Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    98s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20260130-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20260130-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    18/04/2026, 17:22

General

  • Target
    $R0/Uninstall Modern Metal Fish.exe
  • Size 162KB
  • Sample260418-vxnreadv7p
  • SHA256 1871878af817cfbb55b7e5ca2914baab2613a4c61c83860667f745bc694ad4cb
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 6 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 Modern Metal Fish.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\Uninstall Modern Metal Fish.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1448
    • 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:4264
      • 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:4692
      • 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:1136
      • 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:484

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 3d0f7285c2d4c6eba25895c0ba95832e5af0f131c3bbdf3b1fc79aa980ad24a0
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 16KB
        • SHA256 1eb0a7eed114e71c2f26efe39a0372a995c948908c0359f33d5b915978b8d1f7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        __PSScriptPolicyTest_hodwvqdv.g1e.ps1

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_hodwvqdv.g1e.ps1
        • Size 60B
        • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        StdUtils.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx58CA.tmp\StdUtils.dll
        • Size 100KB
        • SHA256 b72e9013a6204e9f01076dc38dabbf30870d44dfc66962adbf73619d4331601e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        System.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx58CA.tmp\System.dll
        • Size 12KB
        • SHA256 3eb38ae99653a7dbc724132ee240f6e5c4af4bfe7c01d31d23faf373f9f2eaca
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        WinShell.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx58CA.tmp\WinShell.dll
        • Size 3KB
        • SHA256 9be85b986ea66a6997dde658abe82b3147ed2a1a3dcb784bb5176f41d22815a6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        nsExec.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx58CA.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 162KB
        • SHA256 1871878af817cfbb55b7e5ca2914baab2613a4c61c83860667f745bc694ad4cb
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/484-91-0x00000000069A0000-0x00000000069EC000-memory.dmp

        memory/484-92-0x0000000070650000-0x000000007069C000-memory.dmp

        memory/484-83-0x0000000006300000-0x0000000006657000-memory.dmp

        memory/484-99-0x0000000007B00000-0x0000000007BA4000-memory.dmp

        memory/484-100-0x0000000070880000-0x0000000070BD7000-memory.dmp

        memory/484-102-0x00000000056E0000-0x00000000056E6000-memory.dmp

        memory/1136-71-0x0000000007490000-0x0000000007526000-memory.dmp

        memory/1136-74-0x0000000002AE0000-0x0000000002AE6000-memory.dmp

        memory/1136-72-0x0000000007400000-0x0000000007411000-memory.dmp

        memory/1136-64-0x0000000070670000-0x00000000706BC000-memory.dmp

        memory/1448-4-0x0000000000B10000-0x0000000000BCB000-memory.dmp

        memory/4264-30-0x0000000000A60000-0x0000000000B1B000-memory.dmp

        memory/4264-114-0x0000000002AF0000-0x0000000002AF6000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-44-0x00000000075A0000-0x0000000007C1A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-28-0x0000000005B50000-0x0000000005B6E000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-45-0x0000000006F40000-0x0000000006F5A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-46-0x0000000006FC0000-0x0000000006FCA000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-47-0x0000000007150000-0x000000000717A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-48-0x0000000007180000-0x00000000071A4000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-49-0x00000000707D0000-0x0000000070B27000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-52-0x0000000002770000-0x0000000002776000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-43-0x0000000006E70000-0x0000000006F14000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-29-0x0000000005B80000-0x0000000005BCC000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-42-0x0000000006B20000-0x0000000006B3E000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-31-0x000000007F180000-0x000000007F190000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-34-0x0000000004980000-0x0000000004990000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-35-0x0000000004980000-0x0000000004990000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-27-0x00000000056D0000-0x0000000005A27000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-20-0x0000000005660000-0x00000000056C6000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-19-0x00000000055F0000-0x0000000005656000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-18-0x0000000004DE0000-0x0000000004E02000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-17-0x0000000004FC0000-0x00000000055EA000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-16-0x0000000004980000-0x0000000004990000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-15-0x0000000002680000-0x00000000026B6000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-14-0x0000000004980000-0x0000000004990000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-33-0x0000000070670000-0x00000000706BC000-memory.dmp

        memory/4692-32-0x0000000006110000-0x0000000006144000-memory.dmp