Analysis

  • user interaction
    yes
  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    138s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260710-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260710-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    31/07/2026, 13:26

General

  • Target
    MandalaMEMZ.exe
  • Size 99.8MB
  • Sample260731-qpxbcsvsez
  • SHA256 280c533bb161780a0297fee751244eb8322f76a3d03249e5ce1b5e4b1dc928d3
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Modifies Windows Defender DisableAntiSpyware settings 3 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • UAC bypass 3 TTPs 2 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 33 IoCs
  • Checks whether UAC is enabled 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Executes a command shell one-liner 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Execution of a cmd.exe one-liner (/c "close" or /k "keep") is a common script/loader stage.

  • Kills process with taskkill 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
  • System policy modification 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MandalaMEMZ.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MandalaMEMZ.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3248
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MandalaMEMZ.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MandalaMEMZ.exe"
      2⤵
      • Modifies Windows Defender DisableAntiSpyware settings
      • UAC bypass
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • Checks whether UAC is enabled
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      • System policy modification
      PID:3748
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "ver"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:4836
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c taskkill /F /IM MsMpEng.exe 2>nul
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2752
        • C:\Windows\system32\taskkill.exe
          taskkill /F /IM MsMpEng.exe
          4⤵
          • Kills process with taskkill
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:3124

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        _imaging.cp311-win_amd64.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PIL\_imaging.cp311-win_amd64.pyd
        • Size 2.5MB
        • SHA256 16452bdc0cd84bbc8e034319e67f776ddc9d23767e6c589d89a5c973738d5fb4
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _imagingft.cp311-win_amd64.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PIL\_imagingft.cp311-win_amd64.pyd
        • Size 2.1MB
        • SHA256 64c12405543e6e531af2e63773b42ee3a1265b5c1a071d6c45d95ab4af931867
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        MSVCP140.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PyQt5\Qt5\bin\MSVCP140.dll
        • Size 576KB
        • SHA256 88f55d86b50b0a7e55e71ad2d8f7552146ba26e927230daf2e26ad3a971973c5
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        MSVCP140_1.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PyQt5\Qt5\bin\MSVCP140_1.dll
        • Size 30KB
        • SHA256 446c48c1224c289bd3080087fe15d6759416d64f4136addf30086abd5415d83f
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Qt5Core.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PyQt5\Qt5\bin\Qt5Core.dll
        • Size 5.7MB
        • SHA256 8d2ff4ce9096ddccc4f4cd62c2e41fc854cfd1b0d6e8d296645a7f5fd4ae565a
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        VCRUNTIME140_1.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PyQt5\Qt5\bin\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll
        • Size 43KB
        • SHA256 1f0f5f2ce671e0f68cf96176721df0e5e6f527c8ca9cfa98aa875b5a3816d460
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        QtCore.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PyQt5\QtCore.pyd
        • Size 2.4MB
        • SHA256 d6e45fd8c3b3f93f52c4d1b6f9e3ee220454a73f80f65f3d70504bd55415ea37
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        sip.cp311-win_amd64.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\PyQt5\sip.cp311-win_amd64.pyd
        • Size 120KB
        • SHA256 406953b36fb04046c8d476d85a33a8829bb62e37804b08f0cf36f6c5529a904c
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        VCRUNTIME140.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\VCRUNTIME140.dll
        • Size 106KB
        • SHA256 69320f278d90efaaeb67e2a1b55e5b0543883125834c812c8d9c39676e0494fc
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        VCRUNTIME140_1.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\VCRUNTIME140_1.dll
        • Size 48KB
        • SHA256 6fd366a691ed68430bcd0a3de3d8d19a0cb2102952bfc140bbef4354ed082c47
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _asyncio.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_asyncio.pyd
        • Size 63KB
        • SHA256 d1fb700f280e7793e9b0dca33310ef9cd08e9e0ec4f7416854dffaf6f658a394
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _bz2.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_bz2.pyd
        • Size 82KB
        • SHA256 ec91e2b4baca31b992d016b84b70f110ce2b1b2dfd54f5e5bef6270ed7d13b85
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _ctypes.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_ctypes.pyd
        • Size 120KB
        • SHA256 f07fe92ce85f7786f96a4d59c6ee5c05fe1db63a1889ba40a67e37069639b656
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _decimal.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_decimal.pyd
        • Size 247KB
        • SHA256 0f9c6cc463611a9b2c692382fe1cdd7a52fea4733ffaf645d433f716f8bbd725
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _elementtree.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_elementtree.pyd
        • Size 125KB
        • SHA256 2ebb2bc6ce26d25bc2ad471f9d7edc4684064afa606f046ebf0a39c75031cb53
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _hashlib.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_hashlib.pyd
        • Size 63KB
        • SHA256 6f7742dfdd371c39048d775f37df3bc2d8d4316c9008e62347b337d64ebed327
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _lzma.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_lzma.pyd
        • Size 155KB
        • SHA256 7158c1290ac29169160b3ec94d9c8bcde4012d67a555f325d44b418c54e2cc28
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _multiprocessing.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_multiprocessing.pyd
        • Size 33KB
        • SHA256 1d6f1e7e9f55918967a37cbd744886c2b7ee193c5fb8f948132ba40b17119a81
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _overlapped.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_overlapped.pyd
        • Size 49KB
        • SHA256 cb68e10748e2efd86f7495d647a2774cea9f97ad5c6fe179f90dc1c467b9280f
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _queue.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_queue.pyd
        • Size 31KB
        • SHA256 4e5b7c653c1b3dc3fd7519e4f39cc8a2fb2746e0ecdc4e433fe6029f5f4d9065
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _socket.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_socket.pyd
        • Size 77KB
        • SHA256 d03fa645cde89b4b01f4a2577139fbb7e1392cb91dc26213b3b76419110d8e49
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _ssl.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_ssl.pyd
        • Size 172KB
        • SHA256 79d861f0670828dee06c2e3523e2f9a2a90d6c6996bde38201425aa4003119f1
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        cp1252.enc

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_tcl_data\encoding\cp1252.enc
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 741859cf238c3a63bbb20ec6ed51e46451372bb221cfff438297d261d0561c2e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        _tkinter.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\_tkinter.pyd
        • Size 62KB
        • SHA256 8e4cab61b3838f9545b5d1e0b287f18c22d360b8e6a8daca4178cc69df78f83d
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        ada92cb5d92a588d1b93__mypyc.cp311-win_amd64.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\ada92cb5d92a588d1b93__mypyc.cp311-win_amd64.pyd
        • Size 216KB
        • SHA256 fc17eb621ecf2325e3c2d7501d3ee2c3848e3c7fec7027fda7c7fa1782874743
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        base_library.zip

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\base_library.zip
        • Size 1.4MB
        • SHA256 3cd068bb8c2a668d095eb94284c8a8a924f1a1319afa5622ef8cd23e94b4ddc3
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        __init__.py

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\cv2\__init__.py
        • Size 6KB
        • SHA256 674817e87409bc589608ef9f4dd4c1a49f600b5e85ca8b106b3b0a9eab5c46cc
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        libcrypto-3.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\libcrypto-3.dll
        • Size 4.9MB
        • SHA256 8e13b53ee25825b97f191d77b51ed03966f8b435773fa3fbc36f3eb668fc569b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        libffi-8.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\libffi-8.dll
        • Size 38KB
        • SHA256 eff52743773eb550fcc6ce3efc37c85724502233b6b002a35496d828bd7b280a
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        libssl-3.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\libssl-3.dll
        • Size 771KB
        • SHA256 b21309abd3dbbb1bf8fb6aa3c250fc85d7b0d9984bf4c942d1d4421502f31a10
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        msvcp140-a4c2229bdc2a2a630acdc095b4d86008.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\numpy.libs\msvcp140-a4c2229bdc2a2a630acdc095b4d86008.dll
        • Size 561KB
        • SHA256 a4c2229bdc2a2a630acdc095b4d86008e5c3e3bc7773174354f3da4f5beb9cde
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        _multiarray_umath.cp311-win_amd64.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\numpy\_core\_multiarray_umath.cp311-win_amd64.pyd
        • Size 3.5MB
        • SHA256 4fb4c5d62a6bd766eea716350eaf5396580e33cf7dc159e305488d1b7d72dad2
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        pyexpat.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\pyexpat.pyd
        • Size 194KB
        • SHA256 91fe5b1b2de2847946e5b3f060678971d8127dfd7d2d37603fdcd31bd5c71197
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        python3.DLL

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\python3.DLL
        • Size 65KB
        • SHA256 803ba8242b409080df166320c05a4402aab6dd30e31c4389871f4b68ca1ad423
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        python311.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\python311.dll
        • Size 5.5MB
        • SHA256 de1b95d2e951fc048c84684bc7df4346138910544ee335b61fc8e65f360c3837
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        select.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\select.pyd
        • Size 29KB
        • SHA256 e24a3e7885df9a18c29ba058c49c3adcf59e4b58107847b98eca365b6d94f279
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        tcl86t.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\tcl86t.dll
        • Size 1.8MB
        • SHA256 a91781fe13548b89817462b00058a75fb0b607ec8ce99d265719ced573ade7b6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        tk86t.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\tk86t.dll
        • Size 1.5MB
        • SHA256 20139f4c327711baf18289584fa0c8112f7bb3ba55475bded21f3d107672ed94
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        unicodedata.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\unicodedata.pyd
        • Size 1.1MB
        • SHA256 b1788b81fa160e5120451f9252c7745cdde98b8ce59bf273a3dd867bb034c532
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        winsound.pyd

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI32482\winsound.pyd
        • Size 30KB
        • SHA256 82f0a5b0a1aa40d79749734211ea96e2f211d74ae1b66309fa03109d889743f6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/3748-1174-0x00007FF9FE3C0000-0x00007FF9FE623000-memory.dmp

        memory/3748-1197-0x00007FF9F81E0000-0x00007FF9F9561000-memory.dmp

        memory/3748-1199-0x00007FF9F81E0000-0x00007FF9F9561000-memory.dmp