Analysis

  • max time kernel
    119s
  • max time network
    94s
  • 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, 03:52

General

  • Target
    $R0/Uninstall sparkle.exe
  • Size 140KB
  • Sample260415-ee672aes7j
  • SHA256 5edc9b41eeaa5bcda096c99036da31ca288ecfd9b1b371d8c87b4efc1a464abf
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 8 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Using powershell.exe command.

  • Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Command interpreters often include specific commands/flags that ignore errors and other hangups.

  • 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.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 24 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\Uninstall sparkle.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\Uninstall sparkle.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2720
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe" _?=C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5152
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -C "if (Get-Command Get-CimInstance -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { exit 0 } else { exit 1 }"
        3⤵
        • Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:5456
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -C "if ((Get-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process) -eq 'Restricted') { exit 1 } else { exit 0 }"
        3⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:6028
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -C "if ((Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Process | ? {$_.Path -and $_.Path.StartsWith('C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0', 'CurrentCultureIgnoreCase')}).Count -gt 0) { exit 0 } else { exit 1 }"
        3⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:1324

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        powershell.exe.log

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
        • Size 2KB
        • SHA256 56b3adbf18e46f82c8075f712785ea8e59e3125a90ce26b8b0d20687401340d6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 16KB
        • SHA256 5bb8edcaa19fd84fbe6ab7c6a2527d79874c672f394e9b3ae56f14b0f7d1ffc6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 16KB
        • SHA256 f345473d5adb10eff617976f2220269097ef47fe5035893227f15e7aea82d07e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        __PSScriptPolicyTest_ysamm3wp.ucx.ps1

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_ysamm3wp.ucx.ps1
        • Size 60B
        • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        StdUtils.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsz683C.tmp\StdUtils.dll
        • Size 100KB
        • SHA256 b72e9013a6204e9f01076dc38dabbf30870d44dfc66962adbf73619d4331601e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        System.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsz683C.tmp\System.dll
        • Size 12KB
        • SHA256 3eb38ae99653a7dbc724132ee240f6e5c4af4bfe7c01d31d23faf373f9f2eaca
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        WinShell.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsz683C.tmp\WinShell.dll
        • Size 3KB
        • SHA256 9be85b986ea66a6997dde658abe82b3147ed2a1a3dcb784bb5176f41d22815a6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        nsExec.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsz683C.tmp\nsExec.dll
        • Size 6KB
        • SHA256 5d9ceb1ce5f35aea5f9e5a0c0edeeec04dfefe0c77890c80c70e98209b58b962
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Un_A.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe
        • Size 140KB
        • SHA256 5edc9b41eeaa5bcda096c99036da31ca288ecfd9b1b371d8c87b4efc1a464abf
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/1324-100-0x00000000071E0000-0x0000000007284000-memory.dmp

        memory/1324-92-0x00000000065A0000-0x00000000065EC000-memory.dmp

        memory/1324-93-0x000000006FF30000-0x000000006FF7C000-memory.dmp

        memory/1324-101-0x0000000070160000-0x00000000704B7000-memory.dmp

        memory/1324-84-0x0000000005B40000-0x0000000005E97000-memory.dmp

        memory/1324-103-0x0000000000AA0000-0x0000000000C4C000-memory.dmp

        memory/2720-4-0x0000000002480000-0x0000000002502000-memory.dmp

        memory/5152-120-0x00000000022E0000-0x0000000002362000-memory.dmp

        memory/5152-30-0x00000000022E0000-0x0000000002362000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-43-0x0000000007270000-0x0000000007314000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-20-0x00000000058C0000-0x0000000005926000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-41-0x0000000004C50000-0x0000000004C60000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-40-0x0000000004C50000-0x0000000004C60000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-33-0x000000006FF50000-0x000000006FF9C000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-45-0x0000000007320000-0x000000000733A000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-44-0x00000000079A0000-0x000000000801A000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-46-0x00000000073A0000-0x00000000073AA000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-47-0x0000000007530000-0x000000000755A000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-48-0x0000000007560000-0x0000000007584000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-49-0x00000000700C0000-0x0000000070417000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-52-0x0000000004B10000-0x0000000004B92000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-31-0x000000007FC50000-0x000000007FC60000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-14-0x0000000004C50000-0x0000000004C60000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-32-0x0000000006580000-0x00000000065B4000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-15-0x0000000004AB0000-0x0000000004AE6000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-16-0x0000000004C50000-0x0000000004C60000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-17-0x0000000005290000-0x00000000058BA000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-18-0x0000000005130000-0x0000000005152000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-29-0x0000000006050000-0x000000000609C000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-28-0x0000000005FC0000-0x0000000005FDE000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-27-0x0000000005AB0000-0x0000000005E07000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-42-0x0000000006F90000-0x0000000006FAE000-memory.dmp

        memory/5456-19-0x00000000051D0000-0x0000000005236000-memory.dmp

        memory/6028-75-0x00000000051F0000-0x0000000005272000-memory.dmp

        memory/6028-73-0x0000000007C80000-0x0000000007C91000-memory.dmp

        memory/6028-72-0x0000000007D20000-0x0000000007DB6000-memory.dmp

        memory/6028-65-0x000000006FF50000-0x000000006FF9C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6028-57-0x0000000006150000-0x00000000064A7000-memory.dmp