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09/12/2025, 07:26

251209-h9p4saen9w10

09/12/2025, 02:46

251209-c9l48stphk10

Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    151s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20251015-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20251015-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64system
  • submitted
    09/12/2025, 02:46

General

  • Target
    _d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f.exe
  • Size 477KB
  • Sample251209-c9l48stphk
  • SHA256 d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • xworm

C2
  • 158.94.209.169:6077

  • johnsmith77770444.zapto.org:6078

Mutex
  • AX4zgihJB7HHK7jW

Attributes
  • install_file

    pc1.exe

aes.plain
aes.plain

Extracted

Family
  • latentbot

C2
  • johnsmith77770444.zapto.org

Signatures

  • Contains code to disable Windows Defender 1 IoCs

    A .NET executable tasked with disabling Windows Defender capabilities such as realtime monitoring, blocking at first seen, etc.

  • Detect Xworm Payload 3 IoCs
  • LatentBot

    Modular trojan written in Delphi which has been in-the-wild since 2013.

  • Latentbot family
  • Xworm

    Xworm is a remote access trojan written in C#.

  • Xworm family
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 8 IoCs

    Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

  • Drops startup file 4 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 10 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 4 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 20 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 4 IoCs

    Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 19 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 16 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 34 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:784
    • 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\_d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1504
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3368
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\wxhPbckf" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpB19D.tmp"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:4208
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f.exe"
      2⤵
      • Drops startup file
      • Adds Run key to start application
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4832
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vvuand.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vvuand.exe"
        3⤵
        • Drops startup file
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Adds Run key to start application
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:6008
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2080
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:768
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2000
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\wxhPbckf" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpFA3E.tmp"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:1400
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:5176
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2216
  • C:\pc1.exe
    \pc1.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4344
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\pc1.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2696
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3044
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\wxhPbckf" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp2A.tmp"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:1792
    • C:\pc1.exe
      "C:\pc1.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:5464
  • C:\pc1.exe
    C:\pc1.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4352
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\pc1.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2044
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:5348
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\wxhPbckf" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp402.tmp"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:1608
    • C:\pc1.exe
      "C:\pc1.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:240
  • C:\XWormClient.exe
    C:\XWormClient.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:6080
  • C:\XWormClient.exe
    \XWormClient.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:5952

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        XWormClient.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\XWormClient.exe.log
        • Size 654B
        • SHA256 e31b18f21621d9983bfdf1ea3e53884a9d58b8ffd79e0e5790da6f3a81a8b9d3
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        powershell.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
        • Size 2KB
        • SHA256 9600b3fdf0565ccb49e21656aa4b24d7c18f776bfd04d9ee984b134707550f02
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        wxhPbckf.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\wxhPbckf.exe.log
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 4c17576f64dea465c45a50573ee41771f7be9962ab2d07f961af4df5589bdcce
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 b39073821df86f33a0b4695b46893572801dfd4b9001a9c7b6f57abb843768d7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 13KB
        • SHA256 4fcc03800f807edb6dd3c5f8fbaa7a1f9f063641c75d643b434b679966dd0396
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 cdb817ff871aef41824e0a239b1ca8f7a6157783fc4063df186fb2b060e5998e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 630e141a592d1b8815bc6c4d20b87629129d26e80536db42b282cbc8890a77b0
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 1a1a2e8b8d4e1766b6b636faa89341e2527fe68fb416abec70b5aaafca36ec59
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        __PSScriptPolicyTest_dmhz5oct.nt1.ps1

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_dmhz5oct.nt1.ps1
        • Size 60B
        • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        tmpB19D.tmp

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpB19D.tmp
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 0330071f4471e07471e99c1a06d3b3ead8a563cb4049acd5535cecaceb682928
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512

        vvuand.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vvuand.exe
        • Size 34KB
        • SHA256 4036b92a0828c97d6f727c0a15dd43efc7eff737be45b354b4f72e83f7210e4f
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        wxhPbckf.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\wxhPbckf.exe
        • Size 477KB
        • SHA256 d28d2788b9d5b476e71fb63b71e36b3eb36fed4ca0152f36fa6f00aab857543f
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP

        memory/768-139-0x000000006F550000-0x000000006F59C000-memory.dmp

        memory/768-146-0x0000000007710000-0x00000000077B4000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-8-0x0000000002AC0000-0x0000000002B0C000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-7-0x0000000005230000-0x0000000005240000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-6-0x0000000005400000-0x000000000541A000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-5-0x00000000052E0000-0x000000000537C000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-4-0x0000000005030000-0x000000000503A000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-3-0x0000000005230000-0x0000000005240000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-2-0x0000000005080000-0x0000000005112000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-1-0x0000000005590000-0x0000000005B36000-memory.dmp

        memory/784-0-0x0000000000640000-0x00000000006BE000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-61-0x00000000072F0000-0x0000000007386000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-15-0x00000000048E0000-0x00000000048F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-41-0x0000000006EF0000-0x0000000006F24000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-42-0x0000000074CB0000-0x0000000074CFC000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-13-0x0000000004860000-0x0000000004896000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-57-0x0000000006F30000-0x0000000006FD4000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-58-0x00000000076A0000-0x0000000007D1A000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-14-0x00000000048E0000-0x00000000048F0000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-60-0x00000000070E0000-0x00000000070EA000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-19-0x0000000004E60000-0x0000000004E82000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-63-0x0000000007270000-0x0000000007281000-memory.dmp

        memory/1504-71-0x00000000073A0000-0x00000000073A8000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-173-0x0000000007300000-0x0000000007315000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-159-0x00000000072C0000-0x00000000072D1000-memory.dmp

        memory/2000-147-0x000000006F550000-0x000000006F59C000-memory.dmp

        memory/2044-204-0x000000006F550000-0x000000006F59C000-memory.dmp

        memory/2696-197-0x000000006F550000-0x000000006F59C000-memory.dmp

        memory/3044-190-0x000000006F550000-0x000000006F59C000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-68-0x0000000007660000-0x000000000766E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-17-0x00000000054B0000-0x0000000005ADA000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-56-0x00000000072D0000-0x00000000072EE000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-59-0x0000000007420000-0x000000000743A000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-38-0x0000000006100000-0x000000000614C000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-16-0x0000000002930000-0x0000000002940000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-49-0x0000000074CB0000-0x0000000074CFC000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-69-0x0000000007670000-0x0000000007685000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-70-0x0000000007780000-0x000000000779A000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-37-0x00000000060D0000-0x00000000060EE000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-21-0x0000000005BC0000-0x0000000005C26000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-20-0x0000000005B50000-0x0000000005BB6000-memory.dmp

        memory/3368-28-0x0000000005C30000-0x0000000005F87000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-108-0x000000000A5E0000-0x000000000A5F1000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-79-0x00000000061B0000-0x00000000061BE000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-86-0x0000000007270000-0x0000000007292000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-110-0x000000000B100000-0x000000000B2A8000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-109-0x000000000A620000-0x000000000A635000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-87-0x0000000007980000-0x00000000079CA000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-107-0x000000000A350000-0x000000000A3F4000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-35-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-89-0x0000000008A60000-0x0000000008AAC000-memory.dmp

        memory/4832-88-0x0000000007AD0000-0x0000000007E27000-memory.dmp

        memory/5348-211-0x000000006F550000-0x000000006F59C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6008-100-0x00000000005D0000-0x00000000005DE000-memory.dmp