Analysis

  • max time kernel
    101s
  • max time network
    111s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20250502-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20250502-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64system
  • submitted
    10/07/2025, 05:56

General

  • Target
    Bank Details-Update Form-Pdf.exe
  • Size 943KB
  • Sample250710-gm684sym12
  • SHA256 36f0e0b31d5b901268c65a2d5dd8b48a0e9c9b00a329c10be9a7be625fe5d84d
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Remcos

    Remcos is a closed-source remote control and surveillance software.

  • Remcos 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.

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • 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 7 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
  • 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 6 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 28 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Bank Details-Update Form-Pdf.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Bank Details-Update Form-Pdf.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3580
    • 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\Bank Details-Update Form-Pdf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3908
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\WLLJgX.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:4236
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\WLLJgX" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpEBE6.tmp"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:2248
    • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe
      "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe"
      2⤵
        PID:4348
      • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe
        "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe"
        2⤵
        • Adds Run key to start application
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Modifies registry class
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4820
        • C:\ProgramData\Remcos\remcos.exe
          "C:\ProgramData\Remcos\remcos.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:1676
    • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\ProgramData\Remcos\remcos.exe"
      1⤵
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1316
      • C:\ProgramData\Remcos\remcos.exe
        C:\ProgramData\Remcos\remcos.exe
        2⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:1440

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          remcos.exe

          • Path C:\ProgramData\Remcos\remcos.exe
          • Size 256KB
          • SHA256 0da56bd07a486818b7735761001cc1d3ca5af645f369a3c206bcb6719fefff06
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          remcos.exe.log

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\remcos.exe.log
          • Size 841B
          • SHA256 a5b1dee69defc4e1c1f37c2e06a95a445cb747aae04317b30971fe996a69cd2c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 97494021210a501d6c36e690aee72945f7bf8da836f6c58ec419d90806804027
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

          __PSScriptPolicyTest_o3ygvfcr.cfa.ps1

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_o3ygvfcr.cfa.ps1
          • Size 60B
          • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          tmpEBE6.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpEBE6.tmp
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 97ec9952a2dcaa3207d978e665ee8b6f97d7b22f2a3f416ced9ef4e6ecb31735
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

          memory/1440-99-0x0000000004A60000-0x0000000004BBA000-memory.dmp

          memory/1440-98-0x00000000023C0000-0x00000000023DA000-memory.dmp

          memory/1440-97-0x00000000000A0000-0x00000000000E0000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-4-0x0000000004CA0000-0x0000000004CAA000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-8-0x0000000006400000-0x00000000064C6000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-7-0x0000000004F00000-0x0000000004F10000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-6-0x0000000005280000-0x0000000005294000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-5-0x0000000004E20000-0x0000000004EBC000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-3-0x0000000004F00000-0x0000000004F10000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-2-0x0000000004D80000-0x0000000004E12000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-1-0x0000000005290000-0x0000000005836000-memory.dmp

          memory/3580-0-0x0000000000230000-0x0000000000322000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-44-0x0000000005C80000-0x0000000005C9E000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-103-0x0000000006C40000-0x0000000006C74000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-13-0x0000000004940000-0x0000000004950000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-132-0x0000000007310000-0x0000000007318000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-127-0x0000000007260000-0x00000000072F6000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-126-0x0000000007050000-0x000000000705A000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-45-0x0000000005CD0000-0x0000000005D1C000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-19-0x0000000004EE0000-0x0000000004F02000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-124-0x0000000007620000-0x0000000007C9A000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-17-0x0000000004F80000-0x00000000055AA000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-15-0x0000000004940000-0x0000000004950000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-14-0x00000000047D0000-0x0000000004806000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-104-0x0000000071360000-0x00000000713AC000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-125-0x0000000006FD0000-0x0000000006FEA000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-113-0x0000000006260000-0x000000000627E000-memory.dmp

          memory/3908-114-0x0000000006E80000-0x0000000006F24000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-115-0x0000000071360000-0x00000000713AC000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-20-0x00000000058E0000-0x0000000005946000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-16-0x00000000026C0000-0x00000000026D0000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-21-0x0000000005950000-0x00000000059B6000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-128-0x00000000073F0000-0x0000000007401000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-129-0x0000000007420000-0x000000000742E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-130-0x0000000007430000-0x0000000007445000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-131-0x0000000007540000-0x000000000755A000-memory.dmp

          memory/4236-38-0x00000000059C0000-0x0000000005D17000-memory.dmp

          memory/4820-39-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000483000-memory.dmp

          memory/4820-40-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000483000-memory.dmp