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win.quasar_rat (Back to overview)

Quasar RAT

aka: CinaRAT, QuasarRAT, Yggdrasil

Actor(s): APT33, Dropping Elephant, Stone Panda, The Gorgon Group

VTCollection     URLhaus        

Quasar RAT is a malware family written in .NET which is used by a variety of attackers. The malware is fully functional and open source, and is often packed to make analysis of the source more difficult.

References
2024-07-09SpamhausSpamhaus Malware Labs
Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update January to June 2024
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2024-04-11Github (jeFF0Falltrades)Jeff Archer
Rat King Configuration Parser
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2024-01-25JSAC 2024Masafumi Takeda, Tomoya Furukawa
Threat Intelligence of Abused Public Post-Exploitation Frameworks
AsyncRAT DCRat Empire Downloader GRUNT Havoc Koadic Merlin PoshC2 Quasar RAT Sliver
2024-01-15DFIR.chStephan Berger
Hunting AsyncRAT & QuasarRAT
AsyncRAT Quasar RAT
2024-01-12SpamhausSpamhaus Malware Labs
Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update Q4 2023
FluBot Hook FAKEUPDATES AsyncRAT BianLian Cobalt Strike DCRat Havoc IcedID Lumma Stealer Meterpreter NjRAT Pikabot QakBot Quasar RAT RecordBreaker RedLine Stealer Remcos Rhadamanthys Sliver
2024-01-08YouTube (Embee Research)Embee_research
Malware Analysis - Powershell decoding and .NET C2 Extraction (Quasar RAT)
Quasar RAT
2023-10-12SpamhausSpamhaus Malware Labs
Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update Q3 2023
FluBot AsyncRAT Ave Maria Cobalt Strike DCRat Havoc IcedID ISFB Nanocore RAT NjRAT QakBot Quasar RAT RecordBreaker RedLine Stealer Remcos Rhadamanthys Sliver Stealc Tofsee Vidar
2023-09-08Gi7w0rm
Uncovering DDGroup — A long-time threat actor
AsyncRAT Ave Maria BitRAT DBatLoader NetWire RC Quasar RAT XWorm
2023-07-11SpamhausSpamhaus Malware Labs
Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update Q2 2023
Hydra AsyncRAT Aurora Stealer Ave Maria BumbleBee Cobalt Strike DCRat Havoc IcedID ISFB NjRAT QakBot Quasar RAT RecordBreaker RedLine Stealer Remcos Rhadamanthys Sliver Tofsee
2023-06-08Twitter (@embee_research)Embee_research
Practical Queries for Identifying Malware Infrastructure: An informal page for storing Censys/Shodan queries
Amadey AsyncRAT Cobalt Strike QakBot Quasar RAT Sliver solarmarker
2023-05-15embeeresearchEmbee_research
Quasar Rat Analysis - Identification of 64 Quasar Servers Using Shodan and Censys
Quasar RAT
2023-04-13OALabsSergei Frankoff
Quasar Chaos: Open Source Ransomware Meets Open Source RAT
Chaos Quasar RAT
2023-03-30loginsoftSaharsh Agrawal
From Innocence to Malice: The OneNote Malware Campaign Uncovered
Agent Tesla AsyncRAT DOUBLEBACK Emotet Formbook IcedID NetWire RC QakBot Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer XWorm
2023-02-24ZscalerAvinash Kumar, Niraj Shivtarkar
Snip3 Crypter Reveals New TTPs Over Time
DCRat Quasar RAT
2023-01-05SymantecThreat Hunter Team
Bluebottle: Campaign Hits Banks in French-speaking Countries in Africa
CloudEyE Cobalt Strike MimiKatz NetWire RC POORTRY Quasar RAT BlueBottle
2022-09-13SymantecThreat Hunter Team
New Wave of Espionage Activity Targets Asian Governments
MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT ShadowPad Trochilus RAT
2022-08-18SophosSean Gallagher
Cookie stealing: the new perimeter bypass
Cobalt Strike Meterpreter MimiKatz Phoenix Keylogger Quasar RAT
2022-07-29QualysViren Chaudhari
New Qualys Research Report: Evolution of Quasar RAT
Quasar RAT
2022-07-27QualysViren Chaudhari
Stealthy Quasar Evolving to Lead the RAT Race
Quasar RAT
2022-07-13WeixinAntiy CERT
Confucius: The Angler Hidden Under CloudFlare
Quasar RAT
2022-06-23SecureworksCounter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
BRONZE STARLIGHT Ransomware Operations Use HUI Loader
ATOMSILO Cobalt Strike HUI Loader LockFile NightSky Pandora PlugX Quasar RAT Rook SodaMaster BRONZE STARLIGHT
2022-06-02FortiGuard LabsFred Gutierrez, Gergely Revay, James Slaughter, Shunichi Imano
Threat Actors Prey on Eager Travelers
AsyncRAT NetWire RC Quasar RAT
2022-05-19BlackberryThe BlackBerry Research & Intelligence Team
.NET Stubs: Sowing the Seeds of Discord
Agent Tesla Quasar RAT WhisperGate
2022-05-19BlackberryThe BlackBerry Research & Intelligence Team
.NET Stubs: Sowing the Seeds of Discord (PureCrypter)
Aberebot AbstractEmu AdoBot 404 Keylogger Agent Tesla Amadey AsyncRAT Ave Maria BitRAT BluStealer Formbook LimeRAT Loki Password Stealer (PWS) Nanocore RAT Orcus RAT Quasar RAT Raccoon RedLine Stealer WhisperGate
2022-05-16JPCERT/CCShusei Tomonaga
Analysis of HUI Loader
HUI Loader PlugX Poison Ivy Quasar RAT
2022-05-12MorphisecHido Cohen
New SYK Crypter Distributed Via Discord
AsyncRAT Ave Maria Nanocore RAT NjRAT Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer
2022-04-27Trend MicroDaniel Lunghi, Jaromír Hořejší
New APT Group Earth Berberoka Targets Gambling Websites With Old and New Malware
HelloBot AsyncRAT Ghost RAT HelloBot PlugX Quasar RAT Earth Berberoka
2022-04-27TrendmicroDaniel Lunghi, Jaromír Hořejší
Operation Gambling Puppet
reptile oRAT AsyncRAT Cobalt Strike DCRat Ghost RAT PlugX Quasar RAT Trochilus RAT Earth Berberoka
2022-04-27TrendmicroTrendmicro
IOCs for Earth Berberoka - Windows
AsyncRAT Cobalt Strike PlugX Quasar RAT Earth Berberoka
2022-03-24Lab52freyit
Another cyber espionage campaign in the Russia-Ukrainian ongoing cyber attacks
Quasar RAT
2022-03-05Bleeping ComputerLawrence Abrams
Malware now using NVIDIA's stolen code signing certificates
Quasar RAT
2022-02-22CyCraft Technology Corp
China Implicated in Prolonged Supply Chain Attack Targeting Taiwan Financial Sector
Quasar RAT
2022-02-21CyCraftCyCraft AI
An in-depth analysis of the Operation Cache Panda organized supply chain attack on Taiwan's financial industry
Quasar RAT
2022-02-21The RecordCatalin Cimpanu
Chinese hackers linked to months-long attack on Taiwanese financial sector
Quasar RAT
2022-02-11blog.rootshell.beXavier Mertens
[SANS ISC] CinaRAT Delivered Through HTML ID Attributes
Quasar RAT
2022-02-08Intel 471Intel 471
PrivateLoader: The first step in many malware schemes
Dridex Kronos LockBit Nanocore RAT NjRAT PrivateLoader Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer Remcos SmokeLoader STOP Tofsee TrickBot Vidar
2022-02-08ASECASEC
Distribution of Kimsuky Group’s xRAT (Quasar RAT) Confirmed
GoldDragon Quasar RAT
2022-01-08Bleeping ComputerLawrence Abrams
Trojanized dnSpy app drops malware cocktail on researchers, devs
Quasar RAT
2021-12-14Trend MicroNick Dai, Ted Lee, Vickie Su
Collecting In the Dark: Tropic Trooper Targets Transportation and Government
ChiserClient Ghost RAT Lilith Quasar RAT xPack APT23
2021-10-19Cisco TalosAsheer Malhotra
Malicious campaign uses a barrage of commodity RATs to target Afghanistan and India
DCRat Quasar RAT
2021-09-20Trend MicroAliakbar Zahravi, William Gamazo Sanchez
Water Basilisk Uses New HCrypt Variant to Flood Victims with RAT Payloads
Ave Maria BitRAT LimeRAT Nanocore RAT NjRAT Quasar RAT
2021-09-03Trend MicroMohamad Mokbel
The State of SSL/TLS Certificate Usage in Malware C&C Communications
AdWind ostap AsyncRAT BazarBackdoor BitRAT Buer Chthonic CloudEyE Cobalt Strike DCRat Dridex FindPOS GootKit Gozi IcedID ISFB Nanocore RAT Orcus RAT PandaBanker Qadars QakBot Quasar RAT Rockloader ServHelper Shifu SManager TorrentLocker TrickBot Vawtrak Zeus Zloader
2021-07-12Cipher Tech SolutionsClaire Zaboeva, Dan Dash, Melissa Frydrych
RoboSki and Global Recovery: Automation to Combat Evolving Obfuscation
404 Keylogger Agent Tesla AsyncRAT Ave Maria Azorult BitRAT Formbook HawkEye Keylogger Loki Password Stealer (PWS) Nanocore RAT NetWire RC NjRAT Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer Remcos
2021-07-12IBMClaire Zaboeva, Dan Dash, Melissa Frydrych
RoboSki and Global Recovery: Automation to Combat Evolving Obfuscation
404 Keylogger Agent Tesla AsyncRAT Ave Maria Azorult BitRAT Formbook HawkEye Keylogger Loki Password Stealer (PWS) Nanocore RAT NetWire RC NjRAT Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer Remcos
2021-05-27MinervaLabsTom Roter
Trapping A Fat Quasar RAT
Quasar RAT
2021-05-05ZscalerAniruddha Dolas, Manohar Ghule, Mohd Sadique
Catching RATs Over Custom Protocols Analysis of top non-HTTP/S threats
Agent Tesla AsyncRAT Crimson RAT CyberGate Ghost RAT Nanocore RAT NetWire RC NjRAT Quasar RAT Remcos
2021-04-27KasperskyGReAT
APT trends report Q1 2021
PAS Artra Downloader BadNews Bozok DILLJUICE Kazuar Quasar RAT SodaMaster
2021-04-14ZscalerAtinderpal Singh, Rohit Chaturvedi, Tarun Dewan
A look at HydroJiin campaign
NetWire RC Quasar RAT
2021-02-25IntezerIntezer
Year of the Gopher A 2020 Go Malware Round-Up
NiuB WellMail elf.wellmess ArdaMax AsyncRAT CyberGate DarkComet Glupteba Nanocore RAT Nefilim NjRAT Quasar RAT WellMess Zebrocy
2021-02-23CrowdStrikeCrowdStrike
2021 Global Threat Report
RansomEXX Amadey Anchor Avaddon BazarBackdoor Clop Cobalt Strike Conti Cutwail DanaBot DarkSide DoppelPaymer Dridex Egregor Emotet Hakbit IcedID JSOutProx KerrDown LockBit Mailto Maze MedusaLocker Mespinoza Mount Locker NedDnLoader Nemty Pay2Key PlugX Pushdo PwndLocker PyXie QakBot Quasar RAT RagnarLocker Ragnarok RansomEXX REvil Ryuk Sekhmet ShadowPad SmokeLoader Snake SUNBURST SunCrypt TEARDROP TrickBot WastedLocker Winnti Zloader Evilnum OUTLAW SPIDER RIDDLE SPIDER SOLAR SPIDER VIKING SPIDER
2021-02-05MorphisecNadav Lorber
CinaRAT Resurfaces with New Evasive Tactics and Techniques
Quasar RAT
2021-01-09Marco Ramilli's BlogMarco Ramilli
Command and Control Traffic Patterns
ostap LaZagne Agent Tesla Azorult Buer Cobalt Strike DanaBot DarkComet Dridex Emotet Formbook IcedID ISFB NetWire RC PlugX Quasar RAT SmokeLoader TrickBot
2020-12-28Antiy CERTAntiy CERT
"Civerids" organization vs. Middle East area attack activity analysis report
Quasar RAT
2020-12-24IronNetAdam Hlavek
China cyber attacks: the current threat landscape
PLEAD TSCookie FlowCloud Lookback PLEAD PlugX Quasar RAT Winnti
2020-12-10JPCERT/CCKota Kino
Attack Activities by Quasar Family
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2020-12-09CybereasonCybereason Nocturnus Team
MOLERATS IN THE CLOUD: New Malware Arsenal Abuses Cloud Platforms in Middle East Espionage Campaign
DropBook JhoneRAT Molerat Loader Pierogi Quasar RAT SharpStage Spark
2020-12-09CybereasonCybereason Nocturnus
New Malware Arsenal Abusing Cloud Platforms in Middle East Espionage Campaign
DropBook MoleNet Quasar RAT SharpStage Spark
2020-11-19ThreatpostElizabeth Montalbano
APT Exploits Microsoft Zerologon Bug: Targets Japanese Companies
Quasar RAT Ryuk
2020-11-17SymantecThreat Hunter Team
Japan-Linked Organizations Targeted in Long-Running and Sophisticated Attack Campaign
Quasar RAT
2020-06-22MalwareLab.plMaciej Kotowicz
VenomRAT - new, hackforums grade, reincarnation of QuassarRAT
Quasar RAT Venom RAT
2020-05-29ZscalerSudeep Singh
ShellReset RAT Spread Through Macro-Based Documents Using AppLocker Bypass
Quasar RAT
2020-05-14Lab52Dex
The energy reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and a malicious campaign of APT10 against Turkey
Cobalt Strike HTran MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT
2020-04-270x00secDan Lisichkin
Master of RATs - How to create your own Tracker
Quasar RAT
2020-02-21ADEO DFIRADEO DFIR
APT10 Threat Analysis Report
CHINACHOPPER HTran MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT
2020-01-31ReversingLabsRobert Simmons
RATs in the Library: Remote Access Trojans Hide in Plain "Public" Site
CyberGate LimeRAT NjRAT Quasar RAT Revenge RAT
2020-01-17JPCERT/CCTakayoshi Shiigi
Looking back on the incidents in 2019
TSCookie NodeRAT Emotet PoshC2 Quasar RAT
2020-01-01SecureworksSecureWorks
BRONZE RIVERSIDE
Anel ChChes Cobalt Strike PlugX Poison Ivy Quasar RAT RedLeaves APT10
2020-01-01SecureworksSecureWorks
ALUMINUM SARATOGA
BlackShades DarkComet Xtreme RAT Poison Ivy Quasar RAT Molerats
2019-11-19FireEyeKelli Vanderlee, Nalani Fraser
Achievement Unlocked: Chinese Cyber Espionage Evolves to Support Higher Level Missions
MESSAGETAP TSCookie ACEHASH CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Derusbi Empire Downloader Ghost RAT HIGHNOON HTran MimiKatz NetWire RC poisonplug Poison Ivy pupy Quasar RAT ZXShell
2019-05-24FortinetBen Hunter
Uncovering new Activity by APT10
PlugX Quasar RAT
2019-05-20Twitter (@struppigel)Karsten Hahn
Tweet on Yggdrasil / CinaRAT
Quasar RAT
2019-04-16FireEyeBen Read, Chi-en Shen, John Hultquist, Oleg Bondarenko
Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Ukraine Government and Military; Infrastructure Reveals Potential Link to So-Called Luhansk People's Republic
Quasar RAT Vermin
2019-04-01Macnica NetworksMacnica Networks
Trends in Cyber ​​Espionage Targeting Japan 2nd Half of 2018
Anel Cobalt Strike Datper PLEAD Quasar RAT RedLeaves taidoor Zebrocy
2019-03-27SymantecCritical Attack Discovery and Intelligence Team
Elfin: Relentless Espionage Group Targets Multiple Organizations in Saudi Arabia and U.S.
DarkComet MimiKatz Nanocore RAT NetWire RC pupy Quasar RAT Remcos StoneDrill TURNEDUP APT33
2019-03-27SymantecSecurity Response Attack Investigation Team
Elfin: Relentless Espionage Group Targets Multiple Organizations in Saudi Arabia and U.S.
DarkComet Nanocore RAT pupy Quasar RAT Remcos TURNEDUP APT33
2019-02-14CISACISA
AR18-352A: Quasar Open-Source Remote Administration Tool
Quasar RAT
2018-10-01Macnica NetworksMacnica Networks
Trends in cyber espionage (targeted attacks) targeting Japan | First half of 2018
Anel Cobalt Strike Datper FlawedAmmyy Quasar RAT RedLeaves taidoor Winnti xxmm
2018-08-02Palo Alto Networks Unit 42David Fuertes, Josh Grunzweig, Kyle Wilhoit, Robert Falcone
The Gorgon Group: Slithering Between Nation State and Cybercrime
Loki Password Stealer (PWS) Nanocore RAT NjRAT Quasar RAT Remcos Revenge RAT
2018-07-17ESET ResearchKaspars Osis
A deep dive down the Vermin RAThole
Quasar RAT Sobaken Vermin
2018-06-07VolexityMatthew Meltzer, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair
Patchwork APT Group Targets US Think Tanks
Quasar RAT Unidentified 047 QUILTED TIGER
2018-03-30360 Threat IntelligenceQi Anxin Threat Intelligence Center
Analysis of the latest cyber attack activity of the APT organization against sensitive institutions in China
Quasar RAT
2017-12-11Trend MicroCedric Pernet, Daniel Lunghi, Jaromír Hořejší
Untangling the Patchwork Cyberespionage Group
Quasar RAT
2017-04-01PricewaterhouseCoopersPricewaterhouseCoopers
Operation Cloud Hopper: Technical Annex
ChChes PlugX Quasar RAT RedLeaves Trochilus RAT
2017-01-30Palo Alto Networks Unit 42Mashav Sapir, Netanel Rimer, Simon Conant, Taras Malivanchuk, Tomer Bar, Yaron Samuel
Downeks and Quasar RAT Used in Recent Targeted Attacks Against Governments
Quasar RAT
2016-10-20Twitter (@malwrhunterteam)MalwareHunterTeam
Tweet on Quasar RAT
Quasar RAT
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] win_quasar_rat_auto (20180607 | autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator)
rule win_quasar_rat_auto {

    meta:
        author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
        date = "2018-11-23"
        version = "1"
        description = "autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator"
        tool = "yara-signator 0.1a"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.quasar_rat"
        malpedia_version = "20180607"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"

    /* DISCLAIMER
     * The strings used in this rule have been automatically selected from the
     * disassembly of memory dumps and unpacked files, using yara-signator.
     * The code and documentation / approach will be published in the near future here:
     * https://github.com/fxb-cocacoding/yara-signator
     * As Malpedia is used as data source, please note that for a given
     * number of families, only single samples are documented.
     * This likely impacts the degree of generalization these rules will offer.
     * Take the described generation method also into consideration when you
     * apply the rules in your use cases and assign them confidence levels.
     */

    strings:
        $sequence_0 = { 24c1 0430 e800000000 8408 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   24c1                 | and                 al, 0xc1
            //   0430                 | add                 al, 0x30
            //   e800000000           | call                0x42394c
            //   8408                 | test                byte ptr [eax], cl

        $sequence_1 = { e800000000 8408 d408 0100 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   e800000000           | call                0x42394c
            //   8408                 | test                byte ptr [eax], cl
            //   d408                 | aam                 8
            //   0100                 | add                 dword ptr [eax], eax

        $sequence_2 = { c508 0100 5a 24c1 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   c508                 | lds                 ecx, ptr [eax]
            //   0100                 | add                 dword ptr [eax], eax
            //   5a                   | pop                 edx
            //   24c1                 | and                 al, 0xc1

        $sequence_3 = { 61 00c0 0428 e800000000 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   61                   | popal               
            //   00c0                 | add                 al, al
            //   0428                 | add                 al, 0x28
            //   e800000000           | call                0x42393c

        $sequence_4 = { 00c0 0428 e800000000 8408 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   00c0                 | add                 al, al
            //   0428                 | add                 al, 0x28
            //   e800000000           | call                0x42393c
            //   8408                 | test                byte ptr [eax], cl

        $sequence_5 = { e800000000 8408 c508 0100 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   e800000000           | call                0x42393c
            //   8408                 | test                byte ptr [eax], cl
            //   c508                 | lds                 ecx, ptr [eax]
            //   0100                 | add                 dword ptr [eax], eax

        $sequence_6 = { 60 24c1 043c e800000000 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   60                   | pushal              
            //   24c1                 | and                 al, 0xc1
            //   043c                 | add                 al, 0x3c
            //   e800000000           | call                0x42395c

        $sequence_7 = { d408 0100 60 24c1 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   d408                 | aam                 8
            //   0100                 | add                 dword ptr [eax], eax
            //   60                   | pushal              
            //   24c1                 | and                 al, 0xc1

        $sequence_8 = { e800000000 8418 ee 0200 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   e800000000           | call                0x42395c
            //   8418                 | test                byte ptr [eax], bl
            //   ee                   | out                 dx, al
            //   0200                 | add                 al, byte ptr [eax]

        $sequence_9 = { 0100 5a 24c1 0430 }
            // n = 4, score = 1000
            //   0100                 | add                 dword ptr [eax], eax
            //   5a                   | pop                 edx
            //   24c1                 | and                 al, 0xc1
            //   0430                 | add                 al, 0x30

    condition:
        7 of them
}
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