Extracted

• • Target

    file.exe

  • Size

    83KB

  • MD5

    06560b5e92d704395bc6dae58bc7e794

  • SHA1

    fbd3e4ae28620197d1f02bfc24adaf4ddacd2372

  • SHA256

    9eaaadf3857e4a3e83f4f78d96ab185213b6528c8e470807f9d16035daadf33d

  • SHA512

    b55b49fc1bd526c47d88fcf8a20fcaed900bfb291f2e3e1186ec196a87127ed24df71385ae04fedcc802c362c4ebf38edfc182013febf4496ddeb66ce5195ee3

  • SSDEEP

    1536:27zFjdFmav82WoPRgMRmtMJXlXXwfAbQaQG9MF7vRjoJrl:yRyO+oPKjoBAIcZF7vqrl

  Score

  10^/10

  phorphiexdiscoveryevasionexecutionloaderpersistencetrojanwormxmrigminer

  • 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

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

    execution

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

    Using powershell.exe command.

    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

  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

  behavioral1behavioral2