phorphiex | 550e6a3e9db159e5e73845b9cf1634f34bd7fd8dd869f94362f6f36347f46c86

General

Target

2025-03-10_52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275_cobalt-strike_ryuk.exe
Size

1.7MB
MD5

52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275
SHA1

d1cdfb44f86b8b208ede61fb7f13dc772f5fef6a
SHA256

550e6a3e9db159e5e73845b9cf1634f34bd7fd8dd869f94362f6f36347f46c86
SHA512

c740163188cd18e3c59cb7fdcaa16ba4d3b9cb7fcc6a44bb226b5f828a2b42b6699fb2a8d3d96055fcb10882d8938c889c5656cfcc27bded3cac5c645f1695bd
SSDEEP

24576:rdEfCsbpiQunVR0eyVNvzSNR8xaOV8z39/nsT/h9igKbMtPQIO:rd4CsNiQY5yvLSNR858T9/sT/hIbUP

Score

10^/10

phorphiex discovery loader persistence trojan worm

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

phorphiex

C2

http://91.202.233.141/

http://45.93.20.18/

Wallets

TRuGGXNDM1cavQ1AqMQHG8yfxP4QWVSMN6

qph44jx8r9k5xeq5cuf958krv3ewrnp5vc6hhdjd3r

rsXCXBf9SagxV8JfC12d8Bybk84oPdMNN9

AULzfBuUAPfCGAXoG5Vq14aP9s6fx3AH4Z

LdgchXq1sKbAaAJ1EXAPSRBzLb8jnTZstT

MP8GEm8QpYgQYaMo8oM5NQhRBgDGiLZW5Q

4AtjkCVKbtEC3UEN77SQHuH9i1XkzNiRi5VCbA2XGsJh46nJSXfGQn4GjLuupCqmC57Lo7LvKmFUyRfhtJSvKvuw3h9ReKK

XryzFMFVpDUvU7famUGf214EXD3xNUSmQf

0xCa90599132C4D88907Bd8E046540284aa468a035

15TssKwtjMtwy4vDLcLsQUZUD2B9f7eDjw85sBNVC5LRPPnC

1BzmrjmKPKSR2hH5BeJySfiVA676E8DYaK

ltc1qt0n3f0t7vz9k0mvcswk477shrxwjhf9sj5ykrp

3PMiLynrGVZ8oEqvoqC4hXD67B1WoALR4pc

3ESHude8zUHksQg1h6hHmzY79BS36L91Yn

CSLKveRL2zqkbV2TqiFVuW6twtpqgFajoUZLAJQTTQk2

DLUzwvyxN1RrwjByUPPzVMdfxNRPGVRMMA

t1J6GCPCiHW1eRdjJgDDu6b1vSVmL5U7Twh

stars125f3mw4xd9htpsq4zj5w5ezm5gags37yxxh6mj

bnb1msyt0djx4ecspfxg5en0ye465kg3kmv9utzml2

bc1ppypcmu3684n648gyj62gjp2rw0xy7w3vwfamatlg29ajp4z52desafa0sr

Attributes

mutex
k993947s89
user_agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Signatures

Phorphiex family
phorphiex

Phorphiex payload 1 IoCs

resource	yara_rule
behavioral2/files/0x000300000001e710-10.dat	family_phorphiex

Phorphiex, Phorpiex
Phorphiex or Phorpiex Malware family which infects systems to distribute other malicious payloads such as ransomware, stealers and cryptominers.
worm trojan loader phorphiex

Downloads MZ/PE file 2 IoCs

flow	pid	Process
26	3028	EB5A.exe
1	4356	2025-03-10_52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275_cobalt-strike_ryuk.exe

Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs

pid	Process
3028	EB5A.exe
4768	110995246.exe
3692	sysludpvs.exe

Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

T1547.001

Modify Registry

T1112

description	ioc	Process
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Windows Settings = "C:\\Windows\\sysludpvs.exe"	110995246.exe

Drops file in Windows directory 2 IoCs

description	ioc	Process
File created	C:\Windows\sysludpvs.exe	110995246.exe
File opened for modification	C:\Windows\sysludpvs.exe	110995246.exe

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	EB5A.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	110995246.exe
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	sysludpvs.exe

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 9 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 4356 wrote to memory of 3028	4356	2025-03-10_52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275_cobalt-strike_ryuk.exe	89
PID 4356 wrote to memory of 3028	4356	2025-03-10_52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275_cobalt-strike_ryuk.exe	89
PID 4356 wrote to memory of 3028	4356	2025-03-10_52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275_cobalt-strike_ryuk.exe	89
PID 3028 wrote to memory of 4768	3028	EB5A.exe	91
PID 3028 wrote to memory of 4768	3028	EB5A.exe	91
PID 3028 wrote to memory of 4768	3028	EB5A.exe	91
PID 4768 wrote to memory of 3692	4768	110995246.exe	96
PID 4768 wrote to memory of 3692	4768	110995246.exe	96
PID 4768 wrote to memory of 3692	4768	110995246.exe	96

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-03-10_52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275_cobalt-strike_ryuk.exe
"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2025-03-10_52b1c72d446bf7506e0e5abc51122275_cobalt-strike_ryuk.exe"
1⤵
- Downloads MZ/PE file
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:4356
- C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\EB5A.exe
  "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\EB5A.exe"
  2⤵
  - Downloads MZ/PE file
  - Executes dropped EXE
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
  PID:3028
- - C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\110995246.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\110995246.exe
    3⤵
    - Executes dropped EXE
    - Adds Run key to start application
    - Drops file in Windows directory
    - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4768
  - - C:\Windows\sysludpvs.exe
      C:\Windows\sysludpvs.exe
      4⤵
      Executes dropped EXE
      System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3692

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Persistence

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

1

T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1

T1547.001

Privilege Escalation

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

1

T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1

T1547.001

Defense Evasion

Modify Registry

1

T1112

Credential Access

Discovery

System Location Discovery

1

T1614

System Language Discovery

1

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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Downloads

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\110995246.exe

Filesize
87KB

MD5
87dce6b601da9e68982ef5bc7628468c

SHA1
48b0e84e5749bd48b282ae1b7597094aa2a5cdf9

SHA256
2246262e2df5b143d4bff663aceb85d7633ebcb91f2f641c2ab7936c942a8eb2

SHA512
94cb5e917716db718e3c912e52976f321afa15aa8a533f6930585f5cc878d7edc434ebdea0eb1ec26ec3d79797304bdcb9cfaec62e472872036fc9320e047ef1

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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\EB5A.exe

Filesize
10KB

MD5
4c52cf849be8954638925c242e0cc976

SHA1
949ba0061ea9dbe3b9059bb2a7b20caa74861280

SHA256
fa6fcf2e154c0b18b12ab86267ccd38d79cc9c27e7e261a7e9201a0a9dd9d0bb

SHA512
c11572dcd274bdcb5e94cf38ec36aa65e4d5605df250ee8887cd5098b044e3e2e71be3b3292118b967e27bc752b5cf5d9c8da5ac2834b7c156302c307abe123b

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Analysis

Sharing

General

Malware Config

Extracted

Signatures

Processes

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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