Overview

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Static

static

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leaf.exe

windows11-21h2-x64

8

leaf.exe

windows11-ltsc_2024-x64

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General

  • Target
    leaf.exe
  • Size 85KB
  • Sample260816-jbd5ass1et
  • SHA256 5d6c0ddea2cfbbed0e9b25c7c84343c6d79ca711d7ab6fcfb9dbd1991aa99bb7
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
10/10
xmrigexecutionminerpersistence

Malware Config

Targets

    • Target
      leaf.exe
    • Size 85KB
    • SHA256 5d6c0ddea2cfbbed0e9b25c7c84343c6d79ca711d7ab6fcfb9dbd1991aa99bb7
    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
    Score
    10/10
    executionxmrigminerpersistence

    • Family: xmrig

      XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

      minerxmrig

    • XMRig Miner payload

      miner

    • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

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

      execution

    • Downloads MZ/PE file

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Adds Run key to start application

      persistence

    • Contacts third-party web service commonly abused for C2

      Legitimate web (hosting) services can be abused by malware authors to host malware or C2s.

    behavioral1behavioral2

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

Tasks