Malware Analysis Report

2025-05-05 21:47

Sample ID 240830-vf8egswamq
Target INQUIRY.exe
SHA256 30507f7743a936de9f2e37f444a6fbfd7f5d684c9d22cd9354d1967e5333a89a
Tags
vipkeylogger discovery execution keylogger stealer collection credential_access spyware
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V15

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

30507f7743a936de9f2e37f444a6fbfd7f5d684c9d22cd9354d1967e5333a89a

Threat Level: Known bad

The file INQUIRY.exe was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

vipkeylogger discovery execution keylogger stealer collection credential_access spyware

VIPKeylogger

Credentials from Password Stores: Credentials from Web Browsers

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Reads user/profile data of local email clients

Reads user/profile data of web browsers

Checks computer location settings

Looks up external IP address via web service

Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

Browser Information Discovery

Program crash

Enumerates physical storage devices

outlook_win_path

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

outlook_office_path

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2024-08-30 16:57

Signatures

N/A

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-08-30 16:57

Reported

2024-08-30 16:59

Platform

win10v2004-20240802-en

Max time kernel

137s

Max time network

105s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

Signatures

VIPKeylogger

stealer keylogger vipkeylogger

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

execution
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe N/A

Checks computer location settings

Description Indicator Process Target
Key value queried \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-945322488-2060912225-3527527000-1000\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A

Looks up external IP address via web service

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A checkip.dyndns.org N/A N/A

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 3160 set thread context of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

Enumerates physical storage devices

Program crash

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe N/A

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Description Indicator Process Target
Token: SeDebugPrivilege N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Token: SeDebugPrivilege N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Token: SeDebugPrivilege N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 868 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 868 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 868 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 428 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 428 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 428 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 3160 wrote to memory of 756 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 432 -p 756 -ip 756

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 756 -s 1484

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 196.249.167.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 81.144.22.2.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 0.159.190.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 95.221.229.192.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 228.249.119.40.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 28.118.140.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 checkip.dyndns.org udp
JP 132.226.8.169:80 checkip.dyndns.org tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 169.8.226.132.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 86.23.85.13.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 171.39.242.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 107.12.20.2.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 172.214.232.199.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 48.229.111.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 tse1.mm.bing.net udp
US 150.171.27.10:443 tse1.mm.bing.net tcp
US 150.171.27.10:443 tse1.mm.bing.net tcp
US 150.171.27.10:443 tse1.mm.bing.net tcp
US 150.171.27.10:443 tse1.mm.bing.net tcp
US 150.171.27.10:443 tse1.mm.bing.net tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 55.36.223.20.in-addr.arpa udp

Files

memory/3160-0-0x0000000074A6E000-0x0000000074A6F000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-1-0x0000000000820000-0x00000000008D4000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-2-0x0000000005800000-0x0000000005DA4000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-3-0x00000000052F0000-0x0000000005382000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-4-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-5-0x00000000052E0000-0x00000000052EA000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-6-0x00000000057E0000-0x00000000057F8000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-7-0x0000000074A6E000-0x0000000074A6F000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-8-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-9-0x00000000065E0000-0x000000000666A000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-10-0x0000000006870000-0x000000000690C000-memory.dmp

memory/756-11-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/3160-13-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/756-14-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/868-15-0x00000000022C0000-0x00000000022F6000-memory.dmp

memory/868-16-0x0000000004E50000-0x0000000005478000-memory.dmp

memory/756-17-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/868-18-0x0000000005480000-0x00000000054A2000-memory.dmp

memory/868-20-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_aev0emve.lsb.ps1

MD5 d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641
SHA1 6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d
SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
SHA512 5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82

memory/868-21-0x0000000005590000-0x00000000055F6000-memory.dmp

memory/868-19-0x0000000005520000-0x0000000005586000-memory.dmp

memory/868-27-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/868-32-0x0000000005600000-0x0000000005954000-memory.dmp

memory/868-33-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/868-34-0x0000000005BE0000-0x0000000005BFE000-memory.dmp

memory/868-35-0x0000000005C30000-0x0000000005C7C000-memory.dmp

memory/756-36-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

memory/868-37-0x0000000006BD0000-0x0000000006C02000-memory.dmp

memory/868-38-0x0000000070470000-0x00000000704BC000-memory.dmp

memory/868-48-0x00000000061E0000-0x00000000061FE000-memory.dmp

memory/868-49-0x0000000006C10000-0x0000000006CB3000-memory.dmp

memory/868-51-0x0000000006F20000-0x0000000006F3A000-memory.dmp

memory/868-50-0x0000000007560000-0x0000000007BDA000-memory.dmp

memory/868-52-0x0000000006F90000-0x0000000006F9A000-memory.dmp

memory/868-53-0x00000000071A0000-0x0000000007236000-memory.dmp

memory/868-54-0x0000000007120000-0x0000000007131000-memory.dmp

memory/868-56-0x0000000007160000-0x0000000007174000-memory.dmp

memory/868-55-0x0000000007150000-0x000000000715E000-memory.dmp

memory/868-57-0x0000000007260000-0x000000000727A000-memory.dmp

memory/868-58-0x0000000007240000-0x0000000007248000-memory.dmp

memory/868-61-0x0000000074A60000-0x0000000075210000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-08-30 16:57

Reported

2024-08-30 16:59

Platform

win7-20240729-en

Max time kernel

57s

Max time network

144s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

Signatures

VIPKeylogger

stealer keylogger vipkeylogger

Credentials from Password Stores: Credentials from Web Browsers

credential_access stealer

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

execution
Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe N/A

Reads user/profile data of local email clients

spyware stealer

Reads user/profile data of web browsers

spyware stealer

Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles

collection
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2257386474-3982792636-3902186748-1000\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2257386474-3982792636-3902186748-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2257386474-3982792636-3902186748-1000\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A

Looks up external IP address via web service

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A checkip.dyndns.org N/A N/A

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1724 set thread context of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

Browser Information Discovery

discovery

Enumerates physical storage devices

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe N/A

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Description Indicator Process Target
Token: SeDebugPrivilege N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A
Token: SeDebugPrivilege N/A C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe N/A

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Description Indicator Process Target
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2372 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2372 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2372 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2372 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe
PID 1724 wrote to memory of 2080 N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

outlook_office_path

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2257386474-3982792636-3902186748-1000\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A

outlook_win_path

Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2257386474-3982792636-3902186748-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676 C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\INQUIRY.exe"

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 checkip.dyndns.org udp
US 193.122.130.0:80 checkip.dyndns.org tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 reallyfreegeoip.org udp
US 104.21.67.152:443 reallyfreegeoip.org tcp
US 8.8.8.8:53 api.telegram.org udp
NL 149.154.167.220:443 api.telegram.org tcp

Files

memory/1724-0-0x00000000740FE000-0x00000000740FF000-memory.dmp

memory/1724-1-0x0000000001090000-0x0000000001144000-memory.dmp

memory/1724-2-0x00000000740F0000-0x00000000747DE000-memory.dmp

memory/1724-3-0x00000000004F0000-0x0000000000508000-memory.dmp

memory/1724-4-0x00000000740FE000-0x00000000740FF000-memory.dmp

memory/1724-5-0x00000000740F0000-0x00000000747DE000-memory.dmp

memory/1724-6-0x0000000005AA0000-0x0000000005B2A000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-8-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-13-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-15-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-19-0x00000000740F0000-0x00000000747DE000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-11-0x000000007EFDE000-0x000000007EFDF000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-10-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-9-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-18-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-7-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

memory/1724-20-0x00000000740F0000-0x00000000747DE000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-21-0x00000000740F0000-0x00000000747DE000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-24-0x00000000740F0000-0x00000000747DE000-memory.dmp

memory/2080-25-0x00000000740F0000-0x00000000747DE000-memory.dmp