General

  • Target

    mm.exe

  • Size

    7.0MB

  • Sample

    221008-3fxa8agagp

  • MD5

    78d0b33d1fa1076547aee9348ac7b4bc

  • SHA1

    d0555b13ff01e5c8f29b2c1151cb7aee8c50d502

  • SHA256

    d5b84b2960a827f7096769957650be93252b2285e2387988c1d2884044089a32

  • SHA512

    8cf5b0c6d8374b72a8a46381b2366edf4c285abcaf98c96246adc0c184839a5a07b5e8507be0cdf890bc9354d0e4dd37ce60413a029734e0b7dc992d500aaa29

  • SSDEEP

    196608:hwR9ij8JXcspYttacZm+gUBxLo1lLalxWS:6R9ij+cspYtt3VxE1lGlxt

Malware Config

Targets

    • Target

      mm.exe

    • Size

      7.0MB

    • MD5

      78d0b33d1fa1076547aee9348ac7b4bc

    • SHA1

      d0555b13ff01e5c8f29b2c1151cb7aee8c50d502

    • SHA256

      d5b84b2960a827f7096769957650be93252b2285e2387988c1d2884044089a32

    • SHA512

      8cf5b0c6d8374b72a8a46381b2366edf4c285abcaf98c96246adc0c184839a5a07b5e8507be0cdf890bc9354d0e4dd37ce60413a029734e0b7dc992d500aaa29

    • SSDEEP

      196608:hwR9ij8JXcspYttacZm+gUBxLo1lLalxWS:6R9ij+cspYtt3VxE1lGlxt

    • Modifies security service

    • xmrig

      XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

    • Identifies VirtualBox via ACPI registry values (likely anti-VM)

    • XMRig Miner payload

    • Drops file in Drivers directory

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Stops running service(s)

    • UPX packed file

      Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

    • Checks BIOS information in registry

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

    • Loads dropped DLL

    • Themida packer

      Detects Themida, an advanced Windows software protection system.

    • Checks whether UAC is enabled

    • Drops file in System32 directory

    • Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger

    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

MITRE ATT&CK Matrix ATT&CK v6

Execution

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Persistence

Modify Existing Service

2
T1031

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task

1
T1053

Defense Evasion

Modify Registry

1
T1112

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

1
T1497

Impair Defenses

1
T1562

Discovery

Query Registry

2
T1012

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

1
T1497

System Information Discovery

2
T1082

Impact

Service Stop

1
T1489

Tasks