Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    151s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    28/09/2026, 18:34

General

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

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

Signatures

  • Family: Phorphiex, Phorpiex

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

  • Family: xmrig

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

  • XMRig Miner payload 2 IoCs
  • Downloads MZ/PE file 7 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 10 IoCs
  • Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • 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.

  • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry 1 TTPs 16 IoCs

    The configured hostname and DNS domain identify the machine and are commonly collected to profile a host before it reports in.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 10 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 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 11 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\file.exe"
    1⤵
    • Downloads MZ/PE file
    • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:432
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3126130440.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3126130440.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:2732
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\220419307.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\220419307.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4964
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2106019969.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2106019969.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:3216
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3082730635.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3082730635.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5312
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2432641196.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2432641196.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5256
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2595819041.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2595819041.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:1020
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2759129654.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2759129654.exe
      2⤵
      • Downloads MZ/PE file
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Adds Run key to start application
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4696
      • C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
        C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:5708
      • C:\sysfrodolv.exe
        \sysfrodolv.exe
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:5344
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /c C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe -o 178.16.54.109:6060 -u 83h9mBvy1LL2qW6c2HeWczYVJQsFDF7RfVqDnaiSfFBdDcxfyJfWhRnZqZkY5chb5b6tmKZ1PPhuQbNgXggCdwTrMYWN8hi -p x --cpu-priority=5 --threads=2 --max-cpu-usage=25
          4⤵
          • Executes a command shell one-liner
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:3948
          • C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
            C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe -o 178.16.54.109:6060 -u 83h9mBvy1LL2qW6c2HeWczYVJQsFDF7RfVqDnaiSfFBdDcxfyJfWhRnZqZkY5chb5b6tmKZ1PPhuQbNgXggCdwTrMYWN8hi -p x --cpu-priority=5 --threads=2 --max-cpu-usage=25
            5⤵
            • Executes dropped EXE
            • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
            • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
            • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
            PID:1432

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        2106019969.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2106019969.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 c515019419a3ea506f0adec86ef45c9f8e786236324f96b8c7769b41f1948208
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        220419307.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\220419307.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 ce5102dbdb561d469ea91100b1fc7d8c800882df4d67a78d88fa9aeb7fd187bd
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        2432641196.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2432641196.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 09b94f3a07f29998b71f3ed7ead8ebdd754d4e918b4112248a19e69d9715f4de
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        2595819041.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2595819041.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 8849b6f4a97c8e33640f85319cbff7446d7969225d37179ca91900b92cad33ad
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        2759129654.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2759129654.exe
        • Size 12KB
        • SHA256 01f64c61767bc41f039cf2080e61da49c96b14e4d558da6c03128e40ca816799
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        3082730635.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3082730635.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 0decf104ecf4e26c41e4b852deafd3b1dcec928be7fc5508f072b889ab767179
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        3126130440.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3126130440.exe
        • Size 18KB
        • SHA256 15eb799f44da58693e6c43fdbd894299e02308c9f6cae8f8e00b8fc8176fc754
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        sysmgnrsv.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\sysmgnrsv.exe
        • Size 6.2MB
        • SHA256 001816f728d96a823a88e8243cba32486ff0207c123628fa767073bb4a49cd6e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/5708-49-0x000001EC495B0000-0x000001EC495D0000-memory.dmp