Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
58s - max time network
59s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
28/06/2026, 04:32
General
- Target HxDSetup.exe
- Size 3.3MB
- Sample260628-e6grfsfs6j
- SHA256 dccfa4b16aa79e273cc7ffc35493c495a7fd09f92a4b790f2dc41c65f64d5378
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
- Checks installed software on the system 1 TTPs
Looks up Uninstall key entries in the registry to enumerate software on the system.
- Drops file in Program Files directory 8 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Inno Setup is an open-source installation builder for Windows applications. 3 IoCs
Inno Setup installer
- Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 6 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\HxDSetup.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\HxDSetup.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-GVTJV.tmp\HxDSetup.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-GVTJV.tmp\HxDSetup.tmp" /SL5="$70230,2973524,121344,C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\HxDSetup.exe"2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\NOTEPAD.EXE"C:\Windows\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE" C:\Program Files\HxD\readme.txt3⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Program Files\HxD\HxD.exe"C:\Program Files\HxD\HxD.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files\HxD\HxD.exe"C:\Program Files\HxD\HxD.exe" /chooselang4⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
HxD.exe
readme.txt
HxDSetup.tmp
HxD Hex Editor.lang
memory/1068-45-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000AA8000-memory.dmp
memory/1844-49-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000AA8000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-46-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052E000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-37-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052E000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-8-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000052E000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-9-0x00000000021A0000-0x00000000021A1000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-5-0x00000000021A0000-0x00000000021A1000-memory.dmp
memory/3624-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000428000-memory.dmp
memory/3624-7-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000428000-memory.dmp
memory/3624-48-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000428000-memory.dmp