Extracted

• • Target

    2b17efc643286fc7e12691516863b240N.exe

  • Size

    550KB

  • MD5

    2b17efc643286fc7e12691516863b240

  • SHA1

    bf132fd0430995ac7d147c6629266ed4d58831f9

  • SHA256

    44ffdb33876a0ea3ceec4348686ea94d204ed62428929ed565ed5b5dde064558

  • SHA512

    9ef18727a62cadffcd4d8a556c8c45d4015811cdc006eebddfecc6b58bb8fddf2ab373ea634300d0ad197affc449978558ceedc735516a4c402812e7990729e0

  • SSDEEP

    12288:9vP+BNSebhEFoUbElY7dx0Gyz1batvexYw:YhiFoUbEwdngxYw

  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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