Overview

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Static

static

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Alkaid.exe

windows10-2004-x64

10

Alkaid.exe

windows11-ltsc_2024-x64

10

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General

  • Target
    Alkaid.exe
  • Size 3.0MB
  • Sample260930-rlgbea113r
  • SHA256 3e029ec6feda667643596a708d40e3e659947a300e71168b93af093750948d7b
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
10/10
xmrigdefense_evasionexecutionminerpersistence

Malware Config

Targets

    • Target
      Alkaid.exe
    • Size 3.0MB
    • SHA256 3e029ec6feda667643596a708d40e3e659947a300e71168b93af093750948d7b
    • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
    Score
    10/10
    defense_evasionexecutionxmrigminerpersistence

    • Family: xmrig

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

      minerxmrig

    • XMRig Miner payload

      miner

    • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

      Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.

      execution

    • Creates new service(s)

      persistenceexecution

    • Executes dropped EXE

    • Stops running service(s)

      defense_evasionexecution

    • Enumerates connected drives

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

    • Drops file in System32 directory

    • Suspicious use of SetThreadContext

    behavioral1behavioral2

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

Tasks