Stage 0 – LNK PowerShell loader
3-layer base64: command line, Layer 1 + Layer 2 dropper scripts
https://gist.github.com/anorthern-censys/aa3c29b1eafac8c67f82220f89864b63
Stage 1 – LNK stager (StandaloneProgram)
UAC bypass, payload download, persistence, backdoor user
https://gist.github.com/anorthern-censys/3dd1f553656d39c14fa67cbaed149ec6
Stage 2 – ctrl.exe AES loader
Decrypts and runs embedded C2 payload via Assembly.Load()
https://gist.github.com/anorthern-censys/49493f0ca16e2f73a86fc8fd46cb54a6
Stage 3 – ctrl C2 payload
Credential harvester, keylogger, toast spoofing, RDP shadow, pipe C2
https://gist.github.com/anorthern-censys/59e2dcd9612c7064942cee0faeba0a5c
Stage 4 – FRPWrapper
AES-decrypts embedded FRP v0.65.0 Go DLL, manual PE loader
https://gist.github.com/anorthern-censys/abfde26ac3b15856de3b2afc2737f8ba
Stage 5 – RDPWrapper
Patches termsrv.dll, RDP Wrapper, Defender exclusion, unlimited RDP
https://gist.github.com/anorthern-censys/9fff148661ec2a8ac3dd18e9ce54bdff
Tooling – Payload decryption script
decrypt_payloads.py – extracts AES-encrypted payloads from ctrl.exe and FRPWrapper.exe
https://gist.github.com/anorthern-censys/dcf530769fcde7795320db5fd7c01eb8