Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    144s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    09/08/2026, 14:57

General

  • Target
    2026-08-09_0b0235a35f69695cb4f89c6e9845ad4e_hive.exe
  • Size 1.6MB
  • Sample260809-sbs3wszgke
  • SHA256 2762e7493c181a121eaa601a35824ca95c4db54859e015f4653ec31364134e3f
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • xworm

Version
  • 5.0

C2
  • laohe5.myvnc.com:7000

Mutex
  • QcAzgLGZqdb0D41z

Attributes
  • install_file

    USB.exe

aes.plain

Signatures

  • Family: DonutLoader

    DonutLoader is a position-independent code that enables in-memory execution of VBScript, JScript, EXE, DLL files and dotNET assemblies.

  • Family: Xworm

    Xworm is a remote access trojan written in C#.

  • Detect Xworm Payload 1 IoCs
  • Detects DonutLoader 1 IoCs
  • Detects Windows executables referencing non-Windows User-Agents 1 IoCs
  • UPX dump on OEP (original entry point) 12 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Run Powershell and hide display window.

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 12 IoCs

    Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 17 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 6 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Windows\explorer.exe
    explorer.exe /LOADSAVEDWINDOWS
    1⤵
    • Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    PID:5324
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_0b0235a35f69695cb4f89c6e9845ad4e_hive.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_0b0235a35f69695cb4f89c6e9845ad4e_hive.exe"
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5164
      • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe
        C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\SettingsSynce199b9\winlogone199b9.xml
        3⤵
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:1988
        • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\csc.exe
          "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\csc.exe" /noconfig /fullpaths @"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sf5r4pte\sf5r4pte.cmdline"
          4⤵
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:4608
          • C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\cvtres.exe
            C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\cvtres.exe /NOLOGO /READONLY /MACHINE:IX86 "/OUT:C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\RES7E1F.tmp" "c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sf5r4pte\CSC44203C1329FD40C3973FC4325AF8D263.TMP"
            5⤵
              PID:2472
        • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\SettingsSynce199b9\servicese199b9.exe
          C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\SettingsSynce199b9\servicese199b9.exe
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:4896
          • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
            powershell -NoP -W Hidden -Command -
            4⤵
            • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
            • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:3688

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          RES7E1F.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\RES7E1F.tmp
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 c8c807b65e3ebb08862e68b2d5a5ec55b8d5d4669c9af70e74f83ddb31c0b74c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          sf5r4pte.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sf5r4pte\sf5r4pte.dll
          • Size 7KB
          • SHA256 57028cb66e5a2c1a366ef0f56eb1c177c688d7943d453ea0f16200b23cbfe138
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          sf5r4pte.pdb

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sf5r4pte\sf5r4pte.pdb
          • Size 13KB
          • SHA256 2540761d7764351df5c58bd0a276a6799f9160b578d097efd61581628d15abaf
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          servicese199b9.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\SettingsSynce199b9\servicese199b9.exe
          • Size 1.5MB
          • SHA256 0a31fff47cd2c2f4e1981f2c7eedebbd608b49def4523169e5c96653701eb5e1
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          winlogone199b9.xml

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\SettingsSynce199b9\winlogone199b9.xml
          • Size 8KB
          • SHA256 6f53851c8a7ddfaac3b5f9d4d950dde36c5fb1385bba74ae45eae60b80521903
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          wuauclte199b9.png

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\SettingsSynce199b9\wuauclte199b9.png
          • Size 90KB
          • SHA256 08fbe3c62eb8e7ba69b45599d825cf68f5d39bb5a35c5b9e336e1db7f6da8fb9
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          CSC44203C1329FD40C3973FC4325AF8D263.TMP

          • Path \??\c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sf5r4pte\CSC44203C1329FD40C3973FC4325AF8D263.TMP
          • Size 652B
          • SHA256 544b9068530456a2b3c6a0d6cdb395c3cd9b286aa4bd92634186b4ed32a9ed21
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          sf5r4pte.0.cs

          • Path \??\c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sf5r4pte\sf5r4pte.0.cs
          • Size 7KB
          • SHA256 e2442e7c71459bac1655e97cfb492453d388717bdf0b2b899d43188cbd6ef3d0
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          sf5r4pte.cmdline

          • Path \??\c:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sf5r4pte\sf5r4pte.cmdline
          • Size 981B
          • SHA256 b4916c2fc17a1e7c9ba1e882ee71b41620c05e5961f308903dcd409183afb095
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          memory/1988-13-0x00000278787D0000-0x0000027878800000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-24-0x0000027879B50000-0x0000027879EB0000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-12-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-43-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-15-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-16-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-10-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-17-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-18-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-19-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-20-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-22-0x0000027879460000-0x00000278794A4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-23-0x00000278797F0000-0x000002787996C000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-49-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-25-0x0000027879530000-0x00000278795A6000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-9-0x0000027879200000-0x000002787935A000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-31-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-8-0x00000278786C0000-0x00000278786DA000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-41-0x0000027878780000-0x0000027878788000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-11-0x00007FF844A10000-0x00007FF8453B4000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-5-0x0000027876A60000-0x0000027876A9E000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-7-0x00007FF844B9F000-0x00007FF844BA0000-memory.dmp

          memory/1988-21-0x0000027879590000-0x00000278796B2000-memory.dmp

          memory/3688-59-0x0000015D714A0000-0x0000015D714E8000-memory.dmp

          memory/3688-58-0x0000015D713A0000-0x0000015D713C2000-memory.dmp

          memory/3688-61-0x0000015D71410000-0x0000015D71418000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-6-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-45-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-46-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-47-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-48-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-44-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-1-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-54-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-42-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-3-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-2-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5164-0-0x00000000002C0000-0x000000000070D000-memory.dmp

          memory/5324-62-0x0000000003670000-0x0000000003680000-memory.dmp

          memory/5324-64-0x0000000003A70000-0x0000000003A7E000-memory.dmp