Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
149s - max time network
152s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows - submitted
22/09/2026, 10:38
Static task
static1
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
run_freakspan.bat
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral2
Sample
run_freakspan.bat
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
General
- Target run_freakspan.bat
- Size 111KB
- Sample260922-mpql2acc22
- SHA256 2d10a35143c6e1f9b2759d4501702964bc41807e86bb7771dd6b7ca9ae70facb
- MD5 2a8425e662ef071c7ff40dac808cb993
- SHA1 f0ce46b8cc2034eea63d5beff056b9a33c341673
- SHA512 02e603435ae4e0ab20324cad045ef7bbcb60dafb768d8b0641741fbd0e425efd7be40271b7867afcec7ba042d95b4b24952dd3ddeb71ced0be1585bb88e5df87
- SSDEEP 3072:qQmzRjPkDPRVawHuDU3mleiiO6Ar/eOtw/eIYiTV:q6HHvdiiIKTV
- TLSH T10CB3D657CE573DA2A7A4A2872DCDB9C21DEC339B30E304ED095BDA9893DC5A814F109D
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Malware Config
Signatures
- Modifies Windows Firewall 2 TTPs 8 IoCs
pid Process 4752 netsh.exe 2552 netsh.exe 4884 netsh.exe 3500 netsh.exe 2724 netsh.exe 2052 netsh.exe 1688 netsh.exe 2768 netsh.exe -
pid Process 2796 powershell.exe 4808 powershell.exe - Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Command interpreters often include specific commands/flags that ignore errors and other hangups.
pid Process 2996 powershell.exe - Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL 1 TTPs 24 IoCs
Netsh.exe (also referred to as Netshell) is a command-line scripting utility used to interact with the network configuration of a system.
description ioc Process Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key queried \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe Key value enumerated \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NetSh netsh.exe - Executes a command shell one-liner 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Execution of a cmd.exe one-liner (/c "close" or /k "keep") is a common script/loader stage.
pid Process 3712 cmd.exe - Runs net.exe
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 6 IoCs
pid Process 2796 powershell.exe 2796 powershell.exe 2996 powershell.exe 2996 powershell.exe 4808 powershell.exe 4808 powershell.exe - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
description pid Process Token: SeDebugPrivilege 2796 powershell.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 2996 powershell.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 4808 powershell.exe - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 13 IoCs
description pid Process procid_target PID 3712 wrote to memory of 212 3712 cmd.exe 92 PID 212 wrote to memory of 32 212 net.exe 93 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 2796 3712 cmd.exe 94 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 2996 3712 cmd.exe 95 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 4808 3712 cmd.exe 96 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 2552 3712 cmd.exe 97 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 4884 3712 cmd.exe 98 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 3500 3712 cmd.exe 99 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 2724 3712 cmd.exe 100 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 2052 3712 cmd.exe 101 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 1688 3712 cmd.exe 102 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 2768 3712 cmd.exe 103 PID 3712 wrote to memory of 4752 3712 cmd.exe 104
Processes
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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\run_freakspan.bat"1⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:3712 -
C:\Windows\system32\net.exenet session2⤵
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:212 -
C:\Windows\system32\net1.exeC:\Windows\system32\net1 session3⤵PID:32
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exepowershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "$bat='C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\run_freakspan.bat'; $lines=Get-Content -LiteralPath $bat; $s=[Array]::IndexOf($lines,'::FREAKSPAN_BEGIN')+1; $e=[Array]::IndexOf($lines,'::FREAKSPAN_END'); $b64=($lines[$s..($e-1)] -join ''); [IO.File]::WriteAllBytes('C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\FreakSpan\file.py',[Convert]::FromBase64String($b64))"2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:2796
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exepowershell -NoProfile -Command "Unblock-File -LiteralPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\FreakSpan\file.py' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue"2⤵
- Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:2996
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exepowershell -NoProfile -Command "Write-Host 'Download successful' -ForegroundColor Green"2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:4808
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="FreakSpan Main TCP"2⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:2552
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="FreakSpan Main TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=459172⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:4884
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="FreakSpan Secondary TCP"2⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:3500
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="FreakSpan Secondary TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=459182⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:2724
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="FreakSpan Discovery UDP"2⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:2052
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="FreakSpan Discovery UDP" dir=in action=allow protocol=UDP localport=459192⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:1688
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="FreakSpan Outbound HTTPS"2⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:2768
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="FreakSpan Outbound HTTPS" dir=out action=allow protocol=TCP remoteport=4432⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
PID:4752
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Execution
Command and Scripting Interpreter
2PowerShell
1Windows Command Shell
1Persistence
Create or Modify System Process
1Windows Service
1Event Triggered Execution
1Netsh Helper DLL
1Privilege Escalation
Create or Modify System Process
1Windows Service
1Event Triggered Execution
1Netsh Helper DLL
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Downloads
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
- Size 2KB
- SHA256 b1f292b6199aa29c7fafbca007e5f9e3f68edcbbca1965bc828cc92dc0f18bb8
- MD5 6cf293cb4d80be23433eecf74ddb5503
- SHA1 24fe4752df102c2ef492954d6b046cb5512ad408
- SHA512 0f91e2da0da8794b9797c7b50eb5dfd27bde4546ceb6902a776664ce887dd6f12a0dd8773d612ccc76dfd029cd280778a0f0ae17ce679b3d2ffd968dd7e94a00
- TLSH T148510F323375F1E4C8567F071E68198053BF4395EA94AF5CB298621ED92741B8F222F3
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
- Size 1KB
- SHA256 ec3e323c9d049e5f87972b242595fb66d304e287cf313e831d2a9ca1a65cc99e
- MD5 e7debf42b084dff2ccf9cf1ba81a7f07
- SHA1 bdda6e14357d34dfd58e9d5a9ea8146bd6589bbd
- SHA512 06b50c9c4cd2008343d6ea22aedf14eebaa34a022e9e866c87552c6b21f881416576951984a2cc4be22ec9b6dfac038d3bcd2121c15704d7b76a388ca64c3464
- TLSH T169117623F3DC8A21CC96163A509D9C2172B683DB819EDF9F7BC0D205A5BF588CB61290
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
- Size 1KB
- SHA256 7af7d25fe7e3bb8b75bcffaa8573e2e9af7e7f70a840fa8bc0196d0ab396ecdd
- MD5 6c4805e00673bef922d51b1a7137028f
- SHA1 0eabb38482d1733dd85a2af9c5342c2cafcd41eb
- SHA512 eb6dacb4e0da6f45028ebf65ebffdc6aecdb6a34a582bb69aa5836ef02a7115f6b500ef2dd6a2c2be994ec9d0cbbff564368724593666105d3d4475441830cc1
- TLSH T1FD117637B39C8A21CC96153A409DAC1172B683C781AEDF9F6FC0D215A1BF984CB711A0
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_yjypqncq.aco.ps1
- Size 60B
- SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
- MD5 d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641
- SHA1 6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d
- SHA512 5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82
- TLSH T177A02228CC303B200020C0080A000002C00B800C080C8C0220000A00B20B820002F080
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH