Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    150s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260629-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    02/07/2026, 00:24

General

  • Target
    a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.exe
  • Size 2.1MB
  • Sample260702-ap2cbagx6l
  • SHA256 a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

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 1 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

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

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Using powershell.exe command.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 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. 2 IoCs

    Inno Setup installer

  • 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 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 37 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 53 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 43 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 3 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\a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:5444
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-N5AKB.tmp\a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.tmp
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-N5AKB.tmp\a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.tmp" /SL5="$502BE,1147414,907264,C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:2928
      • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "powershell.exe" -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "$o='C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-3IA9N.tmp\gamingroots_async.txt';$result=New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[string];$drives=Get-PSDrive -PSProvider FileSystem | Where-Object { $_.Root -match '^[A-Z]:\\$' };foreach($d in $drives){$p=Join-Path $d.Root '.GamingRoot';if(Test-Path $p){$b=[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($p);if($b.Length -ge 10 -and $b[0] -eq 0x52 -and $b[1] -eq 0x47 -and $b[2] -eq 0x42 -and $b[3] -eq 0x58){$i=8;$bytes=New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[byte];while($i+1 -lt $b.Length){if($b[$i] -eq 0 -and $b[$i+1] -eq 0){break};$bytes.Add($b[$i]);$bytes.Add($b[$i+1]);$i=$i+2};$s=[System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString($bytes.ToArray());$result.Add($d.Root + $s)}}};[System.IO.File]::WriteAllLines($o,$result,[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8);"
        3⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:3944
  • C:\Windows\system32\sihost.exe
    sihost.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4752
    • 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:1928
  • 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:3156
  • 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:1056
  • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k GPSvcGroup
    1⤵
      PID:4612

    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

          idp.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-3IA9N.tmp\idp.dll
          • Size 232KB
          • SHA256 54e7e0ad32a22b775131a6288f083ed3286a9a436941377fc20f85dd9ad983ed
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-N5AKB.tmp\a517beef1c7e400c01882440a112fa218e31fa1ed4405777c43e8825ddeef23e.tmp
          • Size 3.1MB
          • SHA256 31d2794f49fd499630ce08969c879f453d37922463d04a1da374f535e171f17f
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/1928-214-0x000000000DF60000-0x000000000E7DB000-memory.dmp

          memory/2928-6-0x0000000002510000-0x0000000002511000-memory.dmp

          memory/2928-216-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071F000-memory.dmp

          memory/2928-31-0x0000000002510000-0x0000000002511000-memory.dmp

          memory/2928-30-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071F000-memory.dmp

          memory/2928-37-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071F000-memory.dmp

          memory/3156-88-0x0000018882D70000-0x0000018882D90000-memory.dmp

          memory/3156-58-0x00000188801E0000-0x00000188802E0000-memory.dmp

          memory/3156-72-0x0000018882A30000-0x0000018882A50000-memory.dmp

          memory/3156-104-0x0000018894210000-0x0000018894230000-memory.dmp

          memory/3156-73-0x0000018882E90000-0x0000018882F90000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-17-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-18-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-28-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-24-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-12-0x00007FFDAF6AF000-0x00007FFDAF6B0000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-23-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-22-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-21-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-20-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-19-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-27-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-15-0x00007FFDAF520000-0x00007FFDAFEC4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3944-16-0x000001B068B10000-0x000001B068B32000-memory.dmp

          memory/5444-0-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004EB000-memory.dmp

          memory/5444-29-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004EB000-memory.dmp