Extracted

• • Target

    https://file.io/8cjMN8IXROpy

  Score

  10^/10

  mercurialgrabberdiscoveryevasionpersistenceprivilege_escalationspywarestealer

  • Mercurial Grabber Stealer

    Mercurial Grabber is an open source stealer targeting Chrome, Discord and some game clients as well as generic system information.

    stealermercurialgrabber

  • Looks for VirtualBox Guest Additions in registry

    evasion

  • Downloads MZ/PE file

  • Looks for VMWare Tools registry key

    evasion

  • Checks BIOS information in registry

    BIOS information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Checks computer location settings

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

  • Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking

    Adversaries may establish persistence by executing malicious content triggered by hijacked references to Component Object Model (COM) objects.

    persistenceprivilege_escalation

  • Executes dropped EXE

  • Loads dropped DLL

  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers

    Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.

    spywarestealer

  • Adds Run key to start application

    persistence

  • Blocklisted process makes network request

  • Checks installed software on the system

    Looks up Uninstall key entries in the registry to enumerate software on the system.

    discovery

  • Enumerates connected drives

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Legitimate hosting services abused for malware hosting/C2

  • Looks up external IP address via web service

    Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.

  • Maps connected drives based on registry

    Disk information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  behavioral1