Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
149s - max time network
120s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
28/08/2026, 04:29
General
- Target plutonium.exe
- Size 4.6MB
- Sample260828-e4av5atbja
- SHA256 85d1d1ca4d5881d9b98928c2006fb0eec9655e2705fe74088e6f974a19703f0f
Malware Config
Signatures
- Downloads MZ/PE file 18 IoCs
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 1 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 23 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
- Drops file in System32 directory 9 IoCs
- Drops file in Windows directory 5 IoCs
- 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.
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\plutonium.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\plutonium.exe"1⤵
- Downloads MZ/PE file
- Checks computer location settings
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\468f62a9-f186-4fe6-be4d-93c2a5c16562.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\468f62a9-f186-4fe6-be4d-93c2a5c16562.exe" /Q2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP000.TMP\dxwsetup.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP000.TMP\dxwsetup.exe /windowsupdate3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- Enumerates connected drives
- Drops file in System32 directory
- Drops file in Windows directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
468f62a9-f186-4fe6-be4d-93c2a5c16562.exe
dsetup.dll
dxupdate.cif
dxupdate.dll
dxupdate.inf
dxwsetup.cif
dxwsetup.cif
dxwsetup.exe
dxwsetup.inf
DirectX.log
dsetup32.dll
dxupdate.cab
filelist.dat
filelist.dat
memory/4104-12-0x0000016F5C100000-0x0000016F5C966000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-66-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-16-0x0000016F5C010000-0x0000016F5C036000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-17-0x0000016F5A3E0000-0x0000016F5A3E8000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-18-0x0000016F5CB40000-0x0000016F5CB48000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-19-0x0000016F5CB50000-0x0000016F5CB66000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-20-0x0000016F5CB30000-0x0000016F5CB3A000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-21-0x0000016F5CB70000-0x0000016F5CB8E000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-22-0x0000016F5CB90000-0x0000016F5CBB8000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-23-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-24-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-25-0x0000016F603A0000-0x0000016F603D8000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-26-0x0000016F5F570000-0x0000016F5F57E000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-27-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-38-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-44-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-46-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-13-0x0000016F5BF80000-0x0000016F5BFD0000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-14-0x0000016F5BFD0000-0x0000016F5BFF2000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-15-0x0000016F5C970000-0x0000016F5C9F2000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-0-0x0000016F3F870000-0x0000016F3FD18000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-11-0x0000016F5C040000-0x0000016F5C0FA000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-10-0x0000016F5A3F0000-0x0000016F5A3F8000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-9-0x0000016F5A3A0000-0x0000016F5A3E2000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-8-0x0000016F5BB20000-0x0000016F5BE8C000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-7-0x0000016F418D0000-0x0000016F418DA000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-6-0x0000016F418B0000-0x0000016F418BA000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-5-0x0000016F41A70000-0x0000016F41A8A000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-4-0x0000016F400D0000-0x0000016F400DC000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-3-0x0000016F418C0000-0x0000016F418C8000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-2-0x0000016F5A2E0000-0x0000016F5A360000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-1-0x0000016F5A400000-0x0000016F5A410000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-3981-0x0000016F59B10000-0x0000016F59B86000-memory.dmp
memory/4104-3982-0x0000016F60870000-0x0000016F608A2000-memory.dmp