Analysis
- max time kernel
150s - max time network
150s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20240802-en - resource tags
arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20240802-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system - submitted
05/09/2024, 01:02
Static task
static1
1 signatures
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe
Resource
win7-20240903-en
13 signatures
150 seconds
General
- Target 0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe
- Size 14.2MB
- Sample240905-bd3lns1cjf
- SHA256 0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d
- MD5 741b1f2ee5826897af2ba2ec765296e4
- SHA1 706534d9c6a16354974b3b6fd6d1f620524b7dd1
- SHA512 a0b14ab280d906a8ad1681e335d30a457b02355cc941d12208f2ef460a9b1f700b84789749ee2080fb4351cce09e3cceeb9fea94478c3c81ae1fb184892de03a
- SSDEEP 196608:q1X5v7sGYYHDZH3OrlZPtgLklkC9sSJP/rSzQHvWSpdUorPr/kvmXhJ9aCD:qHqDVgV+9kQH+SfLdrnD
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP
Malware Config
Extracted
Family
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xworm
Version
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5.0
C2
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45.141.26.197:7000
Mutex
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9nYi5R05H806aXaO
Attributes
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Install_directory
%AppData%
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install_file
VLC_Media.exe
aes.plain
Signatures
- Detect Xworm Payload 2 IoCs
resource yara_rule behavioral2/files/0x00070000000233c0-22.dat family_xworm behavioral2/memory/4528-27-0x0000000000330000-0x0000000000362000-memory.dmp family_xworm - Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.
pid Process 1676 powershell.exe 4004 powershell.exe 3552 powershell.exe 652 powershell.exe - Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
description ioc Process Key value queried \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2412658365-3084825385-3340777666-1000\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation 0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe Key value queried \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2412658365-3084825385-3340777666-1000\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation VLC_Media.exe.exe - Drops startup file 2 IoCs
description ioc Process File created C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\VLC_Media.lnk VLC_Media.exe.exe File opened for modification C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\VLC_Media.lnk VLC_Media.exe.exe - Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
pid Process 1296 XWorm V5.4.exe 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe - Loads dropped DLL 1 IoCs
pid Process 1296 XWorm V5.4.exe - Obfuscated with Agile.Net obfuscator 2 IoCs
Detects use of the Agile.Net commercial obfuscator, which is capable of entity renaming and control flow obfuscation.
resource yara_rule behavioral2/files/0x00080000000233b9-6.dat agile_net behavioral2/memory/1296-25-0x0000021EDAA50000-0x0000021EDB830000-memory.dmp agile_net - Looks up external IP address via web service 1 IoCs
Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.
flow ioc 14 ip-api.com - Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 9 IoCs
pid Process 3552 powershell.exe 3552 powershell.exe 652 powershell.exe 652 powershell.exe 1676 powershell.exe 1676 powershell.exe 4004 powershell.exe 4004 powershell.exe 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 7 IoCs
description pid Process Token: SeDebugPrivilege 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 1296 XWorm V5.4.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 3552 powershell.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 652 powershell.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 1676 powershell.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 4004 powershell.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe - Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
pid Process 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 12 IoCs
description pid Process procid_target PID 116 wrote to memory of 1296 116 0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe 86 PID 116 wrote to memory of 1296 116 0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe 86 PID 116 wrote to memory of 4528 116 0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe 87 PID 116 wrote to memory of 4528 116 0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe 87 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 3552 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 91 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 3552 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 91 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 652 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 94 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 652 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 94 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 1676 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 96 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 1676 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 96 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 4004 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 98 PID 4528 wrote to memory of 4004 4528 VLC_Media.exe.exe 98
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\0b142a5773fcd9ae5cbb967f748e8da9a89e74aa50a0e1cd52f3aaa313bc749d.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:116 -
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XWorm V5.4.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XWorm V5.4.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:1296
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\VLC_Media.exe.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\VLC_Media.exe.exe"2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Drops startup file
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:4528 -
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\VLC_Media.exe.exe'3⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:3552
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'VLC_Media.exe.exe'3⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:652
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\VLC_Media.exe'3⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:1676
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'VLC_Media.exe'3⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:4004
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15
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Downloads
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
- Size 2KB
- SHA256 84739c608a73509419748e4e20e6cc4e1846056c3fe1929a8300d5a1a488202f
- MD5 d85ba6ff808d9e5444a4b369f5bc2730
- SHA1 31aa9d96590fff6981b315e0b391b575e4c0804a
- SHA512 8c414eb55b45212af385accc16d9d562adba2123583ce70d22b91161fe878683845512a78f04dedd4ea98ed9b174dbfa98cf696370598ad8e6fbd1e714f1f249
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
- Size 944B
- SHA256 5ab6a1726f425c6d0158f55eb8d81754ddedd51e651aa0a899a29b7a58619c4c
- MD5 6d42b6da621e8df5674e26b799c8e2aa
- SHA1 ab3ce1327ea1eeedb987ec823d5e0cb146bafa48
- SHA512 53faffbda8a835bc1143e894c118c15901a5fd09cfc2224dd2f754c06dc794897315049a579b9a8382d4564f071576045aaaf824019b7139d939152dca38ce29
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
- Size 944B
- SHA256 8313a191aa9d11cce868d95ac9a9b1609275bfe93131fcb6e547b985b0242fbe
- MD5 a9293ef980c925abe33d940554ed8575
- SHA1 9b6d85f2595f7fd4923f52b21ab7607279066969
- SHA512 2003d90bb2bc89378ccaeb9c5edf76b2dfd93c80369d063e56141abb8d7fea6acee6a103874ab227bc1548437269c8e4ee5174bf482ecf3d66c38f3e0ba35d85
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
- Size 944B
- SHA256 379edfe30884f6a1cb768e452d396f62153e78b403a6fb7de1110b70c2588661
- MD5 1d8f06fa1ef770018c9cdb814d1bc2c8
- SHA1 0cf4d2f16ca9a3d292ae546557f1f8aa69fe4cd5
- SHA512 864715e262bba9af268ca5a03ac2a78c5a5d8a77e32a7933b9e93639240b8c7f1d900b4e2adc19f271b29ff5a75f2d2f5192068739755803f6f8abd87ef8610b
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\VLC_Media.exe.exe
- Size 176KB
- SHA256 44661d9d0df9aa2e03844719c9e6963a738e431c565f0983d309a0e113508d17
- MD5 a9376f54dd83bf547f6188f8904ae3af
- SHA1 85bb802b0ade5b2136c83e6217a2aaace3735edc
- SHA512 71a4e6251e201441ccc1ae9633790b977a898e6f42b0d25f4c54d66d99311dad5b63e25f7ac703e932db5a526290f95e9abfe2158b72cd21e8564ac1942a48a9
- SSDEEP 3072:Lf05a/CTJ99Fc9U3OMuA2ewhLapuvpAsZOyMqmyBeYVYk:CJ9Dc95/GWGwqqm1
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XWorm V5.4.exe
- Size 13.8MB
- SHA256 4786ac3ceb9ecdcb98bdd19a0e93750e6c9c0df460751994840f8ea9733cc491
- MD5 efb0528d6978337e964d999dacb621df
- SHA1 244979b8495d3d173a4359d62ad771f99a0033fc
- SHA512 4b16aca5638094741a9e5f0e4581b5c3cdbd77835035362468d2a0e077fba0f96b8dd98c4a4ea853b3b623d5b525fe64091daa1b761597b660840a371fbae0df
- SSDEEP 196608:msZttF81Wco24/vt8Kf67RQCTbJev4Z4t2WL8PSlsZA6G:mEtM1VR4cRZ0QZaL8qlsZVG
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_am5oadml.44u.ps1
- Size 60B
- SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
- MD5 d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641
- SHA1 6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d
- SHA512 5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ogpXG\ogpXG.dll
- Size 112KB
- SHA256 47578a37901c82f66e4dba47acd5c3cab6d09c9911d16f5ad0413275342147ed
- MD5 2f1a50031dcf5c87d92e8b2491fdcea6
- SHA1 71e2aaa2d1bb7dbe32a00e1d01d744830ecce08f
- SHA512 1c66dbe1320c1a84023bdf77686a2a7ab79a3e86ba5a4ea2cda9a37f8a916137d5cfec30b28ceae181355f6f279270465ef63ae90b7e8dcd4c1a8198a7fd36a8
- SSDEEP 3072:LrNI5AiELn1Sf6T2JFRwkzDyc69rJMWI/S:LBIcA3JFR2rkK
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP