Analysis

  • max time kernel
    145s
  • max time network
    148s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260617-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260617-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    23/06/2026, 11:14

General

  • Target
    _7aa0e249b5c1176344f5fa5579d39a095a08bcb156ffa1789c16c2828bb4cf13.exe
  • Size 10KB
  • Sample260623-ncgn2act7x
  • SHA256 7aa0e249b5c1176344f5fa5579d39a095a08bcb156ffa1789c16c2828bb4cf13
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • phorphiex

C2
  • http://130.12.180.190/us/

  • http://178.16.55.240/nmix/

  • http://178.16.55.240/nmixx/

  • http://91.92.242.107/lmix/

Mutex
  • ag44gg4

Attributes
  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/202.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36

Signatures

  • Family: Phorphiex, Phorpiex

    Phorphiex or Phorpiex Malware family which infects systems to distribute other malicious payloads such as ransomware, stealers and cryptominers.

  • Family: xmrig

    XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

  • XMRig Miner payload 8 IoCs
  • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Active Setup 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Adversaries may achieve persistence by adding a Registry key to the Active Setup of the local machine.

  • Downloads MZ/PE file 6 IoCs
  • Creates new service(s) 2 TTPs
  • Executes dropped EXE 7 IoCs
  • Stops running service(s) 4 TTPs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

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

  • Launches sc.exe 4 IoCs

    Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 6 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 62 IoCs

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

  • Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 38 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 7 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 56 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 53 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 42 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 7 IoCs
  • Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs

    The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.

  • Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider

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

  • 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\_7aa0e249b5c1176344f5fa5579d39a095a08bcb156ffa1789c16c2828bb4cf13.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_7aa0e249b5c1176344f5fa5579d39a095a08bcb156ffa1789c16c2828bb4cf13.exe"
    1⤵
    • Downloads MZ/PE file
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:828
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1303431337.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1303431337.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4000
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4110635583.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4110635583.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5484
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3169713226.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3169713226.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4192
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1967523686.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1967523686.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4212
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3490034044.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3490034044.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5536
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026411785.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026411785.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      PID:2480
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe delete "winmgr"
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:5228
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe create "winmgr" binpath= "C:\ProgramData\winmgr\syswinprdrvc.exe" start= "auto"
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:2720
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop eventlog
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:5372
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe start "winmgr"
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:2504
  • C:\Windows\system32\sihost.exe
    sihost.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2416
    • C:\Windows\explorer.exe
      explorer.exe /LOADSAVEDWINDOWS
      2⤵
      • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Active Setup
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Checks SCSI registry key(s)
      • Modifies Internet Explorer settings
      • Modifies registry class
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
      • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
      PID:1240
  • C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchHost.exe
    "C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchHost.exe" -ServerName:CortanaUI.AppXstmwaab17q5s3y22tp6apqz7a45vwv65.mca
    1⤵
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:252
  • C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe
    "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe" -ServerName:App.AppXywbrabmsek0gm3tkwpr5kwzbs55tkqay.mca
    1⤵
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:4312
  • C:\ProgramData\winmgr\syswinprdrvc.exe
    C:\ProgramData\winmgr\syswinprdrvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    PID:1032
    • C:\Windows\system32\dwm.exe
      dwm.exe
      2⤵
        PID:4496

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache
          • Size 599B
          • SHA256 b536a3dae9ea5c69081f0491eed829e3b57e32401fdf49a63031bcd6b20e6fdb
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          1303431337.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1303431337.exe
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 df482da0d9a366592795d1f87f174eae6a423b01d4d4a9c7b022e17c38395d73
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          1967523686.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1967523686.exe
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 47088023cf22c95f436e6fb08c208f172504668f3d620b6a558e19b0695bdb04
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          2026411785.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026411785.exe
          • Size 6.8MB
          • SHA256 9639f7ebc6a6d69d7bf5b8bc869e7783a1406088f192868624ad8919e9bfd1d4
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          3169713226.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3169713226.exe
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 cac977b50d2505405e729e623025a03b60a58e92b0b75c272242592139985ddb
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          3490034044.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3490034044.exe
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 96ada74774413c01c0e7d4707d9837bb30dba9132cc3519178e890596f2b5dbd
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          4110635583.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4110635583.exe
          • Size 18KB
          • SHA256 9332cd4e9ce6ed2b6f53661ab38877b512826fb84f7b1d4465edbd9d82136d1b
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/252-18-0x0000026D02DD0000-0x0000026D02DF0000-memory.dmp

          memory/252-7-0x0000026D028E0000-0x0000026D02900000-memory.dmp

          memory/252-1-0x0000026D001C0000-0x0000026D002C0000-memory.dmp

          memory/252-47-0x0000026D141D0000-0x0000026D141F0000-memory.dmp

          memory/252-8-0x0000026D02E10000-0x0000026D02F10000-memory.dmp

          memory/4312-190-0x0000023C35000000-0x0000023C35691000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-253-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-248-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-252-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-251-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-250-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-249-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-247-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-246-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4496-255-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp