tofsee | ee8d18ee89bcf8ba343824cfc5d17013a93a8138629a37fb055061daff4bea6b

General

Target

2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe
Size

13.7MB
MD5

8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce
SHA1

a8e11d82385377a4100167a5f2eda97203a154bc
SHA256

ee8d18ee89bcf8ba343824cfc5d17013a93a8138629a37fb055061daff4bea6b
SHA512

b8c23243eb246d731d667e7fa931807221cbef7408f6d8c70522ed06acf4a8db0f1b6311b146afb5a7fde3f3455465f01a5d8e65379d0f4ef439ae59ec170e90
SSDEEP

6144:0ZXxZnMXxZX06XE1+wr1Zf/VmUL0PMMMMMMMb6:EXzMBZX0F+wrVRiMMMMMMMb

Score

10^/10

tofsee discovery evasion execution persistence privilege_escalation trojan

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

tofsee

C2

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
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
4436	netsh.exe

Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

Query Registry

T1012

System Information Discovery

T1082

description	ioc	Process
Key value queried	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-2045521122-590294423-3465680274-1000\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe

Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs

pid	Process
688	upwtsplm.exe

Launches sc.exe 3 IoCs

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

pid	Process
1864	sc.exe
1884	sc.exe
4764	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 queried	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\NetSh	netsh.exe
Key value enumerated	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\NetSh	netsh.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\NetSh	netsh.exe

Program crash 1 IoCs

pid	pid_target	Process	procid_target
3620	2444	WerFault.exe	84

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 7 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	cmd.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	sc.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	sc.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	netsh.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 18 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 2700	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	100
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 2700	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	100
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 2700	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	100
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 2760	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	102
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 2760	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	102
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 2760	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	102
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 1884	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	104
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 1884	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	104
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 1884	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	104
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 4764	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	106
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 4764	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	106
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 4764	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	106
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 1864	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	108
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 1864	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	108
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 1864	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	108
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 4436	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	111
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 4436	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	111
PID 2444 wrote to memory of 4436	2444	2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe	111

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe"
1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2444
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C mkdir C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uspwanbq\
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2700
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C move /Y "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\upwtsplm.exe" C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uspwanbq\
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2760
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" create uspwanbq binPath= "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uspwanbq\upwtsplm.exe /d\"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:1884
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" description uspwanbq "wifi internet conection"
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:4764
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" start uspwanbq
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:1864
- 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:4436
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
  C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 2444 -s 672
  2⤵
  - Program crash
  PID:3620

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uspwanbq\upwtsplm.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uspwanbq\upwtsplm.exe /d"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-18_8cd2a63e98c2f43873a7b54f5de4a5ce_karagany_mafia.exe"
1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
PID:688

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 452 -p 2444 -ip 2444
1⤵
PID:1972

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

System Services

1

T1569

Service Execution

1

T1569.002

Persistence

Create or Modify System Process

2

T1543

Windows Service

2

T1543.003

Event Triggered Execution

1

T1546

Netsh Helper DLL

1

T1546.007

Privilege Escalation

Create or Modify System Process

2

T1543

Windows Service

2

T1543.003

Event Triggered Execution

1

T1546

Netsh Helper DLL

1

T1546.007

Defense Evasion

Impair Defenses

1

T1562

Disable or Modify System Firewall

1

T1562.004

Credential Access

Discovery

Query Registry

1

T1012

System Information Discovery

2

T1082

System Location Discovery

1

T1614

System Language Discovery

1

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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

Filesize
13.2MB

MD5
fa823c7f15d54fd5702608eaef460e68

SHA1
62073909a1007173fd525e2284306fcdccd1cf55

SHA256
746a0df826ce1b72793b0ab08c8ae8bd4514df8f72bd3b42191d4db5cda73155

SHA512
7fdd5d4df05065d99c491f8015304e8b69c102dd074980899720b655ec4ed964d61e7f861063e40fb56b37f9c99f5480865b215d1e23c101f019d2a856e7f6f0

Download Submit
memory/2444-1-0x00007FF9AA950000-0x00007FF9AAB45000-memory.dmp

Filesize
2.0MB

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memory/2444-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000482000-memory.dmp

Filesize
520KB

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General

Malware Config

Extracted

Signatures

Processes

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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