Extracted

• • Target
    73781e5d1dec36623b34bea8869720423d535ceaad374873aa063e6902d7a7a4
  • Size 2.6MB
  • SHA256 73781e5d1dec36623b34bea8869720423d535ceaad374873aa063e6902d7a7a4
  • MD5 4880d653fe05521ce2bc23d8017c6f3e
  • SHA1 0b00c10fd7c796f62d5ef95010f1fd448016b3f3
  • SHA512 82ac91fe4d553f8cbb9c323bd1c7f26ff2cf8a007663c0536e938d57ec8392d7f97847bb7fa0477654fa4960a0e73f5428dc7621ce5152d1c8d085a20f4b9f15
  • SSDEEP 49152:TSL5CzlMktoOxSO8N806RDnVyTG066LqS8IBUYyaLAH8MCpeELjW27c4inkRYROl:TSEzikGhLwyTG06i1oUv7Lj1OpvdsxJC
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

  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

    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