Analysis

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

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11-20260513-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-21h2-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    08/06/2026, 12:44

General

  • Target
    ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe
  • Size 5.4MB
  • Sample260608-pypr7ses8x
  • SHA256 585cc4a773e43663a0faba951f836bb71443105225f2a3c6e95367a2c40d8526
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Signed with revoked ConnectWise certificate 1 IoCs

    Binary is signed using a ConnectWise certificate revoked for key compromise.

  • Badlisted process makes network request 3 IoCs

    Network request originating from process or tool commonly abused by malware.

  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 46 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Drops file in Program Files directory 17 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 15 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 11 IoCs
  • 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.

  • Checks SCSI registry key(s) 3 TTPs 5 IoCs

    SCSI information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 3 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 32 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs
  • Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

    The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2664
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe" /i "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect\25.2.4.9229\83dc569f9508ab90\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi"
      2⤵
      • Badlisted process makes network request
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      PID:5704
  • C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /V
    1⤵
    • Badlisted process makes network request
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Drops file in Windows directory
    • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4548
    • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
      C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding E4B9A9A0FA8FAEEB819A727431E4EF1F C
      2⤵
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:2388
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
        rundll32.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI436D.tmp",zzzzInvokeManagedCustomActionOutOfProc SfxCA_240665500 1 ScreenConnect.InstallerActions!ScreenConnect.ClientInstallerActions.FixupServiceArguments
        3⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:1964
    • C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe ExecuteScopeRestorePoint /WaitForRestorePoint:2
      2⤵
        PID:3120
      • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
        C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding D5FBEB2987E7EEE753AED235713097EF
        2⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:2740
    • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      1⤵
      • Checks SCSI registry key(s)
      PID:3076

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          e5872da.rbs

          • Path C:\Config.Msi\e5872da.rbs
          • Size 10KB
          • SHA256 9c824d87b306e57b9e91762b6b481b125ee1d8e110dcdfa03d35676bd05e8371
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\Content\57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157
          • Size 4KB
          • SHA256 0300e9ddb527990e8b59d06e9ccf3ec2bd92d3bbd0ef4fba69d6336e4195e82d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157
          • Size 342B
          • SHA256 83855ab0ec0bbdcf2ef6b34f95786f9bd16fe38c753de8064afe0a1a1e68d79d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          MSI436D.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI436D.tmp
          • Size 1.0MB
          • SHA256 df08b98808c85da1d1ac7338dab9e4f0beeceee270d95bce2e044feb6117dfa6
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI436D.tmp-\Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll
          • Size 172KB
          • SHA256 3e54286e348ebd3d70eaed8174cca500455c3e098cdd1fccb167bc43d93db29d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Core.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI436D.tmp-\ScreenConnect.Core.dll
          • Size 538KB
          • SHA256 b8100e5ab07983cbf82d721cf719576ca3f60e352628dcaabd42d428011fdedf
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.InstallerActions.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI436D.tmp-\ScreenConnect.InstallerActions.dll
          • Size 11KB
          • SHA256 c79a22accadb1f8a716669ca68c6d6f4e9a21c0d639e2846f288b60bc8adc770
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Windows.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI436D.tmp-\ScreenConnect.Windows.dll
          • Size 1.6MB
          • SHA256 da29455a64858fda773319c32c0a6cd40edbe8042ed005aa2befb8a4f0fb0522
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect\25.2.4.9229\83dc569f9508ab90\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi
          • Size 13.0MB
          • SHA256 55ef41b9731eed2618c5c0eeace4c2c0026550cd80f5f6b352d3250319437f91
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect\25.2.4.9229\83dc569f9508ab90\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi
          • Size 13.0MB
          • SHA256 1b57698859530cadfc850d5dab75aa4c61ee4fe27a77549f60989668033cd600
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          MSI750D.tmp

          • Path C:\Windows\Installer\MSI750D.tmp
          • Size 202KB
          • SHA256 3cff4ac91288a0ff0c13278e73b282a64e83d089c5a61a45d483194ab336b852
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          metadata-2

          • Path \??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2\System Volume Information\SPP\metadata-2
          • Size 24.6MB
          • SHA256 324dd1a4fa3ef2cd5474733cb8ac03eb14d4812834e10adb0536c7f38b17ea4a
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          {8b21fe08-eb10-49a2-9b05-a22d54ff6ab0}_OnDiskSnapshotProp

          • Path \??\Volume{13ce4998-0000-0000-0000-d01200000000}\System Volume Information\SPP\OnlineMetadataCache\{8b21fe08-eb10-49a2-9b05-a22d54ff6ab0}_OnDiskSnapshotProp
          • Size 6KB
          • SHA256 fd793f30bcbe0482b2e91ddf597364928f50956ef530b224963d4158509250d1
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/1964-47-0x0000000004F70000-0x0000000004FFC000-memory.dmp

          memory/1964-39-0x0000000004E70000-0x0000000004E9E000-memory.dmp

          memory/1964-51-0x00000000051B0000-0x000000000535C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1964-43-0x0000000004EB0000-0x0000000004EBA000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-8-0x0000000006070000-0x0000000006616000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-0-0x0000000003050000-0x0000000003060000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-7-0x00000000055D0000-0x000000000577C000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-9-0x0000000003050000-0x0000000003060000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-6-0x0000000003030000-0x0000000003052000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-5-0x0000000005540000-0x00000000055CC000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-4-0x00000000057D0000-0x0000000005AC2000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-3-0x0000000003050000-0x0000000003060000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-2-0x0000000003050000-0x0000000003060000-memory.dmp

          memory/2664-1-0x0000000002FF0000-0x0000000002FF8000-memory.dmp