Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    150s
  • 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, 16:57

General

  • Target
    implant.exe
  • Size 156KB
  • Sample260415-vgkptaey9k
  • SHA256 5376d8ddf6b089bd84c32bf8043fa9e1d3a227d21d7e1731cb25f75fb360c284
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 4 IoCs

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

  • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Uses the Powershell Set-MpPreference cmdlet to disable one or more Microsoft Defender components.

  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 8 IoCs

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

  • Modifies registry class 13 IoCs
  • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 6 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\implant.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\implant.exe"
    1⤵
    • Adds Run key to start application
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3768
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      schtasks /create /tn "MicrosoftEdgeUpdate" /tr "schtasks /create /tn "MicrosoftEdgeUpdate" /tr "ΓΏ" /sc ONLOGON /rl HIGHEST /f
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:3716
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\implant.exe'"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:4352
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2716
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\implant.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\implant.exe
    1⤵
    • Adds Run key to start application
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3524
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      schtasks /create /tn "MicrosoftEdgeUpdate" /tr "schtasks /create /tn "MicrosoftEdgeUpdate" /tr " " /sc ONLOGON /rl HIGHEST /f
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:3240
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\implant.exe'"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3724
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1736

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        103621DE9CD5414CC2538780B4B75751

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\Content\103621DE9CD5414CC2538780B4B75751
        • Size 734B
        • SHA256 2787067d45e7d1bfd4c464584bf72760dbe43cb8cb2d19a64b5045fba69679d1
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        EB99792BBB089DB6C08C1E272F2DBA3A

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\Content\EB99792BBB089DB6C08C1E272F2DBA3A
        • Size 57KB
        • SHA256 5603fb71706c297f09ca4ff130542d925db610e642a790c1da711b19365de313
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        103621DE9CD5414CC2538780B4B75751

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\103621DE9CD5414CC2538780B4B75751
        • Size 192B
        • SHA256 94d6636655e04d5bb508ae7646f059b571b3c4aef2041892d6b38a1c00372c6a
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        EB99792BBB089DB6C08C1E272F2DBA3A

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\EB99792BBB089DB6C08C1E272F2DBA3A
        • Size 242B
        • SHA256 36619d25f4e7bfc92f88a2adfea7f1dd9210935ca10eaa21d88fe15b1f0d0bf4
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        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 TLSH

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 b37881a297cba69ca0ef06bd250dfa7a80c82a523092485021696c5b9c9530f6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 bc73e2dbd532e8eb2a3da1102ace5e224b86829f299e3ebb28ba63b50f8883a0
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 ca84835ed1792f999d04b9374f65e0b62e1688f631b7f46c64feb4c1896c6f7d
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        __PSScriptPolicyTest_dev0ss4j.wcx.ps1

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_dev0ss4j.wcx.ps1
        • Size 60B
        • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 560B
        • SHA256 841db078b3f7284dccf2367d61a6b1f80960141088e4eab4109250be019f3f21
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 fb2eea30ad34d21e848825f16c6f61d45073e414d772c02fdfeedcf650793e49
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 2KB
        • SHA256 6ac73d39c22c2411f518e93260b82d3ec644b136b5fdb3c384f6498fdd915feb
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 2KB
        • SHA256 f66ea8f89e5caa877f7eaaacdb8b284b2afd38155c566c18137a5249d3910320
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 3KB
        • SHA256 eb4fd6ef35c70ce1f40fa4c17d341ed8d0382d9313b93cb46e5ea2d491c6c1da
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 3KB
        • SHA256 b54b7fb8489d4469acea103599aba96a7e00f1733d488d86a795f8beeee29aeb
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 3KB
        • SHA256 c430aad7925b66e29f7fd58fa22c3cc6bf68f7819764106c82c8220ef93fe53a
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 4KB
        • SHA256 45e0399e67e742e80fc7ba936abc8ab729952f05499681dfb5464eabdd5b20fe
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 4KB
        • SHA256 ba154d6f726ba33468b0227d406f341def0aca1fb53a655889bf1efc98f05941
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 4KB
        • SHA256 30cf211bdbd118620ff77b36234917524f6f31406f11d903690ba6f496e722ae
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 5KB
        • SHA256 81d79d8aa7f81312fe14bdd1f092cd2aa84988d109139a173540839a9ead6cb8
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 5KB
        • SHA256 2bd6e34b2417abe67c83f36522c6d1a130ecc4cfdcaf033c2e7bacbba7744675
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 6KB
        • SHA256 cf02f0206a05cea2b56b9c2c0d3719055f3591d2ad73b091a80e45ab5beb7e42
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 6KB
        • SHA256 ddde79b1c8934d4bd506ab405fc47fd23aff873e37f4fb57bb7979cbc7846d39
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 7KB
        • SHA256 30c2e593677f3c1424531a9d2462685a489e178709998365163c75496b52938e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 7KB
        • SHA256 2b3732d61fd5356e0c23c7e846d53af5c8b39d2578d59c9e6aecfc1a82e67f2c
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 7KB
        • SHA256 0fe1e6c464252cbf409fab7d963ff7b37b6845814851a4614d14db53b0fc316a
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 8KB
        • SHA256 35c189c6809da9c426c667ccfbe9a7d624e0ee922058848d1dcca37a345361ad
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 8KB
        • SHA256 d22039816bf317bccd544b3b14e967e259f9553e3c0e32babc75fd111265a7a7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 9KB
        • SHA256 871c7b56f9e5ca4bb5cb0255906d130617cc10576b3b4e10e4a4a820d5eab3b1
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 9KB
        • SHA256 9eebdcfa6d5b1b04cee61901c82f21a25ef81577091d8517532179ac454be768
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 10KB
        • SHA256 e3a4a843ecd7a4fefe78d5c1ecf7fe6cfd2e5936d4292420c73d979ae9e63ee4
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 10KB
        • SHA256 0d17c5f5a6ff49e334ded01cdee767fa8af732c9251f245dd8f689620c4f2707
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 11KB
        • SHA256 fdcd1aafe2dcefa1d571e7a322fe4f55aba0c07e93776ad8942fd42815fd5026
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 11KB
        • SHA256 86f2bb37cece3454aedaf211498b2f6c77159dd7bab269b1f71cce7ae01ad9e5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 11KB
        • SHA256 63398c36a75949bdc43db14ed0f259eacb5ec08a49391d677940cc4c38ab8d72
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 12KB
        • SHA256 5f5977b3d46754c7af113b488a9a18fcb0f298862f63a00d850559634cd1a11d
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 12KB
        • SHA256 4b4a612be977935c60e7b2f946b2c9a105e888ad45bfe489ae36ec520fb25f03
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 13KB
        • SHA256 3a22ef2723a54a0364ffaf3bf318085eb4f2dbbcea0c491a25ee0002c37ab51b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 13KB
        • SHA256 1aa7604c8a3d154587421ab819d40c3d5a524c43b4b691b6727930c6f85358c6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 14KB
        • SHA256 64b250a80fd337f7520ca64499de3c9c44ced20ba6affaf938880a54f210b9f6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 14KB
        • SHA256 77c123c976ddfac24a65c3fd120c4e019f756daebb36be24328295695b7b789b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 5025cbb308857f29fadf6455a73fdd55d2a0840d642aa3eae6d3e06b0abc35f7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 de30b34b4e369734c9af65ac593af45348f4868657611314a632a4f192f6f429
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 3055082cd2f83b6d23b5b291b10477b497b442390fe9fed4ba64ff8416139a69
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 16KB
        • SHA256 2bae4c7ca43026517176ba38ad8212218fe27cb3fecb4f3e4f8777472efc323b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 16KB
        • SHA256 ebbced361eb6bb2230101dad07e539072fb2033292f701fcd2d014c32ead9b07
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 248e673784fd77095665dffb36a85384e89574e12e639543d255dba166511149
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        rat_debug.log

        • Path C:\Users\Public\rat_debug.log
        • Size 484B
        • SHA256 54912d62ca38be6f0e57caf77925a47b578de677bae994f9a25b63eb4aaf30fb
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        memory/1736-83-0x000000006FC00000-0x000000006FC4C000-memory.dmp

        memory/1736-110-0x0000000001480000-0x000000000149A000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-24-0x0000000005A10000-0x0000000005A76000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-62-0x000000006FC00000-0x000000006FC4C000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-25-0x0000000005A80000-0x0000000005AE6000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-107-0x0000000000CF0000-0x0000000000D0A000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-23-0x0000000005030000-0x0000000005052000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-22-0x00000000052E0000-0x000000000590A000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-77-0x0000000007010000-0x00000000070B4000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-39-0x0000000005FF0000-0x000000000600E000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-40-0x0000000006030000-0x000000000607C000-memory.dmp

        memory/2716-61-0x0000000006FC0000-0x0000000006FF4000-memory.dmp

        memory/3524-115-0x0000000001470000-0x00000000014EA000-memory.dmp

        memory/3724-90-0x000000006FC00000-0x000000006FC4C000-memory.dmp

        memory/3724-113-0x0000000000F80000-0x0000000000F9A000-memory.dmp

        memory/3768-114-0x0000000001150000-0x00000000011CA000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-38-0x0000000005E80000-0x00000000061D7000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-76-0x0000000007300000-0x000000000731E000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-80-0x00000000076D0000-0x00000000076DA000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-81-0x0000000007900000-0x0000000007996000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-82-0x0000000007870000-0x0000000007881000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-69-0x000000006FC00000-0x000000006FC4C000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-79-0x0000000007660000-0x000000000767A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-78-0x0000000007CA0000-0x000000000831A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-21-0x0000000004E80000-0x0000000004EB6000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-99-0x00000000079C0000-0x00000000079DA000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-97-0x00000000078A0000-0x00000000078AE000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-98-0x00000000078B0000-0x00000000078C5000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-103-0x0000000000D30000-0x0000000000D4A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4352-100-0x00000000079A0000-0x00000000079A8000-memory.dmp