Malware Analysis Report

2025-01-18 02:04

Sample ID 240613-jdl8pazamg
Target 69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_NeikiAnalytics.exe
SHA256 1fd8e4242b837236990da9cedfb5b4c52108d77ba3ca525a529f16e511ae478d
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

1fd8e4242b837236990da9cedfb5b4c52108d77ba3ca525a529f16e511ae478d

Threat Level: Shows suspicious behavior

The file 69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_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

2024-06-13 07:33

Signatures

Unsigned PE

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

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-06-13 07:33

Reported

2024-06-13 07:35

Platform

win7-20240508-en

Max time kernel

149s

Max time network

119s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_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-1-5-21-2737914667-933161113-3798636211-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\microsofthelp = "C:\\Windows\\microsofthelp.exe" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_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\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_NeikiAnalytics.exe N/A
File created C:\Windows\HidePlugin.dll C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_NeikiAnalytics.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_NeikiAnalytics.exe"

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

"C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe"

Network

N/A

Files

memory/2556-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000410000-memory.dmp

memory/2556-3-0x0000000000220000-0x0000000000230000-memory.dmp

memory/2556-7-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000410000-memory.dmp

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

MD5 28656974b4e032374478becd1763b3c6
SHA1 373767c97953163a87c8419ab2e1bb1423d19200
SHA256 64ebfe5c5e9075d4eead537bfba1f21cc9d39c72bb04916781a0fe9c887ca1b1
SHA512 5d2ceb2523305624fd7fcdde7cb60db0dff47ccabdf252ac475b5d273af58a04c570c9e041e285521837984321c25d2570c22832b916ca9dfff3ff0dd844d19e

memory/2760-9-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000410000-memory.dmp

memory/2760-11-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000410000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-06-13 07:33

Reported

2024-06-13 07:35

Platform

win10v2004-20240611-en

Max time kernel

149s

Max time network

149s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_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-1-5-21-4204450073-1267028356-951339405-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\microsofthelp = "C:\\Windows\\microsofthelp.exe" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_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\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_NeikiAnalytics.exe N/A
File created C:\Windows\HidePlugin.dll C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_NeikiAnalytics.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\69904eccd24583b7a37dac2524f084c0_NeikiAnalytics.exe"

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

"C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe"

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 g.bing.com udp
US 204.79.197.237:443 g.bing.com tcp
NL 23.62.61.193:443 www.bing.com tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 76.32.126.40.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 172.210.232.199.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 237.197.79.204.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 193.61.62.23.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 18.31.95.13.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 86.23.85.13.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 144.107.17.2.in-addr.arpa udp
US 52.111.227.11:443 tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 13.227.111.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 udp

Files

memory/4896-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000410000-memory.dmp

C:\Windows\microsofthelp.exe

MD5 28656974b4e032374478becd1763b3c6
SHA1 373767c97953163a87c8419ab2e1bb1423d19200
SHA256 64ebfe5c5e9075d4eead537bfba1f21cc9d39c72bb04916781a0fe9c887ca1b1
SHA512 5d2ceb2523305624fd7fcdde7cb60db0dff47ccabdf252ac475b5d273af58a04c570c9e041e285521837984321c25d2570c22832b916ca9dfff3ff0dd844d19e

memory/3804-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000410000-memory.dmp

memory/3804-6-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000410000-memory.dmp