tofsee | 139e64db57e15d0129b764d51604e08ca03cfca2ec62965f6f7dba5c43f3c62b

Analysis

max time kernel
147s
max time network
123s
platform
windows7_x64
resource
win7-20241010-en
resource tags

arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20241010-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
submitted
27-12-2024 20:22

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General

Target

2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe
Size

10.6MB
MD5

d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4
SHA1

2426924cb0e0e6097d9132075aed054bc991a81a
SHA256

139e64db57e15d0129b764d51604e08ca03cfca2ec62965f6f7dba5c43f3c62b
SHA512

7350626f10fb4c5898f2e32dbf35c886f132d717e4d60293a70117b4efffae9e33f2b77c461ec67dc4ea896d1ae309354b32fdbd45a17e65b996b2c9d12eaf44
SSDEEP

3072:/LBgXOXcdW8tar7vGdq8c7YMl2b8anmMXnb58XuDP9het3Zv1oSW1za2E+w5C2/Y:2OMdRQr7OB0ypmMXnl8XEPM3noSWOC

Score

10^/10

tofsee discovery evasion execution persistence privilege_escalation trojan

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

tofsee

43.231.4.7

lazystax.ru

Signatures

Tofsee
Backdoor/botnet which carries out malicious activities based on commands from a C2 server.
trojan tofsee
Tofsee family
tofsee

Windows security bypass 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

evasion trojan

Disable or Modify Tools

T1562.001

Modify Registry

T1112

description	ioc	Process
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\qplragmg = "0"	svchost.exe

Creates new service(s) 2 TTPs
persistence execution

Windows Service
T1543.003

Service Execution
T1569.002

Modifies Windows Firewall 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

evasion

Windows Service

T1543.003

Disable or Modify System Firewall

T1562.004

pid	Process
2896	netsh.exe

Sets service image path in registry 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

T1547.001

Modify Registry

T1112

description	ioc	Process
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\qplragmg\ImagePath = "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\qplragmg\\sqzajfuq.exe"	svchost.exe

Deletes itself 1 IoCs

pid	Process
2916	svchost.exe

Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs

pid	Process
2992	sqzajfuq.exe

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 2992 set thread context of 2916	2992	sqzajfuq.exe	43

Launches sc.exe 3 IoCs

Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

pid	Process
2888	sc.exe
3004	sc.exe
2976	sc.exe

Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

System Information Discovery
T1082

Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

Netsh.exe (also referred to as Netshell) is a command-line scripting utility used to interact with the network configuration of a system.

persistence privilege_escalation

Netsh Helper DLL

T1546.007

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\NetSh	netsh.exe
Key queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\NetSh	netsh.exe
Key value enumerated	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\NetSh	netsh.exe

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 9 IoCs

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

discovery

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	sc.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	sc.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	sqzajfuq.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	netsh.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	cmd.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	sc.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	cmd.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	svchost.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 30 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 1628	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	30
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 1628	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	30
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 1628	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	30
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 1628	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	30
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2116	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	32
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2116	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	32
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2116	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	32
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2116	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	32
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2888	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	34
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2888	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	34
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2888	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	34
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2888	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	34
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 3004	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	36
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 3004	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	36
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 3004	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	36
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 3004	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	36
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2976	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	38
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2976	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	38
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2976	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	38
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2976	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	38
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2896	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	41
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2896	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	41
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2896	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	41
PID 2076 wrote to memory of 2896	2076	2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe	41
PID 2992 wrote to memory of 2916	2992	sqzajfuq.exe	43
PID 2992 wrote to memory of 2916	2992	sqzajfuq.exe	43
PID 2992 wrote to memory of 2916	2992	sqzajfuq.exe	43
PID 2992 wrote to memory of 2916	2992	sqzajfuq.exe	43
PID 2992 wrote to memory of 2916	2992	sqzajfuq.exe	43
PID 2992 wrote to memory of 2916	2992	sqzajfuq.exe	43

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe"
1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2076
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C mkdir C:\Windows\SysWOW64\qplragmg\
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:1628
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C move /Y "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sqzajfuq.exe" C:\Windows\SysWOW64\qplragmg\
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2116
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" create qplragmg binPath= "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\qplragmg\sqzajfuq.exe /d\"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2888
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" description qplragmg "wifi internet conection"
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:3004
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" start qplragmg
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2976
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\netsh.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\netsh.exe" advfirewall firewall add rule name="Host-process for services of Windows" dir=in action=allow program="C:\Windows\SysWOW64\svchost.exe" enable=yes>nul
  2⤵
  - Modifies Windows Firewall
  - Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2896

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\qplragmg\sqzajfuq.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\qplragmg\sqzajfuq.exe /d"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2024-12-27_d55d1fc9e60b3b9cca5780f42e834ca4_mafia.exe"
1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2992
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\svchost.exe
  svchost.exe
  2⤵
  - Windows security bypass
  - Sets service image path in registry
  - Deletes itself
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2916

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

System Services

T1569

Service Execution

T1569.002

Persistence

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

T1547.001

Create or Modify System Process

T1543

Windows Service

T1543.003

Event Triggered Execution

T1546

Netsh Helper DLL

T1546.007

Privilege Escalation

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

T1547.001

Create or Modify System Process

T1543

Windows Service

T1543.003

Event Triggered Execution

T1546

Netsh Helper DLL

T1546.007

Defense Evasion

Impair Defenses

T1562

Disable or Modify System Firewall

T1562.004

Disable or Modify Tools

T1562.001

Modify Registry

T1112

Credential Access

Discovery

System Information Discovery

T1082

System Location Discovery

T1614

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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

Filesize
13.6MB

MD5
3a520821a3474fa9f0a5f78ae6c2ba71

SHA1
52c182776432498305b5750574a9184a62ad72ec

SHA256
a1d5bfbffc5aec432e7e8a2a5be5ffe16f7489c545fcb616df931f2e95591803

SHA512
2d02478bd1c058ad2b659bcf4eea56082edc8bcb6c76c5a73144950f83850986e799f12a7dffc2668e44c66a33553c3d0084fb228f52d9e0bd86b003721a9e5a

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memory/2076-7-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000044E000-memory.dmp

Filesize
312KB

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memory/2076-3-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000415000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2076-2-0x0000000000020000-0x0000000000033000-memory.dmp

Filesize
76KB

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memory/2076-9-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000415000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2076-8-0x0000000000020000-0x0000000000033000-memory.dmp

Filesize
76KB

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memory/2076-1-0x0000000000520000-0x0000000000620000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1024KB

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memory/2916-14-0x0000000000080000-0x0000000000095000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2916-13-0x000000007EFDE000-0x000000007EFDF000-memory.dmp

Filesize
4KB

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memory/2916-11-0x0000000000080000-0x0000000000095000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2916-17-0x0000000000080000-0x0000000000095000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2916-18-0x0000000000080000-0x0000000000095000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2992-15-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000044E000-memory.dmp

Filesize
312KB

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Signatures

Processes

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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