Malware Analysis Report

2025-08-05 18:13

Sample ID 241117-sb53fs1phy
Target file.exe
SHA256 b8023a418cda1632147a66c4378011d56cd199b6a17299275fde863123f549b6
Tags
discovery evasion trojan
score
10/10

Table of Contents

Analysis Overview

MITRE ATT&CK

Enterprise Matrix V15

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Signatures

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Command Line

Signatures

Processes

Network

Files

Analysis Overview

score
10/10

SHA256

b8023a418cda1632147a66c4378011d56cd199b6a17299275fde863123f549b6

Threat Level: Known bad

The file file.exe was found to be: Known bad.

Malicious Activity Summary

discovery evasion trojan

Modifies Windows Defender Real-time Protection settings

Identifies VirtualBox via ACPI registry values (likely anti-VM)

Windows security modification

Checks BIOS information in registry

Identifies Wine through registry keys

Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger

Launches sc.exe

Unsigned PE

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

MITRE ATT&CK

Analysis: static1

Detonation Overview

Reported

2024-11-17 14:58

Signatures

Unsigned PE

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A N/A N/A

Analysis: behavioral1

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-11-17 14:58

Reported

2024-11-17 15:00

Platform

win7-20240903-en

Max time kernel

119s

Max time network

123s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe"

Signatures

Modifies Windows Defender Real-time Protection settings

evasion trojan
Description Indicator Process Target
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableBehaviorMonitoring = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableIOAVProtection = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableOnAccessProtection = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableRealtimeMonitoring = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableScanOnRealtimeEnable = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Identifies VirtualBox via ACPI registry values (likely anti-VM)

evasion
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\ACPI\DSDT\VBOX__ C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Checks BIOS information in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosVersion C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\VideoBiosVersion C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Identifies Wine through registry keys

evasion
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3533259084-2542256011-65585152-1000\Software\Wine C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Windows security modification

evasion trojan
Description Indicator Process Target
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Features\TamperProtection = "0" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Features C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Description Indicator Process Target
Token: SeDebugPrivilege N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe"

Network

N/A

Files

memory/1712-0-0x0000000000070000-0x0000000000324000-memory.dmp

memory/1712-1-0x0000000000070000-0x0000000000324000-memory.dmp

memory/1712-2-0x0000000000070000-0x0000000000324000-memory.dmp

memory/1712-4-0x0000000000070000-0x0000000000324000-memory.dmp

memory/1712-6-0x0000000000070000-0x0000000000324000-memory.dmp

Analysis: behavioral2

Detonation Overview

Submitted

2024-11-17 14:58

Reported

2024-11-17 15:00

Platform

win10v2004-20241007-en

Max time kernel

127s

Max time network

151s

Command Line

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe"

Signatures

Modifies Windows Defender Real-time Protection settings

evasion trojan
Description Indicator Process Target
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableBehaviorMonitoring = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableIOAVProtection = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableOnAccessProtection = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableRealtimeMonitoring = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Real-Time Protection\DisableScanOnRealtimeEnable = "1" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Identifies VirtualBox via ACPI registry values (likely anti-VM)

evasion
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\ACPI\DSDT\VBOX__ C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Checks BIOS information in registry

Description Indicator Process Target
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosVersion C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Key value queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\VideoBiosVersion C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Identifies Wine through registry keys

evasion
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-3350944739-639801879-157714471-1000\Software\Wine C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Windows security modification

evasion trojan
Description Indicator Process Target
Key created \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Features C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
Set value (int) \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Features\TamperProtection = "0" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Launches sc.exe

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe N/A

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

discovery
Description Indicator Process Target
Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Description Indicator Process Target
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A
N/A N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Description Indicator Process Target
Token: SeDebugPrivilege N/A C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe N/A

Processes

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe

"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe"

C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe

C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe start wuauserv

Network

Country Destination Domain Proto
US 8.8.8.8:53 8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 149.220.183.52.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 172.210.232.199.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 95.221.229.192.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 50.23.12.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 198.187.3.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 232.168.11.51.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 241.150.49.20.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 172.214.232.199.in-addr.arpa udp
US 8.8.8.8:53 21.236.111.52.in-addr.arpa udp

Files

memory/1592-0-0x00000000003A0000-0x0000000000654000-memory.dmp

memory/1592-1-0x00000000003A0000-0x0000000000654000-memory.dmp

memory/1592-2-0x00000000003A0000-0x0000000000654000-memory.dmp

memory/1592-4-0x00000000003A0000-0x0000000000654000-memory.dmp

memory/1592-7-0x00000000003A0000-0x0000000000654000-memory.dmp