Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
138s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-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 22 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
memory/2308-15-0x0000000007590000-0x00000000075C6000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-22-0x0000000007D80000-0x00000000083FC000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-2-0x0000000002B80000-0x0000000002BB6000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-3-0x0000000073E80000-0x000000007463C000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-4-0x00000000055B0000-0x0000000005BFA000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-5-0x0000000073E80000-0x000000007463C000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-6-0x0000000005C50000-0x0000000005C72000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-8-0x0000000005D60000-0x0000000005DC6000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-7-0x0000000005CF0000-0x0000000005D56000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-11-0x0000000005F20000-0x000000000627B000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-12-0x00000000063D0000-0x00000000063EE000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-13-0x0000000006410000-0x000000000645C000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-14-0x0000000073E80000-0x000000007463C000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-16-0x0000000070170000-0x00000000701BC000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-1-0x0000000073E92000-0x0000000073E93000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-20-0x0000000073E80000-0x000000007463C000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-31-0x0000000073E80000-0x000000007463C000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-21-0x0000000007600000-0x00000000076A3000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-23-0x0000000007740000-0x000000000775A000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-19-0x00000000075D0000-0x00000000075F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-24-0x00000000077B0000-0x00000000077BA000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-25-0x00000000079B0000-0x0000000007A46000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-29-0x0000000073E80000-0x000000007463C000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-27-0x0000000073E92000-0x0000000073E93000-memory.dmp
memory/2308-28-0x0000000073E80000-0x000000007463C000-memory.dmp
memory/2644-26-0x0000000000A30000-0x0000000000A31000-memory.dmp
memory/2644-0-0x0000000000A30000-0x0000000000A31000-memory.dmp
memory/2644-32-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071D000-memory.dmp
memory/2644-33-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071D000-memory.dmp