Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    139s
  • platform
    windows11-21h2_x64
  • resource
    win11-20260513-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20260513-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    20/05/2026, 17:43

General

  • Target
    TEKLİF_İSTEĞİ_Tübitak_SAGE_RFQ_xlsx.exe
  • Size 866KB
  • Sample260520-wasbrae15p
  • SHA256 5b03e56fa88be176ff444e542aef663ee12bdcf8d8b6e5799a9ff78b9c4a20ab
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • vipkeylogger

Credentials

Signatures

  • Family: VIPKeylogger

    VIPKeylogger is a keylogger and infostealer written in C# and it resembles SnakeKeylogger that was found in 2020.

  • 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.

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Reads user/profile data of local email clients 2 TTPs

    Email clients store some user data on disk where infostealers will often target it.

  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 3 TTPs

    Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.

  • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
  • Looks up external IP address via web service 3 IoCs

    Uses a legitimate IP lookup service to find the infected system's external IP.

  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • Browser Information Discovery 1 TTPs

    Enumerate browser information.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • Program crash 1 IoCs
  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 9 IoCs

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

  • 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 16 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 7 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 11 IoCs
  • outlook_office_path 1 IoCs
  • outlook_win_path 1 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\TEKLİF_İSTEĞİ_Tübitak_SAGE_RFQ_xlsx.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\TEKLİF_İSTEĞİ_Tübitak_SAGE_RFQ_xlsx.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4580
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\TEKLİF_İSTEĞİ_Tübitak_SAGE_RFQ_xlsx.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1928
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:4332
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\hEPzte" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp659B.tmp"
      2⤵
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:3752
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
      C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 4580 -s 1792
      2⤵
      • Program crash
      PID:1588
  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 408 -p 4580 -ip 4580
    1⤵
      PID:4564
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe
      1⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4724
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe"
        2⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:1264
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe"
        2⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:4224
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /Create /TN "Updates\hEPzte" /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpA812.tmp"
        2⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
        PID:1452
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe"
        2⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Accesses Microsoft Outlook profiles
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • outlook_office_path
        • outlook_win_path
        PID:5060

    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 9600b3fdf0565ccb49e21656aa4b24d7c18f776bfd04d9ee984b134707550f02
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 38e7e683c4ba55532291dcc66a15ffcd28e2393f795e91d722d20f85f11113ee
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 ab7cc14b64d24549a1acf76c4e12a1acfd9ac13a69d47f40395a6d7774323d21
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          __PSScriptPolicyTest_mpbpzcb4.zv0.ps1

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_mpbpzcb4.zv0.ps1
          • Size 60B
          • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          tmp659B.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp659B.tmp
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 20dfa6d4b7c752fa50dd67ecf031cbc83fcd1e31129c8da45cba7e060df96090
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          hEPzte.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\hEPzte.exe
          • Size 866KB
          • SHA256 5b03e56fa88be176ff444e542aef663ee12bdcf8d8b6e5799a9ff78b9c4a20ab
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/1264-106-0x0000000007130000-0x00000000071D4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1264-92-0x0000000070E70000-0x0000000070EBC000-memory.dmp

          memory/1264-107-0x0000000007430000-0x0000000007441000-memory.dmp

          memory/1264-108-0x0000000007470000-0x0000000007485000-memory.dmp

          memory/1928-53-0x000000006F6E0000-0x000000006F72C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1928-16-0x00000000026C0000-0x00000000026F6000-memory.dmp

          memory/1928-17-0x0000000002710000-0x0000000002720000-memory.dmp

          memory/1928-19-0x0000000005310000-0x000000000593A000-memory.dmp

          memory/4224-91-0x0000000006200000-0x000000000624C000-memory.dmp

          memory/4224-93-0x0000000070E70000-0x0000000070EBC000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-41-0x000000006F6E0000-0x000000006F72C000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-61-0x0000000007720000-0x0000000007731000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-23-0x0000000005520000-0x0000000005586000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-22-0x00000000054B0000-0x0000000005516000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-18-0x0000000005020000-0x0000000005030000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-36-0x00000000061C0000-0x00000000061DE000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-65-0x0000000007850000-0x0000000007858000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-37-0x00000000061E0000-0x000000000622C000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-64-0x0000000007860000-0x000000000787A000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-40-0x0000000007180000-0x00000000071B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-48-0x00000000067A0000-0x00000000067BE000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-49-0x00000000073C0000-0x0000000007464000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-50-0x0000000007B50000-0x00000000081CA000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-51-0x0000000007510000-0x000000000752A000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-52-0x0000000007590000-0x000000000759A000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-63-0x0000000007760000-0x0000000007775000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-60-0x00000000077A0000-0x0000000007836000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-20-0x0000000005020000-0x0000000005030000-memory.dmp

          memory/4332-62-0x0000000007750000-0x000000000775E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-7-0x0000000005140000-0x0000000005162000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-3-0x0000000005100000-0x0000000005110000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-11-0x000000000C8E0000-0x000000000C97C000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-9-0x0000000005100000-0x0000000005110000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-8-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CDE000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-1-0x00000000053B0000-0x0000000005956000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-0-0x0000000000330000-0x000000000040E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-5-0x0000000005960000-0x0000000005CB7000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-10-0x00000000048A0000-0x000000000492E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-4-0x0000000005050000-0x000000000505A000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-6-0x00000000050E0000-0x00000000050F2000-memory.dmp

          memory/4580-2-0x0000000004EB0000-0x0000000004F42000-memory.dmp

          memory/5060-87-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000448000-memory.dmp

          memory/5060-112-0x0000000006FD0000-0x0000000007192000-memory.dmp

          memory/5060-113-0x0000000006E70000-0x0000000006EC0000-memory.dmp