Between August 19 and 22, 2026, security researchers documented at least six distinct command-and-control (C2) server configurations for a malware variant called StagedC2, posted via Pastebin, with C2 addresses spanning multiple IP ranges and portmap.host domains primarily linked to 193.161.193.99.
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# StagedC2 config observed at Wed Aug 19 12:08:05 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/b2M5D0ze C2: voxmodz-63034[.]portmap[.]host:63034 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Wed Aug 19 17:44:04 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/U3M7Chha C2: abdoussa-61932[.]portmap[.]host:61932 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Wed Aug 19 18:16:05 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/m6NtXjv7 C2: abdoussa-43502[.]portmap[.]host:43502 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Wed Aug 19 23:54:03 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/gEjy2bE5 C2: Xuser45-64772[.]portmap[.]host:64772 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Thu Aug 20 07:56:04 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/nUDE3CPH C2: GHOSTES10-36761[.]portmap[.]host:36761 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Thu Aug 20 08:16:02 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/Vg2ykzpe C2: marioshikord-52402[.]portmap[.]host:52402 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Fri Aug 21 02:24:04 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/vABSa95m C2: Raihan-60994[.]portmap[.]host:60994 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Fri Aug 21 14:38:03 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/9ftx58AL C2: Si-One-55439[.]portmap[.]host:55439 (IP: 193.161.193.99)
# StagedC2 config observed at Fri Aug 21 21:56:04 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/dcjKQh5F C2: nnxfdbqg2x[.]localto[.]net:8624 (IP: 194.182.79.61)
# StagedC2 config observed at Sat Aug 22 11:02:02 2026 UTC, located at hXXps://pastebin[.]com/raw/ajYeyVrG C2: bortmap991-35224[.]portmap[.]host:35224 (IP: 193.161.193.99)