Malware Analysis Report

2025-08-11 01:03

Sample ID 240611-k66y8ssclk
Target 2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe
SHA256 7398a263d083be40a476ded7173f6582c993ba2ea407b3dc03928be816fe23cb
Tags
persistence
score
7/10

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: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
7/10

SHA256

7398a263d083be40a476ded7173f6582c993ba2ea407b3dc03928be816fe23cb

Threat Level: Shows suspicious behavior

The file 2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe was found to be: Shows suspicious behavior.

Malicious Activity Summary

persistence

Deletes itself

Executes dropped EXE

Adds Run key to start application

Drops file in Windows directory

Unsigned PE

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2024-06-11 09:13

Signatures

Unsigned PE

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

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-06-11 09:13

Reported

2024-06-11 09:16

Platform

win7-20240419-en

Max time kernel

149s

Max time network

118s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe"

Signatures

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Executes dropped EXE

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Adds Run key to start application

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
Set value (str) \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-481678230-3773327859-3495911762-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\microsofthelp = "C:\\Windows\\microsofthelp.exe" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe N/A

Drops file in Windows directory

Description Indicator Process Target
File created C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe N/A
File created C:\Windows\HidePlugin.dll C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe"

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

"C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe"

Network

N/A

Files

memory/1008-0-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040D000-memory.dmp

memory/1008-3-0x0000000000220000-0x000000000022D000-memory.dmp

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

MD5 d2039a1f25d65b91ad20c4eee765c2c3
SHA1 411426c6a7725f9a23b777047404232bd925af24
SHA256 773d5685a06a7be5bb9e806bb9db292ac9a7c74f576a4c7988b1f60473901c7e
SHA512 1aa4a40d088510b79999a62b895f88db525b79f11a03d0002a124f84e7abf292a2cd1c1e2c90a1b4d4232cafe822fbb904d0f7ff65957b7629f75ff614705c92

memory/1008-7-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040D000-memory.dmp

memory/1856-9-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040D000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-06-11 09:13

Reported

2024-06-11 09:16

Platform

win10v2004-20240508-en

Max time kernel

149s

Max time network

51s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe"

Signatures

Deletes itself

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Executes dropped EXE

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Adds Run key to start application

persistence
Description Indicator Process Target
Set value (str) \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2804150937-2146708401-419095071-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\microsofthelp = "C:\\Windows\\microsofthelp.exe" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe N/A

Drops file in Windows directory

Description Indicator Process Target
File created C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe N/A
File created C:\Windows\HidePlugin.dll C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2fb2ac0d407233e0500da9796fd1e3d0_NeikiAnalytics.exe"

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

"C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe"

Network

Files

memory/2212-0-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040D000-memory.dmp

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

MD5 d2039a1f25d65b91ad20c4eee765c2c3
SHA1 411426c6a7725f9a23b777047404232bd925af24
SHA256 773d5685a06a7be5bb9e806bb9db292ac9a7c74f576a4c7988b1f60473901c7e
SHA512 1aa4a40d088510b79999a62b895f88db525b79f11a03d0002a124f84e7abf292a2cd1c1e2c90a1b4d4232cafe822fbb904d0f7ff65957b7629f75ff614705c92

memory/228-5-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040D000-memory.dmp