Technical Analysis of Lucid Stealer : Execution, Capabilities, and C2 Infrastructure

    Date: 08/17/2026

    Severity: High

    Summary

    Lucid Stealer is an information-stealing malware designed to harvest sensitive personal and financial data from compromised systems. It uses a legitimate Node.js-based execution framework to hide malicious components and evade traditional static analysis. The malware employs anti-analysis techniques, including misleading certificate-like structures and modified executable characteristics. Its encrypted and obfuscated payloads are reconstructed at runtime, making its internal functionality harder to detect and analyze. Lucid Stealer communicates with its C2 infrastructure through WebSockets and uses Axios to exfiltrate stolen data via HTTP POST requests. The associated C2 infrastructure supports multiple malware families, while a Telegram channel is used to support the malware.

    Indicators of Compromise (IOC) List

    Domains/URLs

    http://lucidstealer.one/api/upload

    http://lucidstealer.one/ws

    http://lucidstealer.one/api/internal/log

    lucidstealer.one

    IP Address

    172.67.157.161

    104.21.8.179

    85.239.155.68

    91.195.240.123

    Hash

    cdba69887866a484276b35a818f5604047fb7369eec687af803752a6dcd0e885

    208a1acee4384809adc62dd358dfc5a547c55b3a0fdd8a5064cc779f929afece

    06edb1c24b98cd2c92f0e652ed4e4700d6a76f2299debed06f54c3ffa18ee5d9

    054ed7761c96210e31e3cae2a476cad18ba645ebc70b6c2e3cffdfe18cf6011a

    Filenames

    C:\Users\[%]\AppData\Local\ Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32

    C:\Users\[%]\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32\deps.zip

    C:\Users\[%]\AppData\Local\Temp\LUCID_native_loader.log

    C:\Users\[%]\AppData\Local\Temp\ debug.log

    Gurucul Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) Queries for Detection

    Detection Query 1 :

    domainname like "lucidstealer.one" or url like "lucidstealer.one" or siteurl like "lucidstealer.one" or domainname like "http://lucidstealer.one/api/upload" or url like "http://lucidstealer.one/api/upload" or siteurl like "http://lucidstealer.one/api/upload" or domainname like "http://lucidstealer.one/api/internal/log" or url like "http://lucidstealer.one/api/internal/log" or siteurl like "http://lucidstealer.one/api/internal/log" or domainname like "http://lucidstealer.one/ws" or url like "http://lucidstealer.one/ws" or siteurl like "http://lucidstealer.one/ws"

    Detection Query 2 :

    dstipaddress IN ("172.67.157.161","104.21.8.179","85.239.155.68","91.195.240.123") or srcipaddress IN ("172.67.157.161","104.21.8.179","85.239.155.68","91.195.240.123")

    Detection Query 3 :

    sha256hash IN ("054ed7761c96210e31e3cae2a476cad18ba645ebc70b6c2e3cffdfe18cf6011a","208a1acee4384809adc62dd358dfc5a547c55b3a0fdd8a5064cc779f929afece","06edb1c24b98cd2c92f0e652ed4e4700d6a76f2299debed06f54c3ffa18ee5d9","cdba69887866a484276b35a818f5604047fb7369eec687af803752a6dcd0e885")

    Detection Query 4 :

    datasourcename = "Windows Security" and eventtype = "4663" and (objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32" or objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32" or objectname like C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32\deps.zip" or objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\LUCID_native_loader.log" or objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\debug.log")

    Detection Query 5 :

    technologygroup = "EDR" and (objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32" or objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32" or objectname like C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft\82c88d32\deps.zip" or objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\LUCID_native_loader.log" or objectname like "C:\Users\%\AppData\Local\Temp\debug.log")

    Reference:    

    https://www.cyfirma.com/research/technical-analysis-of-lucid-stealer-execution-capabilities-and-c2-infrastructure/                                   


    Tags

    MalwareStealerFinancial ServicesObfuscationWebSocketExfiltrationTelegram

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