Extracted

• • Target

    d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3.exe

  • Size

    79KB

  • MD5

    e2e3268f813a0c5128ff8347cbaa58c8

  • SHA1

    4952cbfbdec300c048808d79ee431972b8a7ba84

  • SHA256

    d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3

  • SHA512

    cb5aeda8378a9a5470f33f2b70c22e77d2df97b162ba953eb16da085b3c434be31a5997eac11501db0cb612cdb30fa9045719fcd10c7227c56cc782558e0c3bc

  • SSDEEP

    1536:W9mw4/inFmav82TmKtj+5qUPsY3BCHYJhcWPA4G9kj3K1:CmwohOBiPsWMH4ogj3K

  Score

  10^/10

  phorphiexxmrigevasionexecutionloaderminerpersistencetrojanworm

  • Modifies security service

    evasion

  • Phorphiex payload

  • Phorphiex, Phorpiex

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

    wormtrojanloaderphorphiex

  • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess

  • Windows security bypass

    evasiontrojan

  • xmrig

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

    minerxmrig

  • XMRig Miner payload

    miner

  • 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

  • Stops running service(s)

    evasionexecution

  • Checks computer location settings

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

  • Executes dropped EXE

  • Loads dropped DLL

  • Windows security modification

    evasiontrojan

  • Adds Run key to start application

    persistence

  • Drops file in System32 directory

  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

  behavioral1behavioral2