HanGhost (Malware Family)

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HanGhost

According to ANY.RUN, this is a multi-staged loader that uses in-memory loaded .NET assembly code to download a PNG, from which the payload to be delivered is extracted.

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2026-04-13 ⋅ khr0x
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