Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
145s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
01/07/2026, 00:10
General
- Target AlphaXLauncher.exe
- Size 19KB
- Sample260701-af4fbact3s
- 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\AlphaXLauncher.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AlphaXLauncher.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_35xur4vi.ocx.ps1
memory/2624-189-0x0000000005B60000-0x0000000005B9C000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-190-0x000000000AC00000-0x000000000AC08000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-186-0x0000000000680000-0x00000000006B0000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-188-0x0000000004F40000-0x0000000004F52000-memory.dmp
memory/3036-0-0x00000000009D0000-0x00000000009DA000-memory.dmp
memory/3036-2-0x00000000052E0000-0x0000000005372000-memory.dmp
memory/3036-45-0x0000000005590000-0x00000000055A0000-memory.dmp
memory/3036-1-0x0000000005990000-0x0000000005F34000-memory.dmp
memory/4572-69-0x000000000ABD0000-0x000000000ABE2000-memory.dmp
memory/4572-68-0x000000000ABA0000-0x000000000ABAA000-memory.dmp
memory/4572-64-0x0000000009740000-0x000000000975E000-memory.dmp
memory/4572-63-0x000000000B350000-0x000000000B3C6000-memory.dmp
memory/4572-62-0x0000000009960000-0x000000000996E000-memory.dmp
memory/4572-61-0x0000000009980000-0x00000000099B8000-memory.dmp
memory/4572-60-0x0000000000420000-0x0000000000432000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-17-0x00000000054E0000-0x0000000005834000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-30-0x0000000006120000-0x000000000613E000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-34-0x00000000074D0000-0x0000000007B4A000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-35-0x0000000006E70000-0x0000000006E8A000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-36-0x0000000006EC0000-0x0000000006ECA000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-37-0x00000000070D0000-0x0000000007166000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-38-0x0000000007050000-0x0000000007061000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-39-0x0000000007080000-0x000000000708E000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-40-0x0000000007090000-0x00000000070A4000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-41-0x0000000007190000-0x00000000071AA000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-42-0x0000000007170000-0x0000000007178000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-31-0x0000000004830000-0x0000000004840000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-32-0x0000000004830000-0x0000000004840000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-33-0x0000000006DA0000-0x0000000006E43000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-22-0x0000000070390000-0x00000000703DC000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-21-0x00000000060E0000-0x0000000006112000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-20-0x000000007F2A0000-0x000000007F2B0000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-19-0x0000000005BD0000-0x0000000005C1C000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-18-0x0000000005B20000-0x0000000005B3E000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-9-0x0000000004D80000-0x0000000004DE6000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-8-0x0000000004D10000-0x0000000004D76000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-7-0x0000000004C70000-0x0000000004C92000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-6-0x0000000004E70000-0x0000000005498000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-5-0x0000000004830000-0x0000000004840000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-4-0x0000000002160000-0x0000000002196000-memory.dmp
memory/5504-3-0x0000000004830000-0x0000000004840000-memory.dmp