Extracted

• • Target

    18347a1245d3b3f89c564c0f7e9c1cd656208e9a82cde9e7ad35038ed49ec493

  • Size

    2.7MB

  • MD5

    b8d9d380a99d6ab4e1b7057a5e2ce1fc

  • SHA1

    547a856aa5696d0fced42876e6c2599fa94d75d9

  • SHA256

    18347a1245d3b3f89c564c0f7e9c1cd656208e9a82cde9e7ad35038ed49ec493

  • SHA512

    16744ac25c80124ad69052c6b6729f55f1c78d26ed741f7dbb8be6815a586f665fe21c9d394eb14ad8c246a3d3bc93fb435fc5191f3731591b4d070fdd6d6ff8

  • SSDEEP

    49152:li/5nVhfVnQiGmEwZbyVKf3tOOr/o2rm0mMXgT11rNjiG0C+0LRzas:c/5nVZarmEwZecPzJWDLN+GwOn

  Score

  10^/10

  phorphiexxmrigdiscoveryevasionexecutionloaderminerpersistencetrojanworm

  • 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

    Using powershell.exe command.

    execution

  • 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

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