Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    147s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20240802-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20240802-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    03/10/2024, 15:51

General

  • Target
    D4BBC125A9E94DE44F4DEEA9D6B10ADC87A1EC1AEDD753B39D26BB15817FDADB.exe
  • Size 107KB
  • Sample241003-tagtxaxale
  • SHA256 d4bbc125a9e94de44f4deea9d6b10adc87a1ec1aedd753b39d26bb15817fdadb
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • phorphiex

C2
  • http://185.215.113.66/

  • http://91.202.233.141/

Wallets
  • 0xCa90599132C4D88907Bd8E046540284aa468a035

  • TRuGGXNDM1cavQ1AqMQHG8yfxP4QWVSMN6

  • qph44jx8r9k5xeq5cuf958krv3ewrnp5vc6hhdjd3r

  • XryzFMFVpDUvU7famUGf214EXD3xNUSmQf

  • rsXCXBf9SagxV8JfC12d8Bybk84oPdMNN9

  • AULzfBuUAPfCGAXoG5Vq14aP9s6fx3AH4Z

  • LTK4xdKPAgFHPLan8kriAD7eY4heyy73mB

  • MP8GEm8QpYgQYaMo8oM5NQhRBgDGiLZW5Q

  • 15TssKwtjMtwy4vDLcLsQUZUD2B9f7eDjw85sBNVC5LRPPnC

  • 1BzmrjmKPKSR2hH5BeJySfiVA676E8DYaK

  • ltc1qt0n3f0t7vz9k0mvcswk477shrxwjhf9sj5ykrp

  • 3PMiLynrGVZ8oEqvoqC4hXD67B1WoALR4pc

  • 3BiS1jaRpWtkqtfZGp9f1rXXts5DyUkaBX

  • DLUzwvyxN1RrwjByUPPzVMdfxNRPGVRMMA

  • t1J6GCPCiHW1eRdjJgDDu6b1vSVmL5U7Twh

  • stars125f3mw4xd9htpsq4zj5w5ezm5gags37yxxh6mj

  • bnb1msyt0djx4ecspfxg5en0ye465kg3kmv9utzml2

  • bc1ppypcmu3684n648gyj62gjp2rw0xy7w3vwfamatlg29ajp4z52desafa0sr

  • bc1qc9edl4hzl9jyt8twdad3zjeh2df2znq96tdezd

  • bitcoincash:qph44jx8r9k5xeq5cuf958krv3ewrnp5vc6hhdjd3r

Attributes
  • mutex

    x877d7osne

  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Signatures

  • Modifies security service 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Phorphiex payload 1 IoCs
  • Phorphiex, Phorpiex

    Phorphiex or Phorpiex Malware family which infects systems to distribute other malicious payloads such as ransomware, stealers and cryptominers.

  • Windows security bypass 2 TTPs 6 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

  • Stops running service(s) 4 TTPs
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Windows security modification 2 TTPs 7 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 2 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 10 IoCs

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 29 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\D4BBC125A9E94DE44F4DEEA9D6B10ADC87A1EC1AEDD753B39D26BB15817FDADB.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\D4BBC125A9E94DE44F4DEEA9D6B10ADC87A1EC1AEDD753B39D26BB15817FDADB.exe"
    1⤵
    • Adds Run key to start application
    • Drops file in Windows directory
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:400
    • C:\Windows\sysblvrvcr.exe
      C:\Windows\sysblvrvcr.exe
      2⤵
      • Modifies security service
      • Windows security bypass
      • Checks computer location settings
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Windows security modification
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1292
      • 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"
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:3936
        • 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"
          4⤵
          • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:4696
      • 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 /wait
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4808
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
          sc stop UsoSvc
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:824
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
          sc stop WaaSMedicSvc
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:2144
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
          sc stop wuauserv
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:1904
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
          sc stop DoSvc
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:2132
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
          sc stop BITS /wait
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:1908
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1787226207.exe
        C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1787226207.exe
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:2796
        • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Windows Upgrade Manager" /f
          4⤵
            PID:3040
          • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c schtasks /delete /f /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager"
            4⤵
              PID:2132

      Network

            MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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            Downloads

            1[1]

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE\THHXO5RX\1[1]
            • Size 108KB
            • SHA256 84652bb8c63ca4fd7eb7a2d6ef44029801f3057aa2961867245a3a765928dd02
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            1787226207.exe

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1787226207.exe
            • Size 8KB
            • SHA256 5850892f67f85991b31fc90f62c8b7791afeb3c08ae1877d857aa2b59471a2ea
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            __PSScriptPolicyTest_ch2jyrun.55d.ps1

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_ch2jyrun.55d.ps1
            • Size 60B
            • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

            sysblvrvcr.exe

            • Path C:\Windows\sysblvrvcr.exe
            • Size 107KB
            • SHA256 d4bbc125a9e94de44f4deea9d6b10adc87a1ec1aedd753b39d26bb15817fdadb
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

            memory/2796-65-0x0000000000290000-0x0000000000296000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-33-0x0000000006F00000-0x0000000006F1E000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-37-0x00000000070D0000-0x00000000070DA000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-19-0x0000000005730000-0x0000000005A84000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-20-0x0000000005D20000-0x0000000005D3E000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-21-0x0000000005DC0000-0x0000000005E0C000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-22-0x0000000006310000-0x0000000006342000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-23-0x000000006F940000-0x000000006F98C000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-8-0x0000000005650000-0x00000000056B6000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-34-0x0000000006F20000-0x0000000006FC3000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-35-0x0000000007700000-0x0000000007D7A000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-36-0x0000000007050000-0x000000000706A000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-9-0x00000000056C0000-0x0000000005726000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-38-0x00000000072D0000-0x0000000007366000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-39-0x0000000007260000-0x0000000007271000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-40-0x0000000007290000-0x000000000729E000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-41-0x00000000072A0000-0x00000000072B4000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-42-0x0000000007390000-0x00000000073AA000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-43-0x0000000007370000-0x0000000007378000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-7-0x0000000004DA0000-0x0000000004DC2000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-6-0x0000000004E30000-0x0000000005458000-memory.dmp

            memory/4696-5-0x00000000047C0000-0x00000000047F6000-memory.dmp