Analysis

  • user interaction
    yes
  • max time kernel
    59s
  • max time network
    50s
  • 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, 14:28

General

  • Target
    awoixsdpxoco.exe
  • Size 2.5MB
  • Sample260415-rtgbdahs5q
  • SHA256 5ee955ce13f3264e60e1e27b3f16c14bdd99be5ad4933fea29d050f99bdd5d77
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Family: xmrig

    XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

  • XMRig Miner payload 9 IoCs
  • 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.

  • Creates new service(s) 2 TTPs
  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Stops running service(s) 4 TTPs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 2 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 14 IoCs

    Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

  • Launches sc.exe 14 IoCs

    Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 46 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 13 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\awoixsdpxoco.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\awoixsdpxoco.exe"
    1⤵
    • Drops file in System32 directory
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:2564
    • C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath @($env:UserProfile, $env:ProgramData) -ExclusionExtension '.exe' -Force
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:5604
    • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c wusa /uninstall /kb:890830 /quiet /norestart
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5084
      • C:\Windows\system32\wusa.exe
        wusa /uninstall /kb:890830 /quiet /norestart
        3⤵
          PID:2064
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop UsoSvc
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:4196
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop WaaSMedicSvc
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:1116
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop wuauserv
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:2924
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop bits
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:3904
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop dosvc
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:1912
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe delete "PWSPCOSY"
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:2404
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe create "PWSPCOSY" binpath= "C:\ProgramData\hsgddxscqizv\awoixsdpxoco.exe" start= "auto"
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:3700
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop eventlog
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:5904
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe start "PWSPCOSY"
        2⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:3316
    • C:\ProgramData\hsgddxscqizv\awoixsdpxoco.exe
      C:\ProgramData\hsgddxscqizv\awoixsdpxoco.exe
      1⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5836
      • C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath @($env:UserProfile, $env:ProgramData) -ExclusionExtension '.exe' -Force
        2⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • Drops file in System32 directory
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:3832
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c wusa /uninstall /kb:890830 /quiet /norestart
        2⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4380
        • C:\Windows\system32\wusa.exe
          wusa /uninstall /kb:890830 /quiet /norestart
          3⤵
            PID:3212
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop UsoSvc
          2⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:5932
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop WaaSMedicSvc
          2⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:2208
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop wuauserv
          2⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:1220
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop bits
          2⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:3764
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop dosvc
          2⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:2880
        • C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe
          2⤵
            PID:5552
          • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
            svchost.exe
            2⤵
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            PID:5920

        Network

              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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              Downloads

              awoixsdpxoco.exe

              • Path C:\ProgramData\hsgddxscqizv\awoixsdpxoco.exe
              • Size 2.5MB
              • SHA256 5ee955ce13f3264e60e1e27b3f16c14bdd99be5ad4933fea29d050f99bdd5d77
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              __PSScriptPolicyTest_qi0hohvy.tlg.ps1

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_qi0hohvy.tlg.ps1
              • Size 60B
              • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              memory/3832-50-0x0000011CF1060000-0x0000011CF1072000-memory.dmp

              memory/3832-49-0x0000011CF0F90000-0x0000011CF0F9C000-memory.dmp

              memory/3832-46-0x0000011CF1AB0000-0x0000011CF1B63000-memory.dmp

              memory/5552-51-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014000E000-memory.dmp

              memory/5552-52-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014000E000-memory.dmp

              memory/5552-53-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014000E000-memory.dmp

              memory/5552-54-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014000E000-memory.dmp

              memory/5552-55-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014000E000-memory.dmp

              memory/5552-58-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014000E000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-21-0x00000288CAC20000-0x00000288CAC2A000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-2-0x00000288CA860000-0x00000288CA882000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-24-0x00000288CAC60000-0x00000288CAC66000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-25-0x00000288CAC70000-0x00000288CAC7A000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-26-0x00000288B2230000-0x00000288B2240000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-29-0x00000288B2180000-0x00000288B218C000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-30-0x00000288B2210000-0x00000288B2222000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-22-0x00000288CAEF0000-0x00000288CAF0A000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-1-0x00000288B2230000-0x00000288B2240000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-20-0x00000288CAC40000-0x00000288CAC5C000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-19-0x00000288CAC10000-0x00000288CAC1A000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-18-0x00000288CAB50000-0x00000288CAC03000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-17-0x00000288CAB30000-0x00000288CAB4C000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-10-0x00007FF435BA0000-0x00007FF435BB0000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-9-0x00000288B2230000-0x00000288B2240000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-23-0x00000288CAC30000-0x00000288CAC38000-memory.dmp

              memory/5604-0-0x00000288B2230000-0x00000288B2240000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-71-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-64-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-59-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-66-0x000001F44A3B0000-0x000001F44A3D0000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-65-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-70-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-62-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-67-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-60-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-68-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-69-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-63-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-61-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-72-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp

              memory/5920-73-0x0000000140000000-0x0000000140848000-memory.dmp