Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    151s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20260513-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260513-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    06/07/2026, 23:30

General

  • Target
    file.exe
  • Size 11KB
  • Sample260706-3hlbqsdt4t
  • SHA256 ca9c127d65c5e9839cf02053e8dffb3869f086bd606badbfbf866e348db12612
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • phorphiex

C2
  • http://91.92.242.107/lmix/

  • http://178.16.55.240/nmixx/

  • http://178.16.55.240/nmix/

  • http://178.16.55.240/

  • http://130.12.180.190/us/

  • http://130.12.180.190/xxx/

Mutex
  • aefaeffea

Attributes
  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/202.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36

Extracted

Family
  • needle_stealer

C2
  • http://130.12.180.135:3000/api/v2

Attributes
  • api_key

    alk_2f668968ee87e7d30f8b996112bebef880cfe8626af9c1d8d53e0f719e47be4f

  • base_extension

    false

  • self_destruct

    false

Signatures

  • Family: NeedleStealer

    NeedleStealer is a modular stealer written in Golang.

  • Family: Phorphiex, Phorpiex

    Phorphiex or Phorpiex Malware family which infects systems to distribute other malicious payloads such as ransomware, stealers and cryptominers.

  • Family: xmrig

    XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

  • Detects NeedleStealer payload 1 IoCs
  • XMRig Miner payload 16 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file 8 IoCs
  • Creates new service(s) 2 TTPs
  • Executes dropped EXE 10 IoCs
  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 3 TTPs

    Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.

  • Stops running service(s) 4 TTPs
  • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
  • Launches sc.exe 4 IoCs

    Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 8 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • GoLang User-Agent 1 IoCs

    Uses default user-agent string defined by GoLang HTTP packages.

  • Kills process with taskkill 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 21 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 24 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe"
    1⤵
    • Downloads MZ/PE file
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3916
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1017828132.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1017828132.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3144
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2814239258.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2814239258.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3100
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1612016950.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1612016950.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4392
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3686527409.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3686527409.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:1684
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1670937817.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1670937817.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:2152
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1543515512.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1543515512.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3200
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3618025971.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3618025971.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:868
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1602336379.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1602336379.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      PID:4964
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe delete "winmgr"
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:1676
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe create "winmgr" binpath= "C:\ProgramData\winmgr\syswinprdrvc.exe" start= "auto"
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:4940
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe stop eventlog
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:3668
      • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe start "winmgr"
        3⤵
        • Launches sc.exe
        PID:3920
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2629317542.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2629317542.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1976
      • C:\Windows\system32\taskkill.exe
        taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T
        3⤵
        • Kills process with taskkill
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:1244
      • C:\Windows\system32\taskkill.exe
        taskkill /F /IM msedge.exe /T
        3⤵
        • Kills process with taskkill
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:3732
      • C:\Windows\system32\taskkill.exe
        taskkill /F /IM msedgewebview2.exe /T
        3⤵
        • Kills process with taskkill
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:4880
  • C:\ProgramData\winmgr\syswinprdrvc.exe
    C:\ProgramData\winmgr\syswinprdrvc.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4740
    • C:\Windows\system32\dwm.exe
      dwm.exe
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3120

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        1017828132.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1017828132.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 f70b6a0341300dbb1fcad771e03a62544a9bb00abc14161cdcfb68b4022abdf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        1543515512.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1543515512.exe
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 f3121b85cca17df3fe49fe45f70a3afbdf7861bcb5057a46bc8f79e6475795e2
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        1602336379.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1602336379.exe
        • Size 6.8MB
        • SHA256 9639f7ebc6a6d69d7bf5b8bc869e7783a1406088f192868624ad8919e9bfd1d4
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        1612016950.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1612016950.exe
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 ac39d18b75cecb1c62e4b70e3343bc8b8fc2b69b10e6c7d4ab3340031073804c
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        1670937817.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1670937817.exe
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 94c0b9560299cbe10c23b062f08849ac03e2bed78a71581e3adf5ddc015ca615
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        2629317542.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2629317542.exe
        • Size 8.3MB
        • SHA256 1b963ea63828c83ff15a12fe84ff83ab970e02bcfb9996e5835052e9537224c3
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        2814239258.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2814239258.exe
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 3b2466d82fa7901766556b9f64fc16440477a2791fb9df01ee9d9c7c4b016c06
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        3618025971.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3618025971.exe
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 2012c7af2da6b649bc2bb58f54837b200cafecc44ceda8d5e2e43b0ea205ac97
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        3686527409.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3686527409.exe
        • Size 15KB
        • SHA256 5ad4fbf16c18e012d7a5f98b4900b45531e134ccbaf2a21d0b40d9066550f92b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/3120-49-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-57-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-50-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-51-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-48-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-47-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-54-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-53-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-58-0x0000025B85B20000-0x0000025B85B40000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-52-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-61-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-46-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-63-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-62-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-60-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-59-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-68-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp

        memory/3120-69-0x0000000140000000-0x000000014082E000-memory.dmp