8700911ee526af2051c9485f71804da170c9f76ba50ec266598169159a654469

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe

Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

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

execution

PowerShell

T1059.001

pid	Process
2788	powershell.exe

Looks for VMWare Tools registry key 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

evasion

Query Registry

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.\VMware Tools	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe

Checks BIOS information in registry 2 TTPs 2 IoCs

BIOS information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

Query Registry

System Information Discovery

T1082

description	ioc	Process
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosVersion	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\VideoBiosVersion	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe

Maps connected drives based on registry 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

Disk information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

Query Registry

Peripheral Device Discovery

T1120

System Information Discovery

T1082

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Disk\Enum	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Disk\Enum\0	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe

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

System Information Discovery
T1082

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 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	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	powershell.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	schtasks.exe

Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

persistence execution

Scheduled Task

pid	Process
2636	schtasks.exe

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 12 IoCs

pid	Process
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
2788	powershell.exe

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs

description	pid	Process
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
Token: SeDebugPrivilege	2788	powershell.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 28 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2788	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	28
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2788	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	28
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2788	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	28
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2788	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	28
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2636	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	31
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2636	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	31
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2636	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	31
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2636	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	31
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2512	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	32
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2512	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	32
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2512	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	32
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2512	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	32
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2884	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	34
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2884	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	34
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2884	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	34
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2884	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	34
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2664	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	35
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2664	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	35
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2664	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	35
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2664	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	35
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2688	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	36
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2688	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	36
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2688	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	36
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2688	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	36
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2744	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	37
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2744	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	37
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2744	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	37
PID 848 wrote to memory of 2744	848	JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe	37

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe"
1⤵
- Looks for VirtualBox Guest Additions in registry
- Looks for VMWare Tools registry key
- Checks BIOS information in registry
- Maps connected drives based on registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:848
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe"
  2⤵
  - Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
  - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
  PID:2788
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\wHlcNFpFfEV" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp6B12.tmp"
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
  PID:2636
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe"
  2⤵
  PID:2512
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe"
  2⤵
  PID:2884
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe"
  2⤵
  PID:2664
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe"
  2⤵
  PID:2688
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\JaffaCakes118_a2ed7ee4774559afd500659c16674e5f.exe"
  2⤵
  PID:2744

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1059

PowerShell

T1059.001

Scheduled Task/Job

T1053

Scheduled Task

Persistence

Scheduled Task/Job

T1053

Scheduled Task

Privilege Escalation

Scheduled Task/Job

T1053

Scheduled Task

Defense Evasion

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

Credential Access

Discovery

Peripheral Device Discovery

T1120

Query Registry

System Information Discovery

T1082

System Location Discovery

T1614

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion