Analysis

  • user interaction
    yes
  • max time kernel
    13s
  • max time network
    17s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    05/09/2026, 17:40

General

  • Target
    XWormClient.exe
  • Size 145KB
  • Sample260905-v855tsyhrd
  • SHA256 f2b2571ae07c8fe7a357c612b3fece9d766b21e8d10b1f337851e2e6d178c48c
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 4 IoCs

    Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • 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: EnumeratesProcesses 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 24 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XWormClient.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XWormClient.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4912
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XWormClient.exe'
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:4132
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'XWormClient.exe'
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:3216
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe'
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      PID:3172
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'svchost.exe'
      2⤵
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      PID:5656
    • C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /create /f /RL HIGHEST /sc minute /mo 1 /tn "svchost" /tr "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe"
      2⤵
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:2248
  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe
    C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe
    1⤵
      PID:1796

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 9bebf7a261e6ad89e71bbb5ed51580198fc9329cce2c80fdce47532705fbefcd
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 c7b6604ff5990e616d846a778a556a5efde1ee36f30514268effc2484ad84ebc
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 3139e85d0378410a1aff3e7981a762025c00177c0a5a8574b70932bf778fb29c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          __PSScriptPolicyTest_t0nbiq2z.ofl.ps1

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_t0nbiq2z.ofl.ps1
          • Size 60B
          • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          svchost.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\svchost.exe
          • Size 145KB
          • SHA256 f2b2571ae07c8fe7a357c612b3fece9d766b21e8d10b1f337851e2e6d178c48c
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/4132-18-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-20-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-7-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-10-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-11-0x0000011B52FB0000-0x0000011B52FD2000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-12-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-13-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-14-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-16-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-15-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-17-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-29-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-19-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-6-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-23-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-24-0x0000011B53160000-0x0000011B5317E000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-25-0x0000011B53410000-0x0000011B534C2000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-26-0x0000011B53020000-0x0000011B5302A000-memory.dmp

          memory/4132-27-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-0-0x00007FFF27A3F000-0x00007FFF27A40000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-5-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-4-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-3-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-39-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-2-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-53-0x00007FFF278B0000-0x00007FFF28254000-memory.dmp

          memory/4912-1-0x0000000000830000-0x000000000085A000-memory.dmp