Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
151s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
27/07/2026, 12:29
General
- Target out/vlc.exe
- Size 943KB
- Sample260727-ppb5rasxax
- SHA256 2727f2739579932c4319feb3e484cb9be3b0e0d0ca36ab773ea19ead06c8db3a
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 2 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Executes a command shell one-liner 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Execution of a cmd.exe one-liner (/c "close" or /k "keep") is a common script/loader stage.
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 3 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\out\vlc.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\out\vlc.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Public\1.bat" "2⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\ProgramData\vlc\vlc.exe"C:\ProgramData\vlc\vlc.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\ProgramData\vlc\vlc.exe"C:\ProgramData\vlc\vlc.exe" -i1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
libvlc.dll
vlc
vlc.exe
1.bat
memory/2096-33-0x0000000002340000-0x0000000002640000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-41-0x0000000073660000-0x000000007366B000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-31-0x0000000002340000-0x0000000002640000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-57-0x0000000002340000-0x0000000002640000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-49-0x0000000002340000-0x0000000002640000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-42-0x0000000002340000-0x0000000002640000-memory.dmp
memory/2096-40-0x0000000000200000-0x00000000002F2000-memory.dmp
memory/3212-25-0x0000000000B60000-0x0000000000C52000-memory.dmp
memory/3212-26-0x00000000750B0000-0x00000000750BB000-memory.dmp
memory/3212-0-0x0000000002B50000-0x0000000002E50000-memory.dmp
memory/3212-28-0x0000000002B50000-0x0000000002E50000-memory.dmp
memory/3408-39-0x0000000073660000-0x000000007366B000-memory.dmp
memory/3408-38-0x0000000000200000-0x00000000002F2000-memory.dmp
memory/3408-27-0x0000000002C50000-0x0000000002F50000-memory.dmp
memory/3408-58-0x0000000000200000-0x00000000002F2000-memory.dmp
memory/3408-60-0x0000000002C50000-0x0000000002F50000-memory.dmp
memory/3408-59-0x0000000073660000-0x000000007366B000-memory.dmp