Extracted

• • Target

    2024-10-23_cd3237b1e648d31b8761196b6c64da8a_cobalt-strike_ryuk

  • Size

    618KB

  • MD5

    cd3237b1e648d31b8761196b6c64da8a

  • SHA1

    2e677b7cafc3a8ee1696dddf38b176191d256559

  • SHA256

    ee4e23ea2bbf4c0b99adb8dffbac03dc7e9f4154c8dfba11b15c6711019a2ef7

  • SHA512

    d71338a7de6f1859edcbbd9ed0a32430e0561f8ae91883c62e6fbc4bc2d082ebd1d538312ef42543385c514ced0166c552fe211debf783f0deae82530045e4d7

  • SSDEEP

    12288:QmKt6DsU6ngc3kY+KC5gzwGKZ4cuQW8XQAL019bqoFARwpVp:QR8Y+sxYWkX019bqgWwpVp

  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

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