Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    150s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    26/08/2026, 06:31

General

  • Target
    ca​talog a​v‍‌ailabil‍ity.exe
  • Size 988KB
  • Sample260826-hakd9atdph
  • SHA256 f46d33c375782da0e95cf1c67ac78a2b3204d71363763b044ae541172f1d3d81
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

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.

  • 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 4 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 7 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ca​talog a​v‍‌ailabil‍ity.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ca​talog a​v‍‌ailabil‍ity.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4160
    • 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\ca​talog a​v‍‌ailabil‍ity.exe"
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:6356
    • 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
      PID:1924
      • 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
        PID:1296
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    PID:5448
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe"
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    PID:6508
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe"
    1⤵
    • Executes dropped EXE
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    PID:6720

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        Pictures.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Pictures.exe
        • Size 38KB
        • SHA256 083bc9319eb8066131b8005dd7013f85f2a27c7908767f94183d3e153b8db12b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/1924-41-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-58-0x0000000009ED0000-0x0000000009EDA000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-47-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-48-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-52-0x0000000011F70000-0x0000000012AA2000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-53-0x0000000008D10000-0x0000000008D8A000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-54-0x0000000008640000-0x0000000008646000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-51-0x00000000167D0000-0x0000000017634000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-57-0x000000000A170000-0x000000000A2D6000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-14-0x00000000058C0000-0x0000000005926000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-11-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000438000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-59-0x000000000B830000-0x000000000BCA6000-memory.dmp

        memory/1924-13-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-8-0x00000000749A2000-0x00000000749A3000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-10-0x00000000059F0000-0x0000000005AC4000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-9-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-7-0x00000000056B0000-0x00000000056C2000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-6-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-5-0x0000000005750000-0x00000000057EC000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-22-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-4-0x0000000005520000-0x000000000552A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-3-0x0000000005530000-0x00000000055C2000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-1-0x0000000000920000-0x0000000000A1C000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-0-0x00000000749A2000-0x00000000749A3000-memory.dmp

        memory/4160-2-0x0000000005C10000-0x00000000061CA000-memory.dmp

        memory/5448-46-0x0000000005320000-0x0000000005342000-memory.dmp

        memory/5448-44-0x0000000000A30000-0x0000000000A3E000-memory.dmp

        memory/5448-45-0x0000000005360000-0x000000000539C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-38-0x0000000007E20000-0x0000000007EB6000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-24-0x0000000006840000-0x000000000685E000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-36-0x0000000007BB0000-0x0000000007BCA000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-37-0x0000000007C20000-0x0000000007C2A000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-31-0x0000000006E10000-0x0000000006E30000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-40-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-26-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-25-0x0000000006870000-0x00000000068BC000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-34-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-23-0x0000000006430000-0x000000000678B000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-35-0x00000000081F0000-0x000000000886C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-32-0x0000000007A50000-0x0000000007AF3000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-27-0x0000000007A00000-0x0000000007A36000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-12-0x0000000003030000-0x0000000003066000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-28-0x0000000075250000-0x000000007529C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-18-0x0000000005A50000-0x0000000005A72000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-19-0x0000000006150000-0x00000000061B6000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-17-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-15-0x0000000005B00000-0x000000000614A000-memory.dmp

        memory/6356-16-0x0000000074990000-0x000000007514C000-memory.dmp

        memory/6508-50-0x0000000002710000-0x0000000002732000-memory.dmp

        memory/6720-56-0x00000000024F0000-0x0000000002512000-memory.dmp