Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
148s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
26/08/2026, 06:31
General
- Target catalog availability.exe
- Size 988KB
- Sample260826-hakd9atdph
- SHA256 f46d33c375782da0e95cf1c67ac78a2b3204d71363763b044ae541172f1d3d81
Malware Config
Signatures
- Family: Xworm
Xworm is a remote access trojan written in C#.
- Detect Xworm Payload 1 IoCs
- 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.
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 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.
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 9 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\catalog availability.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\catalog availability.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\catalog availability.exe"2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe"2⤵
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C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe"2⤵
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C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegSvcs.exe"2⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exe"C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /create /f /RL HIGHEST /sc minute /mo 1 /tn "Pictures" /tr "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe"3⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Execution
Command and Scripting Interpreter
1PowerShell
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Persistence
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Privilege Escalation
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Replay Monitor
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Downloads
Pictures.exe.log
Pictures.exe
__PSScriptPolicyTest_clsng3re.b23.ps1
memory/1688-63-0x0000000002D50000-0x0000000002D71000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-53-0x0000000005A80000-0x0000000005A90000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-60-0x0000000005A80000-0x0000000005A90000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-70-0x0000000008300000-0x0000000008466000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-13-0x0000000005760000-0x00000000057C6000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-9-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000438000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-64-0x0000000008FB0000-0x0000000009E14000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-65-0x0000000019E70000-0x000000001A9A2000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-66-0x0000000009E10000-0x0000000009E8A000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-67-0x0000000007F60000-0x0000000007F66000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-72-0x00000000088B0000-0x0000000008D26000-memory.dmp
memory/3060-71-0x00000000064D0000-0x00000000064DA000-memory.dmp
memory/3828-69-0x0000000002BA0000-0x0000000002BC1000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-1-0x0000000005E80000-0x0000000006424000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-8-0x0000000006530000-0x0000000006604000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-7-0x0000000005B40000-0x0000000005B50000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-6-0x0000000005B50000-0x0000000005B62000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-5-0x0000000005BF0000-0x0000000005C8C000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-4-0x0000000005920000-0x000000000592A000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-3-0x0000000005B40000-0x0000000005B50000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-2-0x0000000005970000-0x0000000005A02000-memory.dmp
memory/3984-0-0x0000000000E20000-0x0000000000F1C000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-30-0x0000000002650000-0x0000000002660000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-26-0x0000000005EE0000-0x0000000005F2C000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-39-0x0000000006490000-0x00000000064AE000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-40-0x0000000006E70000-0x0000000006F13000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-41-0x00000000078B0000-0x0000000007F2A000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-42-0x0000000006FB0000-0x0000000006FCA000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-43-0x0000000007230000-0x000000000723A000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-44-0x0000000007440000-0x00000000074D6000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-45-0x00000000073C0000-0x00000000073D1000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-46-0x00000000073F0000-0x00000000073FE000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-47-0x0000000007400000-0x0000000007414000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-48-0x0000000007500000-0x000000000751A000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-49-0x00000000074E0000-0x00000000074E8000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-12-0x0000000002650000-0x0000000002660000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-11-0x0000000002560000-0x0000000002596000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-14-0x0000000005030000-0x0000000005658000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-29-0x00000000705F0000-0x000000007063C000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-28-0x0000000006450000-0x0000000006482000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-27-0x000000007F480000-0x000000007F490000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-31-0x0000000002650000-0x0000000002660000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-25-0x0000000005E90000-0x0000000005EAE000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-24-0x00000000058E0000-0x0000000005C34000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-16-0x00000000056D0000-0x0000000005736000-memory.dmp
memory/4400-15-0x0000000004EE0000-0x0000000004F02000-memory.dmp
memory/4428-57-0x0000000005580000-0x00000000055BC000-memory.dmp
memory/4428-58-0x0000000002F00000-0x0000000002F21000-memory.dmp
memory/4428-56-0x0000000000D40000-0x0000000000D4E000-memory.dmp