Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • 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
    21/08/2026, 12:56

General

  • Target
    2026-08-21_e3831d97d60257492b200010559fcadf_amadey_elex_glassworm_hellokitty_hijackloader_icedid_luc.exe
  • Size 5.4MB
  • Sample260821-p6rlrseq2w
  • SHA256 b5e7214381bdc2dde1a76757064aa7b942595fc3bacd5e515abcdd4fe9e40ce1
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Sets service image path in registry 3 TTPs 1 IoCs

    This determines the executable launched when a service starts. It can be used to establish persistence.

  • Signed with revoked ConnectWise certificate 5 IoCs

    Binary is signed using a ConnectWise certificate revoked for key compromise.

  • ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote access tool

    ConnectWise ScreenConnect is a remote desktop tool that can be used as a backdoor.

  • Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking 1 TTPs

    Adversaries may establish persistence by executing malicious content triggered by hijacked references to Component Object Model (COM) objects.

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 22 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 46 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Authentication Package 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Suspicious Windows Authentication Registry Modification.

  • Drops file in System32 directory 33 IoCs
  • Drops file in Program Files directory 18 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 17 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 7 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Checks SCSI registry key(s) 3 TTPs 5 IoCs

    SCSI information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 8 IoCs
  • Modifies registry class 37 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 7 IoCs
  • Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

    The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-21_e3831d97d60257492b200010559fcadf_amadey_elex_glassworm_hellokitty_hijackloader_icedid_luc.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-21_e3831d97d60257492b200010559fcadf_amadey_elex_glassworm_hellokitty_hijackloader_icedid_luc.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4836
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe" /i "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect\25.2.4.9229\3f0e0084355e4655\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi"
      2⤵
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
      PID:2788
  • C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /V
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Authentication Package
    • Drops file in Program Files directory
    • Drops file in Windows directory
    • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4100
    • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
      C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding A9AAAF05C20246423B36ED91B23114ED C
      2⤵
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4512
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe
        rundll32.exe "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSIA57D.tmp",zzzzInvokeManagedCustomActionOutOfProc SfxCA_240756234 1 ScreenConnect.InstallerActions!ScreenConnect.ClientInstallerActions.FixupServiceArguments
        3⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:5524
    • C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\srtasks.exe ExecuteScopeRestorePoint /WaitForRestorePoint:2
      2⤵
        PID:3436
      • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
        C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding 664661CBDE781ED35AE491148A9E8230
        2⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
        PID:5116
      • C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe
        C:\Windows\syswow64\MsiExec.exe -Embedding 6F146584D3DFD4E601E1DBEA51BD23DB E Global\MSI0000
        2⤵
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • Drops file in Windows directory
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
        PID:3792
    • C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe
      1⤵
      • Checks SCSI registry key(s)
      PID:2476
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe
      "C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe" "?e=Access&y=Guest&s=2dbd8210-7807-4852-8851-b049253c1382&k=BgIAAACkAABSU0ExAAgAAAEAAQCZHZ3Vf1pVazARUs%2f0Xk4if5WVc3Yzmlt03m1aGeq4Uql4zFxG96hSdvwaHdUckX%2fG873u7O5ZF3oh0lGFEfyJQQybw2EyGx2e%2bO8gpgBU5Rv1wWQjEbcOzrfHTkHRmtRweDsHmujm9qZTMmip9xWWN81LTyPXQ6ch30ls6nvp4g5Dc3dDW6KrSbsQDvrBdE5UN%2bYGeG5A7X0c7LVbH24Y2f4bOS%2fXWFIWQwcKqvzsjAU9rLhpAuJLGZ8NcK9i8F3fZVdoYtmu2WgWGL8WJkNWvOMh96SUN%2b5Avuu915i7hgfOISNt7kGqGIWvYy%2bi9JbVI%2f1u27r5V1cS4UQzJMne"
      1⤵
      • Sets service image path in registry
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5816
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe
        "C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe" "RunRole" "0a5bdad6-7620-4ea6-a36a-4facc564f3b2" "User"
        2⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:5612

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          e59ee4f.rbs

          • Path C:\Config.Msi\e59ee4f.rbs
          • Size 214KB
          • SHA256 4e708d4231be465778d3bee94656d79fa059e52b83e8bb7adc2ceab735d53492
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Client.Override.resources

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\Client.Override.resources
          • Size 12KB
          • SHA256 af88b79bf5f6070ec256d7603e3dea79ac5aaef03afba8fae3e7c14cebe1b820
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Client.en-US.resources

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\Client.en-US.resources
          • Size 48KB
          • SHA256 6a000a67799a071883b6e25f86d91c2c513aae0b34b3643be77e5b889335fb95
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Client.resources

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\Client.resources
          • Size 28KB
          • SHA256 95b299c8c163731707e8134946059a28c668c2b65b48f57eac2847dbe4beb63e
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Client.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.Client.dll
          • Size 192KB
          • SHA256 6526705b685c2f221a6675118c73cba98c47d948169d81ea4544c3e3336b8f2b
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientService.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.dll
          • Size 66KB
          • SHA256 319ba24115e64ea4b714caf4e88d3d5a658defd51d714c2291b9758466925281
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.ClientService.exe
          • Size 93KB
          • SHA256 f048400c23add8c75abe189393d33c873c02c74eeaf43d47b950c8d643763b35
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsAuthenticationPackage.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.WindowsAuthenticationPackage.dll
          • Size 254KB
          • SHA256 a5b8f0070201e4f26260af6a25941ea38bd7042aefd48cd68b9acf951fa99ee5
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe
          • Size 593KB
          • SHA256 b80d07610b81bddb3d7f30a207a2e134b559e06b8440598a926f3a9c1d439218
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe.config

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.exe.config
          • Size 266B
          • SHA256 87c640d3184c17d3b446a72d5f13d643a774b4ecc7afbedfd4e8da7795ea8077
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          ScreenConnect.WindowsCredentialProvider.dll

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ScreenConnect.WindowsCredentialProvider.dll
          • Size 837KB
          • SHA256 36ad3b4858ee84fd2a73522a9ad25d177f492a65e1cbc6630169dc820dc2b63d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          app.config

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\app.config
          • Size 963B
          • SHA256 e83d538e6a597b02af3f70bbdd2830982961ef2e7a9e078222c1729dd7170503
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          system.config

          • Path C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\system.config
          • Size 904B
          • SHA256 d82c41efeaa6e1a40d242a72fff65db5529fde9403a4c7018f0781515bb6a3f9
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          MSIA57D.tmp

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSIA57D.tmp
          • Size 1.0MB
          • SHA256 a45ba86c5d13aa8e814e4cb0860b5b2a39ce9677b0d980947f6fe31676051cb2
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSIA57D.tmp-\Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll
          • Size 172KB
          • SHA256 3e54286e348ebd3d70eaed8174cca500455c3e098cdd1fccb167bc43d93db29d
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Core.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSIA57D.tmp-\ScreenConnect.Core.dll
          • Size 538KB
          • SHA256 b8100e5ab07983cbf82d721cf719576ca3f60e352628dcaabd42d428011fdedf
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.InstallerActions.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSIA57D.tmp-\ScreenConnect.InstallerActions.dll
          • Size 11KB
          • SHA256 c79a22accadb1f8a716669ca68c6d6f4e9a21c0d639e2846f288b60bc8adc770
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.Windows.dll

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSIA57D.tmp-\ScreenConnect.Windows.dll
          • Size 1.6MB
          • SHA256 da29455a64858fda773319c32c0a6cd40edbe8042ed005aa2befb8a4f0fb0522
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenConnect\25.2.4.9229\3f0e0084355e4655\ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi
          • Size 11.2MB
          • SHA256 6a952db35fb6e356daf9e457a792acfb56f9050be19d7c44f93ba0b81114ac67
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          MSIF42B.tmp

          • Path C:\Windows\Installer\MSIF42B.tmp
          • Size 202KB
          • SHA256 3cff4ac91288a0ff0c13278e73b282a64e83d089c5a61a45d483194ab336b852
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          53q3dtal.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\53q3dtal.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 87ca6ce5081868e1592dea7338883e4218df3df5263afd37a191ef849c1015c7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          a5hmhshb.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\a5hmhshb.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 b5b1ee0b151a3eed8db68d726717c707a70470eaeddad903af210c8a13abe5bd
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          cqm5qypu.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\cqm5qypu.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 c3b3e9d0cfb1fa898b819286973f35c212088bf4008f615036fef7c5f6665b08
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          eatzjeqb.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\eatzjeqb.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 afadaa6f9ccf7834f86e45ca6adf5d804911e7dcbdaeb33567b8427c59fbe7d7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          gy2lke0y.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\gy2lke0y.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 f3e88fce0ad6dd9a8ee83532261a20f151f755bc58fc154c273442e6590a4fba
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          hvjyvmyr.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\hvjyvmyr.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 ff46b81af7e3da51d7f67af332a25711e3afcf5b0a80ce6f325828ee9ba0389b
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          lhvdzkcz.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\lhvdzkcz.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 1320279332f95aeea1a3abecced3a1e8149c8e0e9e1221118c5c9d4afcdb8622
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          omxf5313.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\omxf5313.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 96e9eca06631e87227ef9028e160e6bc9465c221ada1f5f641ffd7528c47403c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          ppebzute.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\ppebzute.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 0619e4d3a862fd2e644400a30028f78725db849ad855e4c7a8f771006166967e
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          user.config

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\user.config
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 eb3d690792b0fc6ce8b20472ac8438392c17c4dc246e1ddc4d691591fbf8bcf2
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          w1q4tzgq.newcfg

          • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\ScreenConnect Client (3f0e0084355e4655)\w1q4tzgq.newcfg
          • Size 590B
          • SHA256 359d7a89f28b6b9ca8f724fe06f6889a622fabd5934bae4c10ffcd567abaeebb
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          metadata-2

          • Path \??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2\System Volume Information\SPP\metadata-2
          • Size 26.1MB
          • SHA256 b329dccc4307e6ec776e0c60f5366895bde5cd7f7cc52777d4186cd49a0ae4ec
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          {83bdcdc1-2364-49b4-a8c7-132ee2704d94}_OnDiskSnapshotProp

          • Path \??\Volume{cb1876cb-0000-0000-0000-d08302000000}\System Volume Information\SPP\OnlineMetadataCache\{83bdcdc1-2364-49b4-a8c7-132ee2704d94}_OnDiskSnapshotProp
          • Size 6KB
          • SHA256 ab6a08cb0db3ab41bf7d81b2ed2c3dc1ae70d1e3af59ef402bc50672dad3b181
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/4100-56-0x0000014121340000-0x0000014121CE4000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-7-0x0000000005D40000-0x00000000062FA000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-6-0x0000000005190000-0x000000000533C000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-9-0x0000000074520000-0x0000000074CDC000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-8-0x0000000074520000-0x0000000074CDC000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-10-0x0000000074520000-0x0000000074CDC000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-4-0x0000000002CC0000-0x0000000002CE2000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-5-0x0000000074520000-0x0000000074CDC000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-0-0x0000000074532000-0x0000000074533000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-3-0x0000000005030000-0x00000000050BC000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-2-0x0000000005490000-0x0000000005782000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-1-0x0000000001050000-0x0000000001058000-memory.dmp

          memory/4836-13-0x0000000074520000-0x0000000074CDC000-memory.dmp

          memory/5524-32-0x00000000054A0000-0x00000000054CE000-memory.dmp

          memory/5524-44-0x0000000005830000-0x00000000059DC000-memory.dmp

          memory/5524-40-0x00000000055F0000-0x000000000567C000-memory.dmp

          memory/5524-36-0x00000000054D0000-0x00000000054DA000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-136-0x00000000012E0000-0x00000000012F8000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-135-0x00000000012A0000-0x00000000012B8000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-137-0x0000000002C00000-0x0000000002C41000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-134-0x000000001BDD0000-0x000000001BF58000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-132-0x000000001B670000-0x000000001B6FC000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-133-0x000000001BC20000-0x000000001BDCC000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-130-0x0000000000980000-0x0000000000A18000-memory.dmp

          memory/5612-131-0x0000000002BC0000-0x0000000002BF6000-memory.dmp

          memory/5816-119-0x0000000004530000-0x0000000004571000-memory.dmp

          memory/5816-121-0x0000000004890000-0x0000000004965000-memory.dmp

          memory/5816-117-0x00000000046A0000-0x0000000004732000-memory.dmp

          memory/5816-116-0x00000000045C0000-0x00000000045F6000-memory.dmp

          memory/5816-112-0x0000000004570000-0x00000000045C0000-memory.dmp

          memory/5816-90-0x0000000004040000-0x0000000004058000-memory.dmp