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Behind the Refund: From GST Phishing to Remcos RAT Through a Multi-Stage .NET Infection Chain

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Medium
Published: 07/17/2026 (07/17/2026, 11:18:30 UTC)
Source: AlienVault OTX General

Description

A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Indian businesses and taxpayers leverages GST-related themes to distribute Remcos RAT through a multi-stage .NET framework. Threat actors impersonate Government of India GST communications using fraudulent refund notifications with convincing ARN references. The attack chain begins with a malicious RAR archive containing a .NET executable that employs bitmap-based payload concealment techniques. Through successive stages including Windows Health Optimizer Plus.dll and perfgurd.dll, the malware deploys Remcos RAT entirely in memory, establishing persistence via PowerShell scripts and registry modifications. Command-and-control infrastructure utilizes dynamic DNS services with randomized subdomains under aofmokighoig.hath.network. The deployed Remcos RAT enables remote command execution, keylogging, credential harvesting, file manipulation, and comprehensive system reconnaissance capabilities, representing a financially motivated cybercrime operation specifically t...

Technical Details

Author
AlienVault
Tlp
white
References
["https://www.seqrite.com/blog/behind-the-refund-from-gst-phishing-to-remcos-rat-through-a-multi-stage-net-infection-chain/"]
Adversary
null
Pulse Id
6a5a0f86e175ec219dfa17b2
Threat Score
null

Indicators of Compromise

Hash

ValueDescriptionCopy
hash07d7d21c2c0920d198efb9ea54900a80
hash20476f3a51dfddf3dc0603fc7858d894
hash2a34bdd25b404737ee5d3b52bf0b3b70
hash3757dccb2adae65ccdf8d5e5c948b927
hash7842d12d9e37c75076133be5b9904cb2
hashcc34d9760394104ad47877a0d57e9c63

Threat ID: 6a5b3f7634329bf928c66a9e

Added to database: 07/18/2026, 08:55:18 UTC

Last updated: 07/18/2026, 11:11:42 UTC

Views: 3

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