Overview

overview

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Static

static

3

file.exe

windows10-2004-x64

10

file.exe

windows11-ltsc_2024-x64

10

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General

  • Target
    file.exe
  • Size 10KB
  • Sample260928-w7taba11dz
  • SHA256 882cd8797f417c8898ee087d0ad158ac7b61ac41dd9cb82d0fd26cd55d7fe75e
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
10/10
phorphiexxmrigdefense_evasiondiscoveryexecutionloaderminerpersistencetrojanworm

Malware Config

Extracted

Family

  • phorphiex

C2

  • http://178.16.54.109/us/

  • http://178.16.54.109/c/

  • http://178.16.54.109/ot/

  • http://178.16.54.109/b/

  • http://178.16.54.109/s/

  • http://178.16.54.109/spmm/

Mutex

  • 8r68r6r

Attributes
  • user_agent

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/202.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36

Targets

    • Target
      file.exe
    • Size 10KB
    • SHA256 882cd8797f417c8898ee087d0ad158ac7b61ac41dd9cb82d0fd26cd55d7fe75e
    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
    Score
    10/10
    defense_evasiondiscoveryexecutionphorphiexxmrigloaderminerpersistencetrojanworm

    • Family: Phorphiex, Phorpiex

      Phorphiex or Phorpiex Malware family which infects systems to distribute other malicious payloads such as ransomware, stealers and cryptominers.

      wormtrojanloaderphorphiex

    • Family: xmrig

      XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform CPU/GPU miner.

      minerxmrig

    • XMRig Miner payload

      miner

    • Downloads MZ/PE file

    • Creates new service(s)

      persistenceexecution

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Stops running service(s)

      defense_evasionexecution

    • Adds Run key to start application

      persistence

    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

    behavioral1behavioral2

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

Reconnaissance

Resource Development

Initial Access

Execution

Command and Scripting Interpreter

1
T1059

Windows Command Shell

1
T1059.003

System Services

2
T1569

Service Execution

2
T1569.002

Persistence

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

1
T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1
T1547.001

Create or Modify System Process

2
T1543

Windows Service

2
T1543.003

Privilege Escalation

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution

1
T1547

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

1
T1547.001

Create or Modify System Process

2
T1543

Windows Service

2
T1543.003

Defense Evasion

Impair Defenses

1
T1562

Modify Registry

1
T1112

Credential Access

Discovery

System Information Discovery

1
T1082

System Location Discovery

1
T1614

System Language Discovery

1
T1614.001

System Network Configuration Discovery

1
T1016

Lateral Movement

Collection

Command and Control

Exfiltration

Impact

Service Stop

1
T1489

Tasks