Malicious
Seven tier-1 engines converge on Trojan.Pomal family; process injection + direct-IP C2 confirmed; unsigned, established malware.
1f9f8a8f136e6e5c07…f1a38fa0e7The verdict, reasoned out.
Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.
The evidence strongly indicates this is a known trojan. Seven tier-1 antivirus engines agree on the Trojan.Pomal family classification, not generic heuristic labels. Behaviour analysis reveals two offensive MITRE techniques exclusive to malware: process injection via CreateRemoteThread/APC and reflective code loading. The sample contacted 12 external IP addresses directly without using DNS, a hallmark of C2 infrastructure designed to evade reputation-based blocklists. The file is unsigned with no legitimate publisher history, and prevalence data shows 494 submitters and 513 submissions since December 2021, indicating this is an established malware sample with known distribution. The combination of tier-1 consensus, named family, offensive techniques, and C2 evasion pattern yields high confidence in malicious classification.
Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.
tier1Malicious=7 (Fortinet, Ikarus, Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec, TrendMicro×2) with tier1FamilyConsensus.strong=true on 'win32' family
Named family consensus: Trojan.Pomal across Ikarus, Microsoft, TrendMicro, CTX, CAT-QuickHeal, Lionic, Sangfor, Varist — not generic heuristic labels
Offensive MITRE techniques T1055.003 (Process Injection) + T1620 (Reflective Code Loading) — malware-exclusive behaviours confirmed by triggeredHeuristics 'MalwareTips.Synth.ProcessInjection' (high) and 'MalwareTips.Synth.DirectIpC2' (medium)
Direct-IP C2 contact to 12 external IPs (23.10.195.101, 52.185.73.156, 192.229.211.108, etc.) with zero DNS domains — evasion pattern bypassing reputation systems
Unsigned, no signer history, prevalence=common_old (494 submitters since 2021-12-18) — established malware sample with no legitimate publisher cover
- No malicious dropped children — sample does not spawn secondary malware payloads
- No persistence indicators recorded — does not attempt to survive system reboot
- No registry modifications logged — limited system-level persistence mechanisms
- Process injection (T1055.003) — payload smuggled into legitimate process to evade AV hooks
- Reflective code loading (T1620) — in-memory code execution without disk artifacts
- Direct-IP C2 communication to 12 external addresses — bypasses DNS reputation systems
- Unsigned executable — no legitimate publisher identity or code-signing certificate
- Established malware distribution — 494 submitters, 513 submissions since 2021
- Tier-1 antivirus consensus — 7 high-trust engines agree on Trojan.Pomal family
Block and quarantine this file immediately. Do not execute under any circumstances. If already present on your system, perform a full malware scan and consider professional incident response to assess the scope of compromise.
pomal corroborated by 2 sources
- VT (74 engines)pomal
- MT AI EnginePomal
What this file did when executed
This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.
Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- 23.10.195.101
- 52.185.73.156
- 192.229.211.108
- 20.99.186.246
- 23.216.147.76
- 20.99.184.37
- 192.168.0.51
- 23.216.81.152
- 23.216.147.64
- 20.99.185.48
- \Device\ConDrv\\Connect
- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WEREA8F.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WEREA90.tmp.csv
- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WEREAA1.tmp.txt
- C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\2.0\cache\cache.dat
- %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE\KLT1I0ZU\update50[1].xml
YARA + heuristic rules that fired
A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.
MITRE T1055 (Process Injection) observed — CreateRemoteThread / APC / reflective-DLL injection. The payload is being smuggled into a legitimate process to bypass AV hooks.
Evidence%SAMPLEPATH%\1f9f8a8f136e6e5c076ab5787b254fa549884b19782542ec435addf1a38fa0e7.exeSample contacted 12 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.
Evidence23.10.195.101 · 52.185.73.156 · 192.229.211.108
26 detections across 74 engines
Section entropy & packers
Section-level entropy and packer detection from the PE header. Nothing suspicious here — entropy is within the normal range for unpacked code.
How often this file shows up in the wild
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Forensic fingerprint
- File name
- cytranet-dal.dl.sourceforge.net
- Size
- 89.0 KB
- MIME type
- (unknown)
- Detected type
- Win32 EXE
- SHA-256
- 1f9f8a8f136e6e5c076ab5787b254fa549884b19782542ec435addf1a38fa0e7
- MD5
- 4d8889efff3483defc5c4f4bb3f4c6b2
- SHA-1
- d13b127823c58e632c6ffdc699c90bff7b9a892f
- PE imphash
- 7226d9b3a4f367d900250c7a88f35bcb
- First seen (VT)
- 12/18/2021, 6:39:45 AM
- Last analysis (VT)
- 6/17/2026, 9:21:34 AM
- First scan (MalwareTips)
- 6/29/2026, 6:29:36 PM
- Last scan (MalwareTips)
- 6/29/2026, 6:29:36 PM
- Community reputation
- -9flagged
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