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System Information Discovery

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	ioc	process
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\VideoBiosVersion	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosVersion	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

Query Registry

System Information Discovery

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	ioc	process
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2629973501-4017243118-3254762364-1000\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

Reads user/profile data of web browsers 2 TTPs
Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.
spyware stealer

Data from Local System
T1005

Credentials in Files
T1081

Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

collection

Email Collection

T1114

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	ioc	process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2629973501-4017243118-3254762364-1000\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2629973501-4017243118-3254762364-1000\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2629973501-4017243118-3254762364-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

Maps connected drives based on registry 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

Disk information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

Query Registry

Peripheral Device Discovery

T1120

System Information Discovery

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	ioc	process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Disk\Enum	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\disk\Enum\0	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description pid process target process

PID 3928 set thread context of 4492 3928 0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe 0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s). Likely ransomware behaviour.

System Information Discovery
T1082
Creates scheduled task(s) 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
persistence

Scheduled Task
T1053

Processes:

schtasks.exe

pid process

4276 schtasks.exe
NTFS ADS 1 IoCs

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description ioc process

File opened for modification C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\alrpc:[protected_storage] 0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs

Processes:

powershell.exepowershell.exe

pid process

5096 powershell.exe
2920 powershell.exe
5096 powershell.exe
2920 powershell.exe
Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself 1 IoCs

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

pid process

4492 0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	pid	process	target process
PID 3928 set thread context of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

pid	process
4276	schtasks.exe

description	ioc	process
File opened for modification	C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\alrpc:[protected_storage]	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

pid	process
5096	powershell.exe
2920	powershell.exe
5096	powershell.exe
2920	powershell.exe

pid	process
4492	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs

Processes:

powershell.exepowershell.exe0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	pid	process
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	5096	powershell.exe
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	2920	powershell.exe
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	4492	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 18 IoCs

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	pid	process	target process
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 5096	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	powershell.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 5096	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	powershell.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 5096	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	powershell.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 2920	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	powershell.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 2920	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	powershell.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 2920	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	powershell.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4276	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	schtasks.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4276	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	schtasks.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4276	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	schtasks.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
PID 3928 wrote to memory of 4492	3928	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

outlook_office_path 1 IoCs

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	ioc	process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2629973501-4017243118-3254762364-1000\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

outlook_win_path 1 IoCs

Processes:

0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

description	ioc	process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2629973501-4017243118-3254762364-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook	0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe"
1⤵
- Looks for VirtualBox Guest Additions in registry
- Looks for VMWare Tools registry key
- Checks BIOS information in registry
- Checks computer location settings
- Maps connected drives based on registry
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:3928

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe"
2⤵
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:5096

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\oShQppxjcwzFsk.exe"
2⤵
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:2920

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
"C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\oShQppxjcwzFsk" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp3066.tmp"
2⤵
- Creates scheduled task(s)
PID:4276

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0553ae7af8a6276b7ac154eb1ab1018f.exe"
2⤵
- Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
- NTFS ADS
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- outlook_office_path
- outlook_win_path
PID:4492

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Initial Access

Execution

Scheduled Task

T1053

Persistence

Scheduled Task

T1053

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task

T1053

Defense Evasion

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

2

T1497

Credential Access

Credentials in Files

T1081

Discovery

Query Registry

5

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

2

T1497

System Information Discovery

4

Peripheral Device Discovery

T1120

Lateral Movement

Collection

Data from Local System

T1005

Email Collection