Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
82s - max time network
84s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
01/07/2026, 00:08
General
- Target Alpha X Launcher.exe
- Size 19KB
- Sample260701-ae5a8aax2n
- SHA256 1934f0295229c7add71777f10dac0a91272a2c8769ef3742f80d498037673079
Malware Config
Signatures
- Downloads MZ/PE file 3 IoCs
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Contacts third-party web service commonly abused for C2 1 TTPs 6 IoCs
Legitimate web (hosting) services can be abused by malware authors to host malware or C2s.
- Costura .NET executable packer 1 IoCs
Costura packer aka Costura Fody, is an add-in for the .NET framework that embeds all external dependency .dll files as resources inside main executable.
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Using powershell.exe command.
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 4 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 3 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Alpha X Launcher.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Alpha X Launcher.exe"1⤵
- Downloads MZ/PE file
- Checks computer location settings
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"powershell.exe" -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Get-MpComputerStatus | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AntivirusEnabled"2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Bin\AlphaXBootstrapper.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Bin\AlphaXBootstrapper.exe"2⤵
- Downloads MZ/PE file
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Bin\AlphaX.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Bin\AlphaX.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
AlphaX.exe
AlphaX.exe.config
AlphaXBootstrapper.exe
__PSScriptPolicyTest_gkyctusy.qc0.ps1
memory/1712-35-0x00000000077E0000-0x00000000077FA000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-38-0x00000000079E0000-0x00000000079F1000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-6-0x0000000005510000-0x0000000005B38000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-7-0x0000000005BB0000-0x0000000005BD2000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-9-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005D26000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-8-0x0000000005C50000-0x0000000005CB6000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-4-0x0000000002E80000-0x0000000002EB6000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-17-0x0000000005E70000-0x00000000061C4000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-18-0x00000000064C0000-0x00000000064DE000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-19-0x0000000006550000-0x000000000659C000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-20-0x000000007FBE0000-0x000000007FBF0000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-21-0x00000000076B0000-0x00000000076E2000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-22-0x000000006FB10000-0x000000006FB5C000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-32-0x0000000006A90000-0x0000000006AAE000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-31-0x0000000002E70000-0x0000000002E80000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-30-0x0000000002E70000-0x0000000002E80000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-33-0x00000000076F0000-0x0000000007793000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-34-0x0000000007E30000-0x00000000084AA000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-3-0x0000000002E70000-0x0000000002E80000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-36-0x0000000007850000-0x000000000785A000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-5-0x0000000002E70000-0x0000000002E80000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-39-0x0000000007A10000-0x0000000007A1E000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-37-0x0000000007A60000-0x0000000007AF6000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-40-0x0000000007A20000-0x0000000007A34000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-41-0x0000000007B20000-0x0000000007B3A000-memory.dmp
memory/1712-42-0x0000000007B00000-0x0000000007B08000-memory.dmp
memory/3028-69-0x0000000009780000-0x0000000009792000-memory.dmp
memory/3028-68-0x0000000009750000-0x000000000975A000-memory.dmp
memory/3028-60-0x0000000000320000-0x0000000000332000-memory.dmp
memory/3028-61-0x000000000A850000-0x000000000A888000-memory.dmp
memory/3028-62-0x000000000A820000-0x000000000A82E000-memory.dmp
memory/3028-64-0x000000000B920000-0x000000000B93E000-memory.dmp
memory/3028-63-0x000000000B9A0000-0x000000000BA16000-memory.dmp
memory/3952-1-0x00000000057D0000-0x0000000005D74000-memory.dmp
memory/3952-0-0x0000000000800000-0x000000000080A000-memory.dmp
memory/3952-2-0x0000000005220000-0x00000000052B2000-memory.dmp
memory/3952-45-0x0000000005490000-0x00000000054A0000-memory.dmp
memory/4892-186-0x0000000000BB0000-0x0000000000BE0000-memory.dmp
memory/4892-188-0x0000000005470000-0x0000000005482000-memory.dmp
memory/4892-189-0x0000000006910000-0x000000000694C000-memory.dmp
memory/4892-190-0x0000000005F50000-0x0000000005F58000-memory.dmp