Analysis

  • user interaction
    yes
  • max time kernel
    131s
  • max time network
    108s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20260130-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260130-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    20/04/2026, 10:32

General

  • Target
    GuardianAngel.exe
  • Size 2.6MB
  • Sample260420-mk2thabz31
  • SHA256 dedee583479f6324f14e789f3b03271df82b352a0b92f6ac1c753722411d1418
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

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

  • Sets file to hidden 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Modifies file attributes to stop it showing in Explorer etc.

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Delays execution with timeout.exe 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 10 IoCs
  • Views/modifies file attributes 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\GuardianAngel.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\GuardianAngel.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3432
    • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
      C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c echo d | xcopy "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp" "C:\GuardianAngel\" /Y && attrib +s +h "C:\GuardianAngel" && "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -command "Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath \"C:\GuardianAngel\""
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4468
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /S /D /c" echo d "
        3⤵
          PID:4268
        • C:\Windows\system32\xcopy.exe
          xcopy "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp" "C:\GuardianAngel\" /Y
          3⤵
            PID:644
          • C:\Windows\system32\attrib.exe
            attrib +s +h "C:\GuardianAngel"
            3⤵
            • Sets file to hidden
            • Views/modifies file attributes
            PID:1248
          • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -command "Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath \"C:\GuardianAngel\""
            3⤵
            • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            PID:2840
        • C:\GuardianAngel\GuardianAngel.exe
          C:\GuardianAngel\GuardianAngel.exe -r "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp"
          2⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2008
          • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
            C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c TIMEOUT /T 2 /NOBREAK > NUL && echo y | rmdir /S "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp"
            3⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:3236
            • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
              TIMEOUT /T 2 /NOBREAK
              4⤵
              • Delays execution with timeout.exe
              PID:2116
            • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
              C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /S /D /c" echo y "
              4⤵
                PID:4208
              • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
                C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /S /D /c" rmdir /S "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp""
                4⤵
                  PID:1728
          • C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe
            C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {9aa46009-3ce0-458a-a354-715610a075e6} -Embedding
            1⤵
              PID:4812
            • C:\GuardianAngel\GuardianAngel.exe
              "C:\GuardianAngel\GuardianAngel.exe"
              1⤵
              • Executes dropped EXE
              • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
              PID:1516

            Network

                  MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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                  Downloads

                  22848e96-5fd9-40b0-bcde-17d086f1ff3c.tmp

                  • Path C:\GuardianAngel\22848e96-5fd9-40b0-bcde-17d086f1ff3c.tmp
                  • Size 145KB
                  • SHA256 88fd3339202fdf79ed79bfe483fcc57f322156f40cd75c47ee78efc5b203893a
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                  GuardianAngel.exe

                  • Path C:\GuardianAngel\GuardianAngel.exe
                  • Size 2.6MB
                  • SHA256 dedee583479f6324f14e789f3b03271df82b352a0b92f6ac1c753722411d1418
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                  eace2f37-8e7b-4901-ac56-86e2f8ba919d.tmp

                  • Path C:\GuardianAngel\eace2f37-8e7b-4901-ac56-86e2f8ba919d.tmp
                  • Size 10KB
                  • SHA256 67d161098be68cd24febc0c7b48f515f199dda72f20ae3bbb97fcf2542bb0550
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                  i.log

                  • Path C:\GuardianAngel\i.log
                  • Size 523B
                  • SHA256 c2a2cd007bed3ba124acb66a7ee8c26285954a638f86f902de22ab30636a34dc
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                  wct6617.tmp

                  • Path C:\GuardianAngel\wct6617.tmp
                  • Size 63KB
                  • SHA256 543796a1b343b4ebc0285d89cb8eb70667ac7b513da37495e38003704e9d88d7
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                  __PSScriptPolicyTest_sxdspedf.yxd.ps1

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

                  memory/2840-156-0x000001A6A5D10000-0x000001A6A5D20000-memory.dmp

                  memory/2840-157-0x000001A6A5D10000-0x000001A6A5D20000-memory.dmp

                  memory/2840-158-0x000001A6BFCC0000-0x000001A6BFCE2000-memory.dmp

                  memory/2840-166-0x000001A6A5D10000-0x000001A6A5D20000-memory.dmp

                  memory/2840-169-0x000001A6A5D40000-0x000001A6A5D4C000-memory.dmp

                  memory/2840-170-0x000001A6BFBD0000-0x000001A6BFC7D000-memory.dmp