tofsee | 559392ab0d8b5822bfb22af22fa624a4d13ed5dbe2dfb41479b88175c36e115b

Analysis

max time kernel
144s
max time network
120s
platform
windows7_x64
resource
win7-20241010-en
resource tags

arch:x64arch:x86image:win7-20241010-enlocale:en-usos:windows7-x64system
submitted
30-01-2025 22:25

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General

Target

2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe
Size

12.6MB
MD5

173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6
SHA1

e922787a276ddb7dcd6a9920f37c69e62c326d69
SHA256

559392ab0d8b5822bfb22af22fa624a4d13ed5dbe2dfb41479b88175c36e115b
SHA512

3c7ac21a257f8b44582b5bf8c337a20cd7053331679ccab22fa1182a516213825ef6bdf182e5253f67c8f61b783aa614045109f5eaff4ace42a16a1149a2c67f
SSDEEP

24576:eEfmTNIkv/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ5:3fotz

Score

10^/10

tofsee defense_evasion discovery 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

defense_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\pftiohfe = "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

defense_evasion

Windows Service

T1543.003

Disable or Modify System Firewall

T1562.004

pid	Process
2640	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\pftiohfe\ImagePath = "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\pftiohfe\\hqkphgbx.exe"	svchost.exe

Deletes itself 1 IoCs

pid	Process
1656	svchost.exe

Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs

pid	Process
2608	hqkphgbx.exe

Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 2608 set thread context of 1656	2608	hqkphgbx.exe	41

Launches sc.exe 3 IoCs

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

pid	Process
2708	sc.exe
1680	sc.exe
2880	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	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	hqkphgbx.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	svchost.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.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

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 30 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2808	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	30
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2808	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	30
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2808	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	30
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2808	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	30
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2716	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	32
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2716	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	32
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2716	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	32
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2716	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	32
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2708	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	34
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2708	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	34
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2708	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	34
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2708	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	34
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 1680	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	36
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 1680	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	36
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 1680	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	36
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 1680	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	36
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2880	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	38
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2880	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	38
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2880	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	38
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2880	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	38
PID 2608 wrote to memory of 1656	2608	hqkphgbx.exe	41
PID 2608 wrote to memory of 1656	2608	hqkphgbx.exe	41
PID 2608 wrote to memory of 1656	2608	hqkphgbx.exe	41
PID 2608 wrote to memory of 1656	2608	hqkphgbx.exe	41
PID 2608 wrote to memory of 1656	2608	hqkphgbx.exe	41
PID 2608 wrote to memory of 1656	2608	hqkphgbx.exe	41
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2640	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	42
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2640	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	42
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2640	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	42
PID 2256 wrote to memory of 2640	2256	2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe	42

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe"
1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2256
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C mkdir C:\Windows\SysWOW64\pftiohfe\
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2808
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C move /Y "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\hqkphgbx.exe" C:\Windows\SysWOW64\pftiohfe\
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2716
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" create pftiohfe binPath= "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\pftiohfe\hqkphgbx.exe /d\"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe\"" type= own start= auto DisplayName= "wifi support"
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2708
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" description pftiohfe "wifi internet conection"
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:1680
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe
  "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" start pftiohfe
  2⤵
  - Launches sc.exe
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  PID:2880
- 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:2640

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\pftiohfe\hqkphgbx.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\pftiohfe\hqkphgbx.exe /d"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-01-30_173d0dae116ce3af630bb816a5016ce6_mafia.exe"
1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2608
- 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:1656

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\hqkphgbx.exe

Filesize
11.4MB

MD5
b05fb6a8b2d40d7437c6265ce6f89d72

SHA1
2223109395080261ddc53a4482458dfaf8fe9f73

SHA256
8aa877bf5242a8facc04f988f780b9fb24a90e48b71c0764fad6092b370e9bcb

SHA512
4b321360f483a65f9377607586e9ba67c3d5debb12a278816e7bd5dd5622a53d325f6fd5f2a2f542b7aa964caced38cfe134707c80ba125e00a475a5b6abff8b

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memory/1656-11-0x0000000000100000-0x0000000000115000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/1656-10-0x000000007EFDE000-0x000000007EFDF000-memory.dmp

Filesize
4KB

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memory/1656-8-0x0000000000100000-0x0000000000115000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/1656-17-0x0000000000100000-0x0000000000115000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/1656-18-0x0000000000100000-0x0000000000115000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2256-3-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000415000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2256-2-0x0000000000020000-0x0000000000033000-memory.dmp

Filesize
76KB

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memory/2256-1-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006F0000-memory.dmp

Filesize
1024KB

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memory/2256-14-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000044E000-memory.dmp

Filesize
312KB

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memory/2256-16-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000415000-memory.dmp

Filesize
84KB

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memory/2256-15-0x0000000000020000-0x0000000000033000-memory.dmp

Filesize
76KB

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memory/2608-12-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000044E000-memory.dmp

Filesize
312KB

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Signatures

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Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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