Extracted

• • Target

    https://github.com/LatenceX/Mercurial-Grabber/raw/main/Mercurial.exe

  Score

  10^/10

  mercurialgrabberxwormagilenetevasionexecutionpersistenceratstealertrojan

  • Detect Xworm Payload

  • Mercurial Grabber Stealer

    Mercurial Grabber is an open source stealer targeting Chrome, Discord and some game clients as well as generic system information.

    stealermercurialgrabber

  • Xworm

    Xworm is a remote access trojan written in C#.

    trojanratxworm

  • Looks for VirtualBox Guest Additions in registry

    evasion

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

    Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

    execution

  • Downloads MZ/PE file

  • Looks for VMWare Tools registry key

    evasion

  • Checks BIOS information in registry

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

  • Checks computer location settings

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

  • Drops startup file

  • Executes dropped EXE

  • Obfuscated with Agile.Net obfuscator

    Detects use of the Agile.Net commercial obfuscator, which is capable of entity renaming and control flow obfuscation.

    agilenet

  • Adds Run key to start application

    persistence

  • Legitimate hosting services abused for malware hosting/C2

  • Looks up external IP address via web service

    Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.

  • Maps connected drives based on registry

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

  behavioral1