Analysis

  • max time kernel
    599s
  • max time network
    538s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    23/07/2026, 15:24

General

  • Target
    $R0/Uninstall sklauncher.exe
  • Size 248KB
  • Sample260723-stdqxssamf
  • SHA256 2e8fc0d22f29cf1ad7bd9ee207a31afd6fbe6e271254bc6515a00520827e2c5e
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 13 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Using powershell.exe command.

  • Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Command interpreters often include specific commands/flags that ignore errors and other hangups.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

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

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

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 24 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\Uninstall sklauncher.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\Uninstall sklauncher.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1184
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe" _?=C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5416
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -C "if (Get-Command Get-CimInstance -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { exit 0 } else { exit 1 }"
        3⤵
        • Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:6116
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -C "if ((Get-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process) -eq 'Restricted') { exit 1 } else { exit 0 }"
        3⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:5844
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -C "if ((Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Process | ? {$_.Path -and $_.Path.StartsWith('C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\sklauncher', 'CurrentCultureIgnoreCase')}).Count -gt 0) { exit 0 } else { exit 1 }"
        3⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:468
  • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k GPSvcGroup
    1⤵
      PID:252

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 17KB
          • SHA256 680d89c879a30ceb14e261031f5d12be2e7bd7d1962c5308565bd2d0d9ce624a
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 16KB
          • SHA256 92e39fafbd171c3417ce902dbccb7d83c529dd0063e36194f9cb8e4d4247c05b
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          __PSScriptPolicyTest_0vu5v4nj.jet.ps1

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_0vu5v4nj.jet.ps1
          • Size 60B
          • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StdUtils.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx169C.tmp\StdUtils.dll
          • Size 100KB
          • SHA256 b72e9013a6204e9f01076dc38dabbf30870d44dfc66962adbf73619d4331601e
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          System.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx169C.tmp\System.dll
          • Size 12KB
          • SHA256 3eb38ae99653a7dbc724132ee240f6e5c4af4bfe7c01d31d23faf373f9f2eaca
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          UAC.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx169C.tmp\UAC.dll
          • Size 14KB
          • SHA256 2f7f8fc05dc4fd0d5cda501b47e4433357e887bbfed7292c028d99c73b52dc08
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          WinShell.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx169C.tmp\WinShell.dll
          • Size 3KB
          • SHA256 9be85b986ea66a6997dde658abe82b3147ed2a1a3dcb784bb5176f41d22815a6
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          modern-wizard.bmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx169C.tmp\modern-wizard.bmp
          • Size 150KB
          • SHA256 8c8ed638b6edf6ea3ed2ed351f0485cbdb8951462e0f4ed1df0d5cb3996ce3ca
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          nsDialogs.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx169C.tmp\nsDialogs.dll
          • Size 9KB
          • SHA256 1e40211af65923c2f4fd02ce021458a7745d28e2f383835e3015e96575632172
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          nsExec.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsx169C.tmp\nsExec.dll
          • Size 6KB
          • SHA256 5d9ceb1ce5f35aea5f9e5a0c0edeeec04dfefe0c77890c80c70e98209b58b962
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Un_A.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe
          • Size 248KB
          • SHA256 2e8fc0d22f29cf1ad7bd9ee207a31afd6fbe6e271254bc6515a00520827e2c5e
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/468-82-0x000000006F8A0000-0x000000006FBFB000-memory.dmp

          memory/468-79-0x000000006F740000-0x000000006F78C000-memory.dmp

          memory/5844-69-0x0000000007220000-0x00000000072B6000-memory.dmp

          memory/5844-66-0x000000006F740000-0x000000006F78C000-memory.dmp

          memory/5844-70-0x0000000007180000-0x0000000007191000-memory.dmp

          memory/5844-64-0x00000000056A0000-0x00000000059FB000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-45-0x000000006F740000-0x000000006F78C000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-43-0x0000000006A40000-0x0000000006A8C000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-48-0x0000000006FE0000-0x0000000007000000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-49-0x0000000007CC0000-0x0000000007D63000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-50-0x00000000083F0000-0x0000000008A6C000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-51-0x0000000007D70000-0x0000000007D8A000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-52-0x0000000007DE0000-0x0000000007DEA000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-53-0x0000000007F80000-0x0000000007FAA000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-54-0x0000000007FB0000-0x0000000007FD4000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-55-0x000000006F8A0000-0x000000006FBFB000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-57-0x0000000072D80000-0x000000007353C000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-44-0x00000000079B0000-0x00000000079E6000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-42-0x00000000069F0000-0x0000000006A0E000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-41-0x0000000006540000-0x000000000689B000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-38-0x00000000064D0000-0x0000000006536000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-37-0x0000000006460000-0x00000000064C6000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-36-0x00000000063C0000-0x00000000063E2000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-35-0x0000000072D80000-0x000000007353C000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-34-0x0000000005D40000-0x000000000638A000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-33-0x0000000072D80000-0x000000007353C000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-32-0x00000000031B0000-0x00000000031E6000-memory.dmp

          memory/6116-31-0x0000000072D92000-0x0000000072D93000-memory.dmp