34f9db946e89f031a80dfca7b16b2b686469c9886441261ae70a44da1dfa2d58

Analysis

max time kernel
149s
max time network
150s
platform
windows10-2004_x64
resource
win10v2004-20260513-en
resource tags

arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260513-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
submitted
25/05/2026, 12:19

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General

Target
arvest/Astute/img/Microsoft/arrow_left.svg
Size 513B
Sample260525-pg9faafv7q
SHA256 34f9db946e89f031a80dfca7b16b2b686469c9886441261ae70a44da1dfa2d58
MD5 a9cc2824ef3517b6c4160dcf8ff7d410
SHA1 8db9aebad84ca6e4225bfdd2458ff3821cc4f064
SHA512 aa3ddab0a1cff9533f9a668aba4fb5e3d75ed9f8aff8a1caa4c29f9126d85ff4529e82712c0119d2e81035d1ce1cc491ff9473384d211317d4d00e0e234ad97f
TLSH
T129F0598A41C8FB142CE08050DFF8EA28540270C3FB4E5008B1922B18E2EF383F6406F5
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

Score

3^/10

adware discovery spyware

Malware Config

Signatures

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

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

discovery

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

description	ioc	Process
Key opened	\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language	IEXPLORE.EXE

Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 32 IoCs

adware spyware

Modify Registry

T1112

description	ioc	Process
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DomainSuggestion\FileNames	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\CompatibilityFlags = "0"	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IESettingSync\SlowSettingTypesChanged = "2"	IEXPLORE.EXE
Set value (data)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage\DecayDateQueue = 01000000d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb0100000008e214533908c949bd6f849ed4c4ef820000000002000000000010660000000100002000000099852c10fc0864dc50bfae9b58e193cda3780b6ab697646c404dbd88e2a1b393000000000e8000000002000020000000fdc8e49e03767340f7dea66ed58d3fea250c151cdfa8b7362a0392198dfe3943200000004ecb2a5e7f08bacc6d209ba00cad09dd359ac3db31266d70a99c149a6b5a99f040000000c1b4bfc8153cb5cbe18db4f4e3868a75d7cff8a63b77de55481b5bc51d137bcf2c6c1f38fb2801814b51cbe4cca7ab8ac1eed3978c902af80920a8c9607da5a5	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DomainSuggestion	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DomainSuggestion\NextUpdateDate = "486476565"	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DomainSuggestion\FileNames\	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch	iexplore.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DomainSuggestion\FileNames\en-US = "en-US.1"	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\AdminActive\{0725DEA4-5834-11F1-B40A-7A3BE15C66E4} = "0"	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch	IEXPLORE.EXE
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main	IEXPLORE.EXE
Set value (data)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage\DecayDateQueue = 01000000d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb0100000008e214533908c949bd6f849ed4c4ef82000000000200000000001066000000010000200000003bed1dd3a16381830e5062a014118a7ec95a2fbbf16057d48bf9a9863e49ba92000000000e800000000200002000000081324a95d21c2b65b280fc68e449c7d59b422e1b671a11e9971d610ba51a9b2e2000000095870ee45d549de9611703615387e0be94f4d789083f7932934f362c8a38e97b4000000063ec3587b583a12b036526528321482cc7a7fd1d2afd2a36f8016d8b2bb70e997bbdbc77aa83ca39c77c287c2afee755914aa1605de8bebf7be6085751386fef	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DomainSuggestion	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\AdminActive	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\VersionManager	iexplore.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch\Version = "WS not running"	iexplore.exe
Set value (data)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window_Placement = 2c0000000200000003000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff2400000024000000aa04000089020000	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\PendingRecovery	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\VersionManager\LastCheckForUpdateLowDateTime = "3684572012"	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\VersionManager\LastCheckForUpdateHighDateTime = "31255616"	iexplore.exe
Set value (data)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage\LastProcessed = 401aef3d49ecdc01	iexplore.exe
Set value (data)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage\LastProcessed = 3046f63d49ecdc01	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Recovery\PendingRecovery\AdminActive = "0"	iexplore.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\WindowsSearch\Version = "WS not running"	IEXPLORE.EXE
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing	iexplore.exe
Set value (int)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NTPFirstRun = "1"	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DomainSuggestion\FileNames\	iexplore.exe
Set value (str)	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FullScreen = "no"	iexplore.exe
Key created	\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-540052884-2969440504-464782435-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IESettingSync	IEXPLORE.EXE

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs

pid	Process
2564	iexplore.exe

Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 6 IoCs

pid	Process
2564	iexplore.exe
2564	iexplore.exe
624	IEXPLORE.EXE
624	IEXPLORE.EXE
624	IEXPLORE.EXE
624	IEXPLORE.EXE

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 1 IoCs

description	pid	Process	procid_target
PID 2564 wrote to memory of 624	2564	iexplore.exe	88

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\arvest\Astute\img\Microsoft\arrow_left.svg
1⤵
- Modifies Internet Explorer settings
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2564
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE
  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" SCODEF:2564 CREDAT:17410 /prefetch:2
  2⤵
  - System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
  - Modifies Internet Explorer settings
  - Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
  PID:624

Network

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Defense Evasion

Modify Registry

T1112

Credential Access

Discovery

System Location Discovery

T1614

System Language Discovery

T1614.001

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

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Downloads

suggestions[1].en-US

Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\IE\ZVQID18K\suggestions[1].en-US
Size 17KB
SHA256 c6a5377cbc07eece33790cfc70572e12c7a48ad8296be25c0cc805a1f384dbad
MD5 5a34cb996293fde2cb7a4ac89587393a
SHA1 3c96c993500690d1a77873cd62bc639b3a10653f
SHA512 e1b7d0107733f81937415104e70f68b1be6fd0ca65dccf4ff72637943d44278d3a77f704aedff59d2dbc0d56a609b2590c8ec0dd6bc48ab30f1dad0c07a0a3ee
SSDEEP 384:K4gN8sGygaEKfWYSJUKbO7UckxtBjCdY7mO3D0C5l+piEieDSV126ry1/XSGKwG3:K4gNFXiKfWfJ1Kockxbd7mAt5Mp5ie2F
TLSH
T13A823E4E61D88F57EA47B6B2D9084EA702E0C8794716DB93D62CFE63CDE33B25D02161
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

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