Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    153s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    23/09/2026, 19:08

General

  • Target
    connect.msi
  • Size 8.8MB
  • Sample260923-xtck3sss2n
  • SHA256 119a0c6959f126a8e6e2ff82ba597c95a00a2275858e03b62b110d60965bb3f3
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Extracted

Family
  • adaptixc2

C2
  • 187.77.30.227

Attributes
  • port

    5005

  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121202 Firefox/20.0

Signatures

  • Family: AdaptixC2

    AdaptixC2 is an open-source C2 framework written in C++.

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 23 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 32 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 1 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
    msiexec.exe /I C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\connect.msi
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4532
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI3629.tmp
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI3629.tmp"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      PID:5124
  • C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe /V
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    PID:1792

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        MSI3629.tmp

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI3629.tmp
        • Size 8.7MB
        • SHA256 27df8b11e83668baa91616583f27599251c2d554e4c941fe39ed2db2b86771ab
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/5124-3-0x000001F02BC90000-0x000001F02BCBD000-memory.dmp