Overview
overview
10Static
static
3nCoreLaunc...up.exe
windows10-2004-x64
10nCoreLaunc...up.exe
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
10$PLUGINSDI...dl.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...dl.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...em.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...em.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
8$PLUGINSDI...gs.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...gs.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...ec.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...ec.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
128s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260629-en - resource tags
arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260629-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows - submitted
04/07/2026, 14:42
Static task
static1
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe
Resource
win10v2004-20260513-en
Behavioral task
behavioral2
Sample
nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
Behavioral task
behavioral3
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/NSISdl.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260513-en
Behavioral task
behavioral4
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/NSISdl.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
Behavioral task
behavioral5
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/System.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260513-en
Behavioral task
behavioral6
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/System.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
Behavioral task
behavioral7
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsDialogs.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260513-en
Behavioral task
behavioral8
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsDialogs.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
Behavioral task
behavioral9
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsExec.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260513-en
Behavioral task
behavioral10
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsExec.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
General
- Target nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe
- Size 358KB
- Sample260704-r282csct3p
- SHA256 ddebbc1ab1fc10722c35e5e18072ffa888dd39cfb06d655affb945cf07e9dce6
- MD5 ef73e58caef4843d3d1f525c37d9f1ab
- SHA1 85bf64644634125edb40b799ba5f84ef2afdc187
- SHA512 3ea11d7d4c785a4ed8db1834d525d5c529c382922edb51af0ff152cd31eca0c75efe2881c3a2270afc1e8776af82a37aea29b254fccf253c40055393e511fad6
- SSDEEP 6144:/lnhrwtlI+CRSeyCGEgDITJNQtsC3nBot3VmS/So3czJWF7YtTztLAooKE:/lnUCx/sDcrsssilmS33czJWF7SZwKE
- TLSH T1427412635340D873D49A477026392DB31FEDF92426A9AB0F5B10A6ECBE17210DC1E7A7
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Malware Config
Extracted
-
ps1
-
exe.dropper
https://ncore.logicmeow.co.uk/ncore-launcher-windows-x64-package.zip
Extracted
-
ps1
-
exe.dropper
https://ncore.logicmeow.co.uk/ncore-launcher-windows-x64-package.zip
Signatures
- Badlisted process makes network request 5 IoCs
Network request originating from process or tool commonly abused by malware.
flow pid Process 2 4940 powershell.exe 3 5264 powershell.exe 5 5264 powershell.exe 6 5264 powershell.exe 8 5264 powershell.exe - Loads dropped DLL 4 IoCs
pid Process 2724 nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe 2724 nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe 2724 nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe 2724 nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe -
pid Process 4940 powershell.exe 5264 powershell.exe - 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.
description ioc Process Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language powershell.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language powershell.exe - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs
pid Process 4940 powershell.exe 4940 powershell.exe 5264 powershell.exe 5264 powershell.exe - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
description pid Process Token: SeDebugPrivilege 4940 powershell.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 5264 powershell.exe - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
description pid Process procid_target PID 2724 wrote to memory of 4940 2724 nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe 88 PID 2724 wrote to memory of 5264 2724 nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe 90
Processes
-
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nCoreLauncher-Setup.exe"1⤵
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2724 -
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ncore-dl.ps1"2⤵
- Badlisted process makes network request
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:4940
-
-
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ncore-dl.ps1"2⤵
- Badlisted process makes network request
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:5264
-
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Replay Monitor
Loading Replay Monitor...
Downloads
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
- Size 19KB
- SHA256 798e4ecc38caa198bc7df2497bf2f9f1949ee1aebe53003b9364f176213ce179
- MD5 f40c2493fe5148009146faeaa88d3d80
- SHA1 27c839608b6bf4fb2ffac5866daa116b33252546
- SHA512 799d3fa992d195e2aea1f1be76e317686f1993d8a63fda849850caae4436ac330b23492d8367b557896ec4cc92a6aea0e7125a77b3c858125a2aefd1394e4d65
- SSDEEP 384:k1TBaGV1i9GW14bQDgExh001+ge/rr2Pn5IAyF45eOuoLlxaipxTvybhNcQYFAf/:wTnfpWikUExhj+d6RIAqCeR0L/+bhNxB
- TLSH T115929668213F6DC7D8D2227050D602F7FBE4D049DA755198FE2BCE2F5C90EBA4EA1620
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ncore-dl.ps1
- Size 288B
- SHA256 9903532bcba0f182e7eb73cc2dcbeda545a9057ea9f66485fd7c0fd25b7241ee
- MD5 dfdc8e2e6680bba313d6838919963b66
- SHA1 0e1fd175965b9f41bc8cf98f9844e450a8f61b62
- SHA512 3229ef253944c79ec597bdd0b57878f106936cd6921c783ce52b304d052fd8963e124b380ba0c3e62633319ada982458e6369792cca30e8b6a72c6b0b7cf8cf4
- TLSH T15AD0EB21229FE2E32F0024878197E709E20611383920CE30FE398812B0CA80BF98702B
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ncore-dl.ps1
- Size 278B
- SHA256 82c3831e55c1086115c2ca9a93c4eec1cc3b66d7cf950ebaff565a4ff2ecf314
- MD5 24596d00736e365e382ee69fd9780ce4
- SHA1 ea3a699182ab39bef2edf43ebd4f6c347c8964a3
- SHA512 5b9611855bb02a63fb660c0e84eac0bb9bc8cdf1b4fe919660ca31ae5e3aca42281841f9de082c58a64e36edb3f3605f9c4cb0ff5d1d8c3b97a03a84dfd94708
- TLSH T1F6D0EB07969FA3A02E0420C3605BA708A1AA013714469A20ABB48C1970D286DFEC7126
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsn1833.tmp\NSISdl.dll
- Size 15KB
- SHA256 32e35e4b97f8df08f07d8879ba2ec963c75707440cfc0275e944a31c946f633f
- MD5 58696f9e1a48139fb1b0ed289a88f386
- SHA1 71ed08169cf00dd00d41d41395fd982ff8e8c5fd
- SHA512 3feac3983c39194d9101c803d69c395c33d8757e6ab746447f0f22ee9d0d8f790bb4f0c6c9f4fe7fae66cd6119c2b456c02ab051ffb62af4d010387998760d33
- SSDEEP 384:3rSQMCOUILnCaSPy/yhJzmGSMRWyOUKiR:3rSQMCOp0yamMRWysiR
- TLSH T15C623C16B62084F5CBB2167034D73B3E6BB28F6A1A2848C24BF35C4E9E52307B675D85
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsn1833.tmp\System.dll
- Size 12KB
- SHA256 996645d7f16a6294babb6da83478062aed7b72318d7a51b66e90ab5d3edc51a5
- MD5 6d08f0d5503bb100b8429fefaad163a6
- SHA1 2a79aac2d3b715326c3dcd3c5cf2e33de3632a0a
- SHA512 e259b1aff39c533e3e31cf4eb323c8eb22b2beeb5d8ce2c929de30702a6d8ab8076aeacc983d724b05d7d99a6de8c4d239bd159642c7e75fb86faef683360a1f
- SSDEEP 192:cjHcQ0qWTlt7wi5Aj/lM0sEWD/wtYbBjpNQybC7y+XZr0QPi:s/Qlt7wiij/lMRv/9V4brr
- TLSH T1A9427C1297B089F2F151093819667F2A6FBEAC5C23F405A3CFE304C63D212CB9879243
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsn1833.tmp\nsDialogs.dll
- Size 9KB
- SHA256 715a9b58de0995d1a08384c522ad9af210e2791aaf8e87a6c07bfe72ebfd2cb5
- MD5 cf0351a2ab9128838be6b54cea8238d3
- SHA1 c3b1abb890d92a6058de7c3ac2b2185b2f4fd03c
- SHA512 f1a68557d3825ca879f66c1b6828342528e41b8c746d137c51b85e8f8341dcf69bffc5bab76a498113cb53de3f4502644de8a26adaa27c22fa005ee7186f7785
- SSDEEP 96:oXEv02zUu56FcS817eTaXx85qHFcUcxSgB5PKtAtoniJninnt3DVEB3Y8NqkzfFc:oXEvCu5e81785qHFcU0PuAw0uyWIFc
- TLSH T16012F892E2A454B3C5D6523B35AA2F2DCBBD5329B0927C01C7738E4D39395766E38343
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsn1833.tmp\nsExec.dll
- Size 7KB
- SHA256 3a101fa91d4e8831dfb748a1e345ab74fd4a551e64254710bdf53972ba9b473c
- MD5 c953dd0aab774f1446fcd63fa7c5f613
- SHA1 6b7e1ef30b3ce2b353d310a8c99111c01e1f752e
- SHA512 7fdfc451ada1789ad44a33fee7a97acf9f482ae58b5207564ce8ac90fbc8b0fc891bc02d8c1d9a1d0d3fb77954106115582080e129bb93634a2cb16777201e14
- SSDEEP 96:JbzdzBzMDhOZZDbXf5GsWvSv1ckne94SDbYkvML1HT1fUNQaSGYuHwDQ:JEQHDb2vSuOc41ZfUNQZGdHo
- TLSH T15EE1093571C02DF7D08D897438167D2F83F4D52627BA05A046771AD579D0AF6EE28B42
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH