Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    154s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    20/07/2026, 19:08

General

  • Target
    ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe
  • Size 12.2MB
  • Sample260720-xtltraes2x
  • SHA256 70f4fb4acd7cf0efb8151c237b85271adf17722fff2f6e24924b41efe7453547
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Badlisted process makes network request 5 IoCs

    Network request originating from process or tool commonly abused by malware.

  • Sets service image path in registry 3 TTPs 1 IoCs

    This determines the executable launched when a service starts. It can be used to establish persistence.

  • ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote access tool

    ConnectWise ScreenConnect is a remote desktop tool that can be used as a backdoor.

  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 46 IoCs

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

  • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Authentication Package 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Suspicious Windows Authentication Registry Modification.

  • Drops file in System32 directory 9 IoCs
  • Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking 1 TTPs

    Adversaries may establish persistence by executing malicious content triggered by hijacked references to Component Object Model (COM) objects.

  • Drops file in Program Files directory 16 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 17 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 42 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 9 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 5 IoCs

    SCSI information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 13 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 37 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 7 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 10 IoCs
  • 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\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1188
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe" /i "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect\26.4.3.9662\49ccb691abf6cec3\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi" SC_EXE_PATH="C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe"
      2⤵
      • Badlisted process makes network request
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
      PID:4588
  • C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /V
    1⤵
    • Badlisted process makes network request
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Authentication Package
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Drops file in Windows directory
    • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1964
    • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
      C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding B2C96DB70AEE7FE93684879CF7D6B809 C
      2⤵
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:944
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
        rundll32.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI92C0.tmp",zzzzInvokeManagedCustomActionOutOfProc SfxCA_240751453 1 ScreenConnect.InstallerActions!ScreenConnect.ClientInstallerActions.FixupServiceArguments
        3⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:5244
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
        rundll32.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI95CF.tmp",zzzzInvokeManagedCustomActionOutOfProc SfxCA_240752093 11 ScreenConnect.InstallerActions!ScreenConnect.ClientInstallerActions.CheckMsiMotw
        3⤵
        • Badlisted process makes network request
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:1452
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
        rundll32.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI9C77.tmp",zzzzInvokeManagedCustomActionOutOfProc SfxCA_240754031 18 ScreenConnect.InstallerActions!ScreenConnect.ClientInstallerActions.CheckMsiFileName
        3⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:4340
    • C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe ExecuteScopeRestorePoint /WaitForRestorePoint:2
      2⤵
        PID:2936
      • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
        C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding 18B6C679F2149C34D76520EE977EE6F2
        2⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
        PID:4716
      • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
        C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding 567EECB0402736C816029B47165C2064 E Global\MSI0000
        2⤵
        • Drops file in Windows directory
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
        PID:4604
    • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      1⤵
      • Checks SCSI registry key(s)
      PID:5116
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe
      "C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe" "?e=Access&y=Guest&h=instance-l1oqw1-relay.screenconnect.com&p=443&s=2186b394-ec48-46d7-aeca-469bb74ee162&k=BgIAAACkAABSU0ExAAgAAAEAAQAZT7Dovrq91Dyu6XT6XJ0k6mtvv1%2fNVqcsMKaYDKlsKJgt%2fnJQ0URgsejDEM77WupX1gUWDsTb4%2b55FIheWRarTrFnDbNJNprLuvnWOviIredL1ADDUoopCLNFDygWT%2fmJIjg%2b6%2fNjSEKEgLVBwyyHOYfgIl8%2bdDA0zkrGI4TFNtJg8MSfbJl7pOlh6YmkLulXewpMdxbpyDh%2bz5xBZlbsCtDCBlerehdZwb%2bQNuX8VNxeQZT1GzLJsbO9jaVaoF7fyFLzuHQU7mtXXQWSIg4sDCD5LPS1tzbzzJSXRwrKHJcU2ftl7QvtmXBUxe%2b7KvzL6l9nObTTFZ3ggvi28sjU&c=&c=0471&c=&c=&c=&c=&c=&c="
      1⤵
      • Sets service image path in registry
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5280
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe
        "C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe" "RunRole" "5580bc34-c088-452b-9915-b8905e08e708" "User"
        2⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
        • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
        PID:3136
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe
        "C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe" "RunRole" "8a72ef2d-0f00-48b9-a6d6-9161620b5328" "System"
        2⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Checks processor information in registry
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:4484

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          e59de22.rbs

          • Path C:\Config.Msi\e59de22.rbs
          • Size 214KB
          • SHA256 cea419222254a499606f65cd328cad583d03338bd5a715c5589739e7ecb9328c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Client.en-US.resources

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\Client.en-US.resources
          • Size 64KB
          • SHA256 a90983b3d26f9e6bb472663b84d13254349f62b0ad4c667fd76b3edd270240b2
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Client.resources

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\Client.resources
          • Size 6KB
          • SHA256 bd34378ad99f7609fa0c7c8edde6337c738a61d288863015629329806a1cc728
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Client.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.Client.dll
          • Size 412KB
          • SHA256 4010ea184982e71ad71e76b43266488c954f665324b89ef042cea9e463a60c9d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientService.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.dll
          • Size 91KB
          • SHA256 6e6aa42b107d3e82b7b7dc18a75eee3f09e9f268788c0a7edbbc617152adf178
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe
          • Size 93KB
          • SHA256 a94ecccb5b88e3860d619fbb3b87ff4af6448240ab65b89d610f348d75e793f2
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Core.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.Core.dll
          • Size 577KB
          • SHA256 eedbd9ba4755f238af397c71b575082e18a31eabacc22abb4949f92fe991e169
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Windows.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.Windows.dll
          • Size 1.7MB
          • SHA256 305663a05c77c8058569a976db740aa2f20b66583f0381059633b628376570fc
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsAuthenticationPackage.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.WindowsAuthenticationPackage.dll
          • Size 254KB
          • SHA256 a5b8f0070201e4f26260af6a25941ea38bd7042aefd48cd68b9acf951fa99ee5
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe
          • Size 676KB
          • SHA256 f49ca44ae19ec33053d76aeca7136193095b6583888a0be063b8120c3c9226c7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsCredentialProvider.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\ScreenConnect.WindowsCredentialProvider.dll
          • Size 837KB
          • SHA256 ce75ee1188726b49d46477166faac6f8715ca1aa4afc5b8a687fcbfcd541c0c2
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          system.config

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\system.config
          • Size 964B
          • SHA256 18315b539d7025b8646810dfd90cd407565855c42bacecda652cc9292e39b287
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache\MetaData\57C8EDB95DF3F0AD4EE2DC2B8CFD4157
          • Size 342B
          • SHA256 0db068a39fb09b35671dc1e8605441a109e548f2eb1db66a0baa42833f62dbd5
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          MSI92C0.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI92C0.tmp
          • Size 1.1MB
          • SHA256 18bacfd2a7c95800b6279cb8731bf03c8bbb526f5bc3790254a8e06d7ceee8ad
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI92C0.tmp-\Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll
          • Size 172KB
          • SHA256 3e54286e348ebd3d70eaed8174cca500455c3e098cdd1fccb167bc43d93db29d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Core.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI92C0.tmp-\ScreenConnect.Core.dll
          • Size 567KB
          • SHA256 15fec18d3a8990cdb540897ede61227353165668048c001164fcd22233cc8390
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.InstallerActions.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI92C0.tmp-\ScreenConnect.InstallerActions.dll
          • Size 24KB
          • SHA256 c1142cc3ae09a7d3b5392539c29cbeb585543a38c93e37e55d82cbe0bb56d588
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Windows.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI92C0.tmp-\ScreenConnect.Windows.dll
          • Size 1.7MB
          • SHA256 ae3005e1ca932eccde09c479fde2ecf8ea2feeb908dec4f0c830eab671276454
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          CustomAction.config

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI95CF.tmp-\CustomAction.config
          • Size 234B
          • SHA256 7027b69ab6ebc9f3f7d2f6c800793fde2a057b76010d8cfd831cf440371b2b23
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsInstaller.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI95CF.tmp-\ScreenConnect.WindowsInstaller.dll
          • Size 137KB
          • SHA256 7c27380976a5befc5a947e129eb464123f46d06cf0eb7f984ced921f36e1d0e7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect\26.4.3.9662\49ccb691abf6cec3\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi
          • Size 9.8MB
          • SHA256 9a340cd931068ea6554a9433054c98e80b8002abaff8ae9247a4451777182bbe
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          MSI1C73.tmp

          • Path C:\Windows\Installer\MSI1C73.tmp
          • Size 202KB
          • SHA256 3cff4ac91288a0ff0c13278e73b282a64e83d089c5a61a45d483194ab336b852
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          mfogn1re.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\mfogn1re.newcfg
          • Size 882B
          • SHA256 1e2ab51b70c0c73710815bff6d3493d30f0f3a9ee7c656a42df9935641bdc0a6
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          s5jzfkz3.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\s5jzfkz3.newcfg
          • Size 683B
          • SHA256 7e1310dc8f0f2780c8d7c1053c6b7d3bf2d390bdaaf71848fe4dda0cfbc7bd7e
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          user.config

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (49ccb691abf6cec3)\user.config
          • Size 520B
          • SHA256 a81834b77f5853f2e00d54bdb8ae5f2fb43d86d95b12bd8a0980d892a71e0cb1
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          metadata-2

          • Path \??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2\System Volume Information\SPP\metadata-2
          • Size 26.1MB
          • SHA256 47aa833bd495c7b452097fad9280453a05072feea2d5b315f523fdf88bca2ccb
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          {950ceab0-32aa-477c-866b-981abfa33921}_OnDiskSnapshotProp

          • Path \??\Volume{c61fa831-0000-0000-0000-d08302000000}\System Volume Information\SPP\OnlineMetadataCache\{950ceab0-32aa-477c-866b-981abfa33921}_OnDiskSnapshotProp
          • Size 6KB
          • SHA256 14b63130de5bc103ba132875a2bb58df994cdc8d0dcbf062fa8e213432e4f3e7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/1188-2-0x00000000032B0000-0x00000000032BC000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-3-0x0000000074AD0000-0x000000007528C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-12-0x0000000074AD0000-0x000000007528C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-11-0x0000000074AD0000-0x000000007528C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-6-0x00000000059A0000-0x0000000005B50000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-9-0x0000000074AD0000-0x000000007528C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-8-0x0000000006110000-0x00000000066CA000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-0-0x0000000074AE2000-0x0000000074AE3000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-1-0x0000000003290000-0x0000000003298000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-7-0x0000000074AD0000-0x000000007528C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-5-0x00000000034B0000-0x00000000034D8000-memory.dmp

          memory/1188-4-0x00000000058A0000-0x0000000005934000-memory.dmp

          memory/1452-75-0x0000000003340000-0x0000000003368000-memory.dmp

          memory/1964-230-0x000001DDD2500000-0x000001DDD2EA4000-memory.dmp

          memory/3136-213-0x0000000000D20000-0x0000000000DCE000-memory.dmp

          memory/3136-223-0x000000001BE90000-0x000000001BF24000-memory.dmp

          memory/3136-224-0x000000001C0E0000-0x000000001C290000-memory.dmp

          memory/3136-214-0x0000000002E80000-0x0000000002EEC000-memory.dmp

          memory/3136-228-0x0000000002EF0000-0x0000000002F31000-memory.dmp

          memory/3136-226-0x0000000001650000-0x000000000166A000-memory.dmp

          memory/3136-227-0x000000001C420000-0x000000001C5A8000-memory.dmp

          memory/4484-229-0x00000000026A0000-0x00000000026E1000-memory.dmp

          memory/5244-33-0x0000000002CC0000-0x0000000002CEE000-memory.dmp

          memory/5244-45-0x0000000005E90000-0x0000000006040000-memory.dmp

          memory/5244-41-0x0000000003BB0000-0x0000000003C44000-memory.dmp

          memory/5244-37-0x0000000002D00000-0x0000000002D0C000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-200-0x0000000003EF0000-0x0000000003F82000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-204-0x00000000040E0000-0x00000000041B6000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-202-0x0000000003B40000-0x0000000003B81000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-199-0x0000000003BB0000-0x0000000003C1C000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-180-0x0000000003AF0000-0x0000000003B40000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-167-0x0000000003CA0000-0x0000000003E50000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-163-0x0000000003A50000-0x0000000003AE4000-memory.dmp

          memory/5280-157-0x0000000001570000-0x000000000158A000-memory.dmp