Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    147s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20241007-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20241007-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    11/10/2024, 04:19

General

  • Target
    e7be4052b88e0042232a0f96fe91d626fb498d0bf6fcfede7977b4d2e80fb39a.exe
  • Size 1.2MB
  • Sample241011-exycvavdrf
  • SHA256 e7be4052b88e0042232a0f96fe91d626fb498d0bf6fcfede7977b4d2e80fb39a
  • 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

  • 4BB7ckkaPTyADc8trtuwDoZxywaR4eNL5cDJ3KBjq9GraN4mUFztf7mLS7WgT7Bh7uPqpjvA4ypVwXKCJ1vvLWWAFvSmDoD

  • 15TssKwtjMtwy4vDLcLsQUZUD2B9f7eDjw85sBNVC5LRPPnC

  • 1BzmrjmKPKSR2hH5BeJySfiVA676E8DYaK

  • ltc1qt0n3f0t7vz9k0mvcswk477shrxwjhf9sj5ykrp

  • 3PMiLynrGVZ8oEqvoqC4hXD67B1WoALR4pc

  • 3ESHude8zUHksQg1h6hHmzY79BS36L91Yn

  • DLUzwvyxN1RrwjByUPPzVMdfxNRPGVRMMA

  • t1J6GCPCiHW1eRdjJgDDu6b1vSVmL5U7Twh

  • stars125f3mw4xd9htpsq4zj5w5ezm5gags37yxxh6mj

  • bnb1msyt0djx4ecspfxg5en0ye465kg3kmv9utzml2

  • bc1ppypcmu3684n648gyj62gjp2rw0xy7w3vwfamatlg29ajp4z52desafa0sr

  • bc1qc9edl4hzl9jyt8twdad3zjeh2df2znq96tdezd

Attributes
  • mutex

    mmn7nnm8na

  • 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.

  • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess 5 IoCs
  • Windows security bypass 2 TTPs 6 IoCs
  • xmrig

    XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

  • XMRig Miner payload 3 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

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

  • Downloads MZ/PE file
  • Stops running service(s) 4 TTPs
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 2 IoCs

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

  • Executes dropped EXE 8 IoCs
  • Windows security modification 2 TTPs 7 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 2 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 14 IoCs

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 17 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 53 IoCs
  • Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs

    The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.

Processes

  • C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    1⤵
      PID:3440
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\e7be4052b88e0042232a0f96fe91d626fb498d0bf6fcfede7977b4d2e80fb39a.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\e7be4052b88e0042232a0f96fe91d626fb498d0bf6fcfede7977b4d2e80fb39a.exe"
        2⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:5076
        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7F23.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7F23.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:4896
          • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1372013233.exe
            C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1372013233.exe
            4⤵
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Adds Run key to start application
            • Drops file in Windows directory
            • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:2652
            • C:\Windows\sysppvrdnvs.exe
              C:\Windows\sysppvrdnvs.exe
              5⤵
              • 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:2156
              • 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"
                6⤵
                • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:4564
                • 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"
                  7⤵
                  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
                  PID:1852
              • 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
                6⤵
                • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:3564
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                  sc stop UsoSvc
                  7⤵
                  • Launches sc.exe
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  PID:2184
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                  sc stop WaaSMedicSvc
                  7⤵
                  • Launches sc.exe
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  PID:4748
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                  sc stop wuauserv
                  7⤵
                  • Launches sc.exe
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  PID:4092
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                  sc stop DoSvc
                  7⤵
                  • Launches sc.exe
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  PID:2420
                • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
                  sc stop BITS /wait
                  7⤵
                  • Launches sc.exe
                  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                  PID:4960
              • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2676528828.exe
                C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2676528828.exe
                6⤵
                • Checks computer location settings
                • Executes dropped EXE
                • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:1368
                • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
                  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Windows Upgrade Manager" /f
                  7⤵
                  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                  PID:348
                  • C:\Windows\system32\reg.exe
                    reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Windows Upgrade Manager" /f
                    8⤵
                      PID:3696
                  • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
                    "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c schtasks /delete /f /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager"
                    7⤵
                    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                    PID:4924
                    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
                      schtasks /delete /f /tn "Windows Upgrade Manager"
                      8⤵
                        PID:3088
                  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1135720297.exe
                    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1135720297.exe
                    6⤵
                    • Executes dropped EXE
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    PID:2700
                  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2903716859.exe
                    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2903716859.exe
                    6⤵
                    • Executes dropped EXE
                    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
                    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                    PID:3676
                    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1081410386.exe
                      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1081410386.exe
                      7⤵
                      • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
                      • Executes dropped EXE
                      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                      PID:2188
          • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
            C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe <#evrkcgqew#> IF([System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version -lt [System.Version]"6.2") { schtasks /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn 'Microsoft Windows Security' /tr '''C:\Users\Admin\Microsoft Windows Security\winupsecvmgr.exe''' } Else { Register-ScheduledTask -Action (New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'C:\Users\Admin\Microsoft Windows Security\winupsecvmgr.exe') -Trigger (New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtLogOn) -Settings (New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries -DisallowHardTerminate -DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries -DontStopOnIdleEnd -ExecutionTimeLimit (New-TimeSpan -Days 1000)) -TaskName 'Microsoft Windows Security' -RunLevel 'Highest' -Force; }
            2⤵
            • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            PID:4108
          • C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
            C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "Microsoft Windows Security"
            2⤵
              PID:1772
            • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
              C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe <#evrkcgqew#> IF([System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version -lt [System.Version]"6.2") { schtasks /create /f /sc onlogon /rl highest /tn 'Microsoft Windows Security' /tr '''C:\Users\Admin\Microsoft Windows Security\winupsecvmgr.exe''' } Else { Register-ScheduledTask -Action (New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'C:\Users\Admin\Microsoft Windows Security\winupsecvmgr.exe') -Trigger (New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -AtLogOn) -Settings (New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries -DisallowHardTerminate -DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries -DontStopOnIdleEnd -ExecutionTimeLimit (New-TimeSpan -Days 1000)) -TaskName 'Microsoft Windows Security' -RunLevel 'Highest' -Force; }
              2⤵
              • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
              • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
              PID:4228
            • C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe
              C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe
              2⤵
                PID:3960
              • C:\Windows\System32\dwm.exe
                C:\Windows\System32\dwm.exe
                2⤵
                  PID:3124
              • C:\Users\Admin\Microsoft Windows Security\winupsecvmgr.exe
                "C:\Users\Admin\Microsoft Windows Security\winupsecvmgr.exe"
                1⤵
                • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
                • Executes dropped EXE
                • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
                • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
                • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
                PID:4516

              Network

                    MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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                    Downloads

                    powershell.exe.log

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
                    • Size 3KB
                    • SHA256 dbd4136bc342e3e92902ec3a30d165452c82997a7ae24ac90775e42d88959e6b
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

                    1[1]

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE\321WJBEQ\1[1]
                    • Size 108KB
                    • SHA256 84652bb8c63ca4fd7eb7a2d6ef44029801f3057aa2961867245a3a765928dd02
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
                    • Size 18KB
                    • SHA256 2ad00ce0af9e0a41e9341c94eaa542e4398db863ababbf46ae6772f37dd1dbd6
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
                    • Size 1KB
                    • SHA256 342ce7c39bf9992d31d4b61ef138b2b084c96c74736ed00bb19aae49be16ca02
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

                    1081410386.exe

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1081410386.exe
                    • Size 5.6MB
                    • SHA256 1753ad35ece25ab9a19048c70062e9170f495e313d7355ebbba59c38f5d90256
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    1135720297.exe

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1135720297.exe
                    • Size 15KB
                    • SHA256 981d724feebc36777e99513dc061d1f009e589f965c920797285c46d863060d1
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    1372013233.exe

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1372013233.exe
                    • Size 83KB
                    • SHA256 9eaaadf3857e4a3e83f4f78d96ab185213b6528c8e470807f9d16035daadf33d
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    2676528828.exe

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2676528828.exe
                    • Size 8KB
                    • SHA256 5850892f67f85991b31fc90f62c8b7791afeb3c08ae1877d857aa2b59471a2ea
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    2903716859.exe

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2903716859.exe
                    • Size 10KB
                    • SHA256 a9de2927b0ec45cf900508fec18531c04ee9fa8a5dfe2fc82c67d9458cf4b744
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    7F23.exe

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7F23.exe
                    • Size 9KB
                    • SHA256 feb4c3ae4566f0acbb9e0f55417b61fefd89dc50a4e684df780813fb01d61278
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

                    __PSScriptPolicyTest_0cmp3hiu.d3e.ps1

                    • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_0cmp3hiu.d3e.ps1
                    • Size 60B
                    • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
                    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

                    memory/1368-78-0x0000000000DD0000-0x0000000000DD6000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-33-0x0000000005A80000-0x0000000005DD4000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-34-0x0000000005FA0000-0x0000000005FBE000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-37-0x0000000070040000-0x000000007008C000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-47-0x0000000006570000-0x000000000658E000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-48-0x0000000007190000-0x0000000007233000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-49-0x0000000007950000-0x0000000007FCA000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-50-0x00000000072D0000-0x00000000072EA000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-51-0x0000000007320000-0x000000000732A000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-52-0x0000000007530000-0x00000000075C6000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-53-0x00000000074D0000-0x00000000074E1000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-54-0x00000000074F0000-0x00000000074FE000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-55-0x0000000007500000-0x0000000007514000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-56-0x00000000075F0000-0x000000000760A000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-57-0x00000000075D0000-0x00000000075D8000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-35-0x0000000005FC0000-0x000000000600C000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-36-0x0000000007150000-0x0000000007182000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-22-0x0000000005290000-0x00000000052F6000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-23-0x0000000005300000-0x0000000005366000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-21-0x00000000050F0000-0x0000000005112000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-20-0x0000000005450000-0x0000000005A78000-memory.dmp

                    memory/1852-19-0x00000000029B0000-0x00000000029E6000-memory.dmp

                    memory/2188-124-0x00007FF659DE0000-0x00007FF65A377000-memory.dmp

                    memory/3124-143-0x000001A859950000-0x000001A859970000-memory.dmp

                    memory/3124-145-0x00007FF754360000-0x00007FF754B4F000-memory.dmp

                    memory/3124-147-0x00007FF754360000-0x00007FF754B4F000-memory.dmp

                    memory/3960-144-0x00007FF6BD0C0000-0x00007FF6BD0E9000-memory.dmp

                    memory/3960-146-0x00007FF6BD0C0000-0x00007FF6BD0E9000-memory.dmp

                    memory/4108-109-0x0000021EEF3D0000-0x0000021EEF3F2000-memory.dmp

                    memory/4516-142-0x00007FF604090000-0x00007FF604627000-memory.dmp

                    memory/5076-13-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000530DB0-memory.dmp

                    memory/5076-7-0x0000000002FE0000-0x0000000002FE1000-memory.dmp