Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
30s - max time network
36s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260629-en - resource tags
- submitted
01/07/2026, 00:08
General
- Target Alpha X Launcher.exe
- Size 19KB
- Sample260701-ae5a8aax2n
- SHA256 1934f0295229c7add71777f10dac0a91272a2c8769ef3742f80d498037673079
Malware Config
Signatures
- 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.
- 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.
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 2 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
- 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.
- Checks SCSI registry key(s) 3 TTPs 42 IoCs
SCSI information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Modifies registry class 14 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 37 IoCs
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 7 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 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⤵
- 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⤵
- 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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C:\Windows\system32\sihost.exesihost.exe1⤵
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\explorer.exeexplorer.exe /LOADSAVEDWINDOWS2⤵
- 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
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C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchHost.exe"C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchHost.exe" -ServerName:CortanaUI.AppXstmwaab17q5s3y22tp6apqz7a45vwv65.mca1⤵
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C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe"C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe" -ServerName:App.AppXywbrabmsek0gm3tkwpr5kwzbs55tkqay.mca1⤵
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache
prep_Activatable Class_Hermes_perf.cache
AlphaX.exe
AlphaX.exe.config
AlphaXBootstrapper.exe
memory/1888-176-0x0000000006D40000-0x0000000006D7C000-memory.dmp
memory/1888-177-0x000000000ADC0000-0x000000000ADC8000-memory.dmp
memory/1888-175-0x0000000005990000-0x00000000059A2000-memory.dmp
memory/1888-174-0x00000000005A0000-0x00000000005D0000-memory.dmp
memory/2356-4-0x0000000074CE2000-0x0000000074CE3000-memory.dmp
memory/2356-34-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/2356-3-0x0000000005800000-0x0000000005892000-memory.dmp
memory/2356-2-0x0000000005CE0000-0x000000000629A000-memory.dmp
memory/2356-0-0x0000000074CE2000-0x0000000074CE3000-memory.dmp
memory/2356-47-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/2356-1-0x0000000000DE0000-0x0000000000DEA000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-15-0x0000000005F70000-0x00000000062CB000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-6-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-18-0x0000000007660000-0x0000000007696000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-24-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-23-0x0000000006A80000-0x0000000006AA0000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-25-0x00000000076C0000-0x0000000007763000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-26-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-27-0x0000000007E40000-0x00000000084BC000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-28-0x0000000007800000-0x000000000781A000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-29-0x0000000007870000-0x000000000787A000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-30-0x0000000007A70000-0x0000000007B06000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-31-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-33-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-21-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-17-0x00000000064C0000-0x000000000650C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-16-0x0000000006490000-0x00000000064AE000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-5-0x0000000002C50000-0x0000000002C86000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-7-0x0000000005750000-0x0000000005D9A000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-19-0x00000000708C0000-0x000000007090C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-8-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-9-0x0000000074CD0000-0x000000007548C000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-10-0x00000000055C0000-0x00000000055E2000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-12-0x0000000005E80000-0x0000000005EE6000-memory.dmp
memory/3480-11-0x0000000005E10000-0x0000000005E76000-memory.dmp
memory/4468-366-0x000000000A4E0000-0x000000000A73F000-memory.dmp
memory/4784-191-0x0000023301A50000-0x0000023301A70000-memory.dmp
memory/4784-205-0x0000023301D70000-0x0000023301D90000-memory.dmp
memory/4784-225-0x0000023314210000-0x0000023314230000-memory.dmp
memory/4784-192-0x0000023301E50000-0x0000023301F50000-memory.dmp
memory/4784-179-0x00000233001E0000-0x00000233002E0000-memory.dmp
memory/5868-52-0x000000000A770000-0x000000000A78E000-memory.dmp
memory/5868-51-0x000000000BDB0000-0x000000000BE26000-memory.dmp
memory/5868-50-0x000000000B1D0000-0x000000000B1DE000-memory.dmp
memory/5868-57-0x000000000C0C0000-0x000000000C0D2000-memory.dmp
memory/5868-49-0x000000000B200000-0x000000000B23E000-memory.dmp
memory/5868-48-0x0000000000AD0000-0x0000000000AE2000-memory.dmp
memory/5868-56-0x000000000C090000-0x000000000C09A000-memory.dmp