Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
150s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20250129-en - resource tags
- submitted
30/01/2025, 17:22
General
- Target PAYMENT ADVICE.exe
- Size 579KB
- Sample250130-vxjsfsxpby
- SHA256 1e1cda620f33f8a4e039351b55ea841fb09e0212ca2dd44cbbcd52fc88ef8f61
Malware Config
Signatures
- 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.
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Reads user/profile data of local email clients 2 TTPs
Email clients store some user data on disk where infostealers will often target it.
- Reads user/profile data of web browsers 3 TTPs
Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.
- Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
- Looks up external IP address via web service 3 IoCs
Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 5 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 14 IoCs
- outlook_office_path 1 IoCs
- outlook_win_path 1 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\PAYMENT ADVICE.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\PAYMENT ADVICE.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\qJfYTp.exe"2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe"C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\qJfYTp" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpD9E5.tmp"2⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\PAYMENT ADVICE.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\PAYMENT ADVICE.exe"2⤵
- Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- outlook_office_path
- outlook_win_path
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15
Execution
Command and Scripting Interpreter
1PowerShell
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Credential Access
Credentials from Password Stores
1Credentials from Web Browsers
1Unsecured Credentials
2Credentials In Files
2Replay Monitor
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Downloads
PAYMENT ADVICE.exe.log
__PSScriptPolicyTest_hitcmfyp.pau.ps1
tmpD9E5.tmp
memory/2440-54-0x0000000007530000-0x000000000754E000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-56-0x0000000007CC0000-0x000000000833A000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-67-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-64-0x00000000079A0000-0x00000000079A8000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-63-0x00000000079C0000-0x00000000079DA000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-62-0x00000000078C0000-0x00000000078D4000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-61-0x00000000078B0000-0x00000000078BE000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-60-0x0000000007880000-0x0000000007891000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-15-0x0000000002A50000-0x0000000002A86000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-17-0x00000000055B0000-0x0000000005BD8000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-16-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-59-0x0000000007900000-0x0000000007996000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-19-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-20-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-58-0x00000000076F0000-0x00000000076FA000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-57-0x0000000007680000-0x000000000769A000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-33-0x0000000005D10000-0x0000000005D76000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-32-0x0000000005540000-0x00000000055A6000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-31-0x00000000054A0000-0x00000000054C2000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-44-0x00000000700C0000-0x000000007010C000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-55-0x0000000007550000-0x00000000075F3000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-39-0x0000000005E80000-0x00000000061D4000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-43-0x0000000006920000-0x0000000006952000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-41-0x00000000068C0000-0x000000000690C000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-40-0x0000000006350000-0x000000000636E000-memory.dmp
memory/4000-24-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/4000-42-0x0000000006310000-0x0000000006360000-memory.dmp
memory/4000-21-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000041E000-memory.dmp
memory/4000-69-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/4000-38-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/4000-68-0x0000000006730000-0x00000000068F2000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-3-0x0000000005420000-0x00000000054B2000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-1-0x00000000009A0000-0x0000000000A36000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-2-0x0000000005930000-0x0000000005ED4000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-25-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-10-0x000000000D770000-0x000000000D80C000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-9-0x0000000002C60000-0x0000000002CC2000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-8-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-7-0x00000000746CE000-0x00000000746CF000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-6-0x0000000005910000-0x000000000592E000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-5-0x00000000746C0000-0x0000000074E70000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-0-0x00000000746CE000-0x00000000746CF000-memory.dmp
memory/4584-4-0x00000000055C0000-0x00000000055CA000-memory.dmp