Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
179s - max time network
178s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
04/08/2026, 15:40
General
- Target balloons.exe
- Size 2.6MB
- Sample260804-s4ar1stdnb
- SHA256 ee38d2feb95a01c192ef7b60631b78e6feab9360a0af2fc2d0518c68a63686c6
Malware Config
Signatures
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Checks installed software on the system 1 TTPs
Looks up Uninstall key entries in the registry to enumerate software on the system.
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Inno Setup is an open-source installation builder for Windows applications. 3 IoCs
Inno Setup installer
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\balloons.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\balloons.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-YCTV6OLAR2.tmp\balloons.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-YCTV6OLAR2.tmp\balloons.tmp" /SL5="$E020E,1417672,876032,C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\balloons.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Balloons\Balloons.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Balloons\Balloons.exe" -update3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Balloons.exe
balloons.tmp
memory/2436-63-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006D4000-memory.dmp
memory/2436-7-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006D4000-memory.dmp
memory/2436-0-0x00000000005F0000-0x00000000006D4000-memory.dmp
memory/2900-50-0x0000000000CE0000-0x0000000001120000-memory.dmp
memory/2900-8-0x0000000000CE0000-0x0000000001120000-memory.dmp
memory/2900-62-0x0000000000CE0000-0x0000000001120000-memory.dmp
memory/2900-5-0x0000000000CC0000-0x0000000000CC1000-memory.dmp
memory/3948-57-0x00000174B6820000-0x00000174B685E000-memory.dmp
memory/3948-58-0x00000174D0DA0000-0x00000174D0DB0000-memory.dmp
memory/3948-59-0x00000174B6D30000-0x00000174B6D38000-memory.dmp
memory/3948-60-0x00000174D0DB0000-0x00000174D0DE8000-memory.dmp
memory/3948-61-0x00000174D0D50000-0x00000174D0D5E000-memory.dmp
memory/3948-64-0x00000174D0DA0000-0x00000174D0DB0000-memory.dmp