ_Downloader
Author:SECUINFRA Falcon Team (@SI_FalconTeam)
Description:Detects Bitter (T-APT-17) ZxxZ Downloader
Reference:https://www.secuinfra.com/en/techtalk/whatever-floats-your-boat-bitter-apt-continues-to-target-bangladesh
Rule name:attack_India
Rule name:BLOWFISH_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for Blowfish constants
Rule name:botnet_plaintext_c2
Author:cip
Description:Attempts to match at least some of the strings used in some botnet variants which use plaintext communication protocols.
Rule name:Check_OutputDebugStringA_iat
Rule name:ComRAT
Rule name:CP_AllMal_Detector
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:CP_Script_Inject_Detector
Author:DiegoAnalytics
Description:Detects attempts to inject code into another process across PE, ELF, Mach-O binaries
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__API
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerCheck__QueryInfo
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DebuggerException__SetConsoleCtrl
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:golang_bin_JCorn_CSC846
Author:Justin Cornwell
Description:CSC-846 Golang detection ruleset
Rule name:ldpreload
Author:xorseed
Reference:https://stuff.rop.io/
Rule name:malware_PlugX_config
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:detect PlugX in memory
Reference:internal research
Rule name:MD5_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for MD5 constants
Rule name:Nexe
Author:nwunderly
Rule name:pe_detect_tls_callbacks
Rule name:PlugX
Author:JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group
Description:detect PlugX in memory
Reference:internal research
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:reverse_http
Author:CD_R0M_
Description:Identify strings with http reversed (ptth)
Rule name:RIPEMD160_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for RIPEMD-160 constants
Rule name:SEH__vectored
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:SHA1_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA1 constants
Rule name:SHA512_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for SHA384/SHA512 constants
Rule name:Sus_CMD_Powershell_Usage
Author:XiAnzheng
Description:May Contain(Obfuscated or no) Powershell or CMD Command that can be abused by threat actor(can create FP)
Rule name:Sus_Obf_Enc_Spoof_Hide_PE
Author:XiAnzheng
Description:Check for Overlay, Obfuscating, Encrypting, Spoofing, Hiding, or Entropy Technique(can create FP)
Rule name:test_Malaysia
Author:rectifyq
Description:Detects file containing malaysia string
Rule name:WHIRLPOOL_Constants
Author:phoul (@phoul)
Description:Look for WhirlPool constants
Rule name:win_amadey_bytecodes_oct_2023
Author:Matthew @ Embee_Research
Rule name:WIN_WebSocket_Base64_C2_20250726
Author:dogsafetyforeverone
Description:Detects configuration strings used by malware to specify WebSocket command-and-control endpoints inside Base64-encoded data. It looks for prefixes such as '#ws://' or '#wss://' that were found in QuasarRAT configuration data.
Rule name:without_attachments
Author:Antonio Sanchez <asanchez@hispasec.com>
Description:Rule to detect the no presence of any attachment
Reference:http://laboratorio.blogs.hispasec.com/
Rule name:with_urls
Author:Antonio Sanchez <asanchez@hispasec.com>
Description:Rule to detect the presence of an or several urls
Reference:http://laboratorio.blogs.hispasec.com/

File information


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

Web download

Plugx

Executable exe eb5ca49b476448362c4c86af28fcabc3e9dc5953643a7ae40c9aa154da892444

(this sample)

  
Dropping
github
  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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