Analysis

  • user interaction
    yes
  • max time kernel
    80s
  • max time network
    70s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    17/08/2026, 15:37

General

  • Target
    Shift_Setup (1).exe
  • Size 43.8MB
  • Sample260817-s2lrhadp3x
  • SHA256 6aa3b3d7cb5f45291f95e644d9081abe94887adf2b44bf843587566313d0b191
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 16 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

  • Kills process with taskkill 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 3 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Shift_Setup (1).exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Shift_Setup (1).exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4068
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-G174LZPHJ5.tmp\Shift_Setup (1).tmp
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-G174LZPHJ5.tmp\Shift_Setup (1).tmp" /SL5="$40188,44729943,893952,C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Shift_Setup (1).exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5992
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Shift.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Shift.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
        • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2756
        • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
          taskkill.exe /F /T /IM ShiftBridge.exe
          4⤵
          • Kills process with taskkill
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          PID:4764
  • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k GPSvcGroup
    1⤵
      PID:4632

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          Shift_Setup (1).tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-G174LZPHJ5.tmp\Shift_Setup (1).tmp
          • Size 4.2MB
          • SHA256 b82631bcf88d432074c99496689de61010c2d6fc20302655ecf63c4956c80ee3
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Qt6Core.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Qt6Core.dll
          • Size 5.8MB
          • SHA256 f0ccc66f9496c6ad1075fc08466bb0ccd7b9f3ee014292dd5036c8fcc2018e72
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Qt6Gui.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Qt6Gui.dll
          • Size 8.8MB
          • SHA256 7bf2863d491430da8d08e396f6b255afd7696166697b5d089137bc63cb46faac
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Qt6Network.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Qt6Network.dll
          • Size 1.7MB
          • SHA256 6da1755bf7ffeef5d42da0a0b7b32d088b5b947288698a9e19f90faf218918b8
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Qt6Svg.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Qt6Svg.dll
          • Size 503KB
          • SHA256 1228eb1cd6bce4b0c1703b1e2dad4c4cfe814f4f0d4c92e5a78010c4e45dcada
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Qt6Widgets.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Qt6Widgets.dll
          • Size 6.2MB
          • SHA256 413b6fee48a2a6c7b864057ce172308189a8a4e74642a03dbf7a64d0e7548e7c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Shift.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\Shift.exe
          • Size 4.4MB
          • SHA256 ae66abfd02979388566d7945bd24947b9e0e00fda08eb82def537f9bf62e61b0
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          bz2.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\bz2.dll
          • Size 75KB
          • SHA256 34be99c2ff6b26dcd6bca0573c77cf09c8b524b4ff2f2347f8ae3327c52bd990
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qsvgicon.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\iconengines\qsvgicon.dll
          • Size 76KB
          • SHA256 bc2193ee257c345d1c31133bae4d27b7a3df0137275d32bafdcfb51cd9c79358
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qgif.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\imageformats\qgif.dll
          • Size 46KB
          • SHA256 ed0e28a910d0e03073da287ed33cae5a7d06cb6f82cb5bf9df5adf49d6ae6894
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qico.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\imageformats\qico.dll
          • Size 45KB
          • SHA256 a58f59a6b7f95c3902f738e56e8f72fc72fb48cf76d220e97dd067dbcf2d3199
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qjpeg.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\imageformats\qjpeg.dll
          • Size 560KB
          • SHA256 2863940aba4c0e4908d3893d7d8b0ffa43539d1ed463fd5b7f6bc62b04282f8c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qsvg.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\imageformats\qsvg.dll
          • Size 38KB
          • SHA256 0af40394be65d34e8853ecc1d0a829c083378f3b3bdfaa3f143b3f4abf1951cb
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qwindows.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\platforms\qwindows.dll
          • Size 889KB
          • SHA256 eeecf7a66e66fe8c846f6b4f541ceb9f4e643699cae4ff565240bced693da19d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qmodernwindowsstyle.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\styles\qmodernwindowsstyle.dll
          • Size 207KB
          • SHA256 35c0cba7e7a5ed5b8d7cfa6c9fb9b78aa9e7cb2d3c92c5cf8a3548a835b84e11
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          zip.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\zip.dll
          • Size 111KB
          • SHA256 6f7413b59d18f4c08e2405c0e3709cff276952a41992897ccc05362625c90926
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          zlib1.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Shift\zlib1.dll
          • Size 88KB
          • SHA256 9d79b6986a615689e40e8ad9c95a3e3fe906f641551c1e353d0547bdf526b6f5
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/2756-99-0x00007FF908CD0000-0x00007FF909304000-memory.dmp

          memory/4068-0-0x0000000000100000-0x00000000001E9000-memory.dmp

          memory/4068-8-0x0000000000100000-0x00000000001E9000-memory.dmp

          memory/4068-124-0x0000000000100000-0x00000000001E9000-memory.dmp

          memory/5992-10-0x0000000001180000-0x0000000001181000-memory.dmp

          memory/5992-6-0x0000000001180000-0x0000000001181000-memory.dmp

          memory/5992-9-0x00000000001D0000-0x000000000061B000-memory.dmp

          memory/5992-12-0x00000000001D0000-0x000000000061B000-memory.dmp

          memory/5992-122-0x00000000001D0000-0x000000000061B000-memory.dmp

          memory/5992-123-0x00000000001D0000-0x000000000061B000-memory.dmp