Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
143s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
30/09/2026, 12:19
General
- Target ExcludeGenFromDefender.exe
- Size 3.0MB
- Sample260930-phkhjsxape
- SHA256 3ffecb669baa188b7d8a1aca50dfc4b9f54cceb5e753d095c4512179e65f1fb8
Malware Config
Signatures
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.
- Prevents Microsoft Defender from scanning certain paths by adding an exclusion. 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Uses the Powershell Add-MpPreference cmdlet to exclude paths from being scanned by Microsoft Defender.
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 1 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ExcludeGenFromDefender.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ExcludeGenFromDefender.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CMD.EXE/c Powershell.exe Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\genresman'2⤵
- Prevents Microsoft Defender from scanning certain paths by adding an exclusion.
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exePowershell.exe Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\genresman'3⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Enumerates connected drives
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Defense Evasion
Hide Artifacts
1File/Path Exclusions
1Impair Defenses
1Disable or Modify Tools
1Replay Monitor
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Downloads
__PSScriptPolicyTest_1zccybj5.0ck.ps1
memory/3412-43-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071D000-memory.dmp
memory/3412-40-0x0000000000EC0000-0x0000000000EC1000-memory.dmp
memory/3412-0-0x0000000000EC0000-0x0000000000EC1000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-28-0x0000000006280000-0x000000000629E000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-30-0x0000000006C90000-0x0000000006D33000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-6-0x0000000005490000-0x00000000054F6000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-7-0x0000000005570000-0x00000000055D6000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-4-0x0000000004DF0000-0x0000000005418000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-15-0x0000000005660000-0x00000000059B4000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-16-0x0000000005C80000-0x0000000005C9E000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-17-0x0000000005CB0000-0x0000000005CFC000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-18-0x000000007F490000-0x000000007F4A0000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-19-0x0000000006240000-0x0000000006272000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-3-0x00000000047B0000-0x00000000047C0000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-29-0x00000000047B0000-0x00000000047C0000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-20-0x000000006FCC0000-0x000000006FD0C000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-5-0x0000000004CC0000-0x0000000004CE2000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-31-0x00000000075F0000-0x0000000007C6A000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-32-0x0000000006FA0000-0x0000000006FBA000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-33-0x0000000007020000-0x000000000702A000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-34-0x0000000007220000-0x00000000072B6000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-35-0x00000000071A0000-0x00000000071B1000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-36-0x00000000071D0000-0x00000000071DE000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-37-0x00000000071E0000-0x00000000071F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-38-0x00000000072E0000-0x00000000072FA000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-39-0x00000000072C0000-0x00000000072C8000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-2-0x00000000046E0000-0x0000000004716000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-1-0x00000000047B0000-0x00000000047C0000-memory.dmp