Analysis

  • max time kernel
    140s
  • max time network
    148s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20250129-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20250129-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    07/02/2025, 14:32

General

  • Target
    cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.exe
  • Size 891KB
  • Sample250207-rwf4dsvjfv
  • SHA256 cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • vipkeylogger

Credentials

Signatures

  • VIPKeylogger

    VIPKeylogger is a keylogger and infostealer written in C# and it resembles SnakeKeylogger that was found in 2020.

  • Vipkeylogger family
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 2 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
  • Browser Information Discovery 1 TTPs

    Enumerate browser information.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 5 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 11 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 17 IoCs
  • outlook_office_path 1 IoCs
  • outlook_win_path 1 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.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 WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2184
    • 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\cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3456
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\aVFEElmOU.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1824
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\aVFEElmOU" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpEEE4.tmp"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:1116
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.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
      PID:4932

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

        Replay Monitor

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        Downloads

        cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\cf8609a0bf3ca9ed3e5e39abab534229213e4df0316cd0478032cf59e0f2f3dd.exe.log
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 7667e538030e3f8ce2886e47a01af24cb0ea70528b1e821c5d8832c5076cb982
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        powershell.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
        • Size 2KB
        • SHA256 92099c10776bb7e3f2a8d1b82d4d40d0c4627e4f1bf754a6e58dfd2c2e97042a
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 6dcf258ab5482b2c19cd64fd23610f6fac4f0e1fbe69c86ea9ea4c1f4dc893bc
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        __PSScriptPolicyTest_p4brcmai.d2n.ps1

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_p4brcmai.d2n.ps1
        • Size 60B
        • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        tmpEEE4.tmp

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpEEE4.tmp
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 c53f66691094048b6be5188e576f0b6090d7f985df6f3f26ab03025df1711223
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        memory/1824-35-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/1824-36-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/1824-37-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/1824-65-0x000000006EEE0000-0x000000006EF2C000-memory.dmp

        memory/1824-85-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-5-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-91-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-0-0x000000007469E000-0x000000007469F000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-10-0x0000000005330000-0x00000000053BE000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-9-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-8-0x000000007469E000-0x000000007469F000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-7-0x0000000005DA0000-0x0000000005DBE000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-6-0x0000000005CA0000-0x0000000005D3C000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-34-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-4-0x0000000005B50000-0x0000000005B5A000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-3-0x00000000059B0000-0x0000000005A42000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-2-0x0000000005E80000-0x0000000006424000-memory.dmp

        memory/2184-1-0x0000000000EE0000-0x0000000000FC6000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-12-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-16-0x0000000005920000-0x0000000005942000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-29-0x0000000006740000-0x000000000675E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-24-0x0000000006120000-0x0000000006474000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-47-0x00000000078F0000-0x0000000007922000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-48-0x000000006EEE0000-0x000000006EF2C000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-59-0x0000000007930000-0x00000000079D3000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-58-0x0000000006D10000-0x0000000006D2E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-60-0x00000000080D0000-0x000000000874A000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-61-0x0000000007A90000-0x0000000007AAA000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-62-0x0000000007B00000-0x0000000007B0A000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-63-0x0000000007D10000-0x0000000007DA6000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-64-0x0000000007C90000-0x0000000007CA1000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-30-0x0000000006770000-0x00000000067BC000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-75-0x0000000007CC0000-0x0000000007CCE000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-76-0x0000000007CD0000-0x0000000007CE4000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-77-0x0000000007DD0000-0x0000000007DEA000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-78-0x0000000007DB0000-0x0000000007DB8000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-18-0x00000000060B0000-0x0000000006116000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-17-0x0000000006040000-0x00000000060A6000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-84-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-15-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-14-0x00000000059A0000-0x0000000005FC8000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-11-0x0000000002DB0000-0x0000000002DE6000-memory.dmp

        memory/3456-13-0x0000000074690000-0x0000000074E40000-memory.dmp

        memory/4932-88-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

        memory/4932-92-0x0000000006940000-0x0000000006B02000-memory.dmp

        memory/4932-93-0x00000000067C0000-0x0000000006810000-memory.dmp