Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    149s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20240705-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20240705-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    20-07-2024 12:17

General

  • Target

    d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3.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 2 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
  • Executes dropped EXE 6 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 4 IoCs
  • Windows security modification 2 TTPs 14 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 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).

  • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 11 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 19 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 19 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 62 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:1180
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3.exe"
        2⤵
        • Adds Run key to start application
        • Drops file in Windows directory
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2644
        • C:\Windows\sysarddrvs.exe
          C:\Windows\sysarddrvs.exe
          3⤵
          • Modifies security service
          • Windows security bypass
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Loads dropped DLL
          • Windows security modification
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2680
          • 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:2704
            • 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:2668
          • 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:2972
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop UsoSvc
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:2712
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop WaaSMedicSvc
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:2912
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop wuauserv
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:2728
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop DoSvc
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:2652
            • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
              sc stop BITS
              5⤵
              • Launches sc.exe
              PID:2596
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\245342240.exe
            C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\245342240.exe
            4⤵
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Adds Run key to start application
            • Drops file in Windows directory
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:2904
            • C:\Windows\winblrsnrcs.exe
              C:\Windows\winblrsnrcs.exe
              5⤵
              • Modifies security service
              • Windows security bypass
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • Windows security modification
              PID:3028
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3294426235.exe
            C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3294426235.exe
            4⤵
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Loads dropped DLL
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:1132
            • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1041932575.exe
              C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1041932575.exe
              5⤵
              • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
              PID:960
      • 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⤵
        • Drops file in System32 directory
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2000
        • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
          "C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager" /tr "'C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe'"
          3⤵
          • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
          PID:1600
      • C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
        C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager"
        2⤵
          PID:3032
        • 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⤵
          • Drops file in System32 directory
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:1544
          • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
            "C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager" /tr "'C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe'"
            3⤵
            • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
            PID:1424
        • C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
          C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
          2⤵
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
          • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
          PID:2884
      • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
        taskeng.exe {6F0C3F65-7949-4832-8BCE-7D94EF8A7F32} S-1-5-21-3502430532-24693940-2469786940-1000:PSBQWFYT\Admin:Interactive:[1]
        1⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2960
        • C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\Windows Upgrade\wupgrdsv.exe"
          2⤵
          • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:1892

      Network

      MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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      Downloads

      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1411832756.exe

        Filesize

        86KB

        MD5

        fe1e93f12cca3f7c0c897ef2084e1778

        SHA1

        fb588491ddad8b24ea555a6a2727e76cec1fade3

        SHA256

        2ebc4a92f4fdc27d4ab56e57058575a8b18adb076cbd30feea2ecdc8b7fcd41f

        SHA512

        36e0524c465187ae9ad207c724aee45bcd61cfd3fa66a79f9434d24fcbadc0a743834d5e808e6041f3bd88e75deb5afd34193574f005ed97e4b17c6b0388cb93

      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\9DPC4P73NKHIRLNS2G0Z.temp

        Filesize

        7KB

        MD5

        b804efa724c3431bbb5401b9413e11e4

        SHA1

        035011155b4c789e6c099bb0a46d7d5c88f680fe

        SHA256

        b3d22f7449df8aaffca3346591348f86c85230aa2a3c934df8b9381df44487e8

        SHA512

        c3ef3f7e0ad271bd8a5526f34751f4a713860bf197cc696443adcada5a6838760725b5f549563c009a43fd4e7d78a1bb1c0095dde17c23ff664a4867aa4d727e

      • C:\Windows\sysarddrvs.exe

        Filesize

        79KB

        MD5

        e2e3268f813a0c5128ff8347cbaa58c8

        SHA1

        4952cbfbdec300c048808d79ee431972b8a7ba84

        SHA256

        d8b83f78ed905a7948e2e1e371f0f905bcaaabbb314c692fee408a454f8338a3

        SHA512

        cb5aeda8378a9a5470f33f2b70c22e77d2df97b162ba953eb16da085b3c434be31a5997eac11501db0cb612cdb30fa9045719fcd10c7227c56cc782558e0c3bc

      • \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1041932575.exe

        Filesize

        5.4MB

        MD5

        41ab08c1955fce44bfd0c76a64d1945a

        SHA1

        2b9cb05f4de5d98c541d15175d7f0199cbdd0eea

        SHA256

        dd12cb27b3867341bf6ca48715756500d3ec56c19b21bb1c1290806aa74cb493

        SHA512

        38834ae703a8541b4fec9a1db94cfe296ead58649bb1d4873b517df14d0c6a9d25e49ff04c2bf6bb0188845116a4e894aae930d849f9be8c98d2ce51da1ef116

      • \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\245342240.exe

        Filesize

        18KB

        MD5

        c53b73c89515e712a301a9d17e313900

        SHA1

        154b857b1ceec6938851e57baa0861b6a1fceb16

        SHA256

        6e24c56691c01a191e88f193966e04000fe5b83caa9b5adb4afebbd6cc717c68

        SHA512

        eeefbefd1c36f8493c58cda9dbfa9ae6580a7507fb99f1deb3f869348a7e92d702cdae50c4f035b31303717984b4282fa9777e92fdd1a0c70ec32f4e7063efc0

      • \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3294426235.exe

        Filesize

        10KB

        MD5

        9d3a5017e86fd5e182ca58c8293ffa3e

        SHA1

        242a24a7cda4f7c7a87c19c1ce036227b48f8235

        SHA256

        c339b1bf9947ba07e9203ebfdd6f41cf8414f4ef795d528c8f768eab0d136586

        SHA512

        009a35103362a59f83100425c702bf0072be3a3fa1afd508bc530f26a2b78f607ec70ffc4a2c929596943864b1a507a1ff4714bbfb4784d44d8dfa22084b710b

      • memory/960-62-0x000000013FB40000-0x00000001400B6000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        5.5MB

      • memory/1544-71-0x000000001B6B0000-0x000000001B992000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        2.9MB

      • memory/1544-72-0x0000000002280000-0x0000000002288000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        32KB

      • memory/1892-75-0x000000013F8F0000-0x000000013FE66000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        5.5MB

      • memory/2000-59-0x0000000001F00000-0x0000000001F08000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        32KB

      • memory/2000-58-0x000000001B420000-0x000000001B702000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        2.9MB

      • memory/2884-76-0x0000000000040000-0x0000000000060000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        128KB

      • memory/2884-77-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

        Filesize

        7.9MB