Malware Analysis Report

2025-08-06 03:42

Sample ID 230921-wp6spahf9z
Target 0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2
SHA256 0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2
Tags
smokeloader pub1 backdoor trojan
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V15

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2

Threat Level: Known bad

The file 0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2 was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

smokeloader pub1 backdoor trojan

SmokeLoader

Deletes itself

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

Unsigned PE

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

Checks SCSI registry key(s)

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2023-09-21 18:06

Signatures

Unsigned PE

Description Indicator Process Target
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Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2023-09-21 18:06

Reported

2023-09-21 18:09

Platform

win10-20230915-en

Max time kernel

150s

Max time network

130s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe"

Signatures

SmokeLoader

trojan backdoor smokeloader

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
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Checks SCSI registry key(s)

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\SCSI C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe N/A
Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\SCSI C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe N/A
Key enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\SCSI C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe N/A

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Description Indicator Process Target
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Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Suspicious behavior: MapViewOfSection

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 4944 wrote to memory of 2820 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe
PID 4944 wrote to memory of 2820 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe
PID 4944 wrote to memory of 2820 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe
PID 4944 wrote to memory of 2820 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe
PID 4944 wrote to memory of 2820 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe
PID 4944 wrote to memory of 2820 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe

Uses Task Scheduler COM API

persistence

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe"

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0aa0146c720c3018a04e4cbeb1a2da2f5609dc8de9ecd8657c94faea5ef06fe2.exe"

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 host-file-host6.com udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 host-host-file8.com udp
NL 194.169.175.127:80 host-host-file8.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 127.175.169.194.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 14.227.111.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 90.16.208.104.in-addr.arpa udp

Files

memory/4944-1-0x00000000007D0000-0x00000000008D0000-memory.dmp

memory/4944-2-0x00000000001F0000-0x00000000001F9000-memory.dmp

memory/2820-3-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000409000-memory.dmp

memory/2820-4-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000409000-memory.dmp

memory/2820-6-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000409000-memory.dmp

memory/3232-5-0x0000000000B10000-0x0000000000B26000-memory.dmp