Overview
overview
7Static
static
3HORMACHUEL...up.exe
windows10-2004-x64
7HORMACHUEL...up.exe
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
7$PLUGINSDI...dl.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...dl.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...nu.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...nu.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...em.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...em.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...gs.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...gs.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...ec.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...ec.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...ls.dll
windows10-2004-x64
3$PLUGINSDI...ls.dll
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
3hormachuelos.exe
windows10-2004-x64
6hormachuelos.exe
windows11-ltsc_2024-x64
6Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
143s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en - resource tags
arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows - submitted
03/10/2026, 14:29
Static task
static1
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral2
Sample
HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral3
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/NSISdl.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral4
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/NSISdl.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral5
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/StartMenu.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral6
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/StartMenu.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral7
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/System.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral8
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/System.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral9
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsDialogs.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral10
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsDialogs.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral11
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsExec.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral12
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsExec.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral13
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsis_tauri_utils.dll
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral14
Sample
$PLUGINSDIR/nsis_tauri_utils.dll
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral15
Sample
hormachuelos.exe
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
Behavioral task
behavioral16
Sample
hormachuelos.exe
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
General
- Target HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe
- Size 7.1MB
- Sample261003-rtkc2a1x3j
- SHA256 b5719697f442b4c7bac9b8b175635b1a08e60ed166f4968fdff6b8ccdd3d7ab7
- MD5 b0dcbb1db2ca09e4e88ca7cfb464d82d
- SHA1 4ce510efbaf38c183f27457a8b99edfe25fe5d9c
- SHA512 6e874e1f8676ffb686c37a66ba808c8831856463d8d95d917427810f4fe882756f18d62cb5302964fd21d9e377252026e78d8cf8e70401804f1c3947f2141d67
- SSDEEP 196608:azB7hgAQ41IXXD1eHFBqgeVwz/3dnvDdZZcGbh1m8qJ:azBG41InBelBVbvd1m8qJ
- TLSH T18F7633603494E142D1325CF84D458B8870716E644C99EE6E76A0FF2EDFB6F00D7A1FAA
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Malware Config
Signatures
- Loads dropped DLL 8 IoCs
pid Process 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe - Checks installed software on the system 1 TTPs
Looks up Uninstall key entries in the registry to enumerate software on the system.
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 1 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
ioc Process \??\F:\ powershell.exe - Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Command interpreters often include specific commands/flags that ignore errors and other hangups.
pid Process 1276 powershell.exe - Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- 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.
description ioc Process Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language taskkill.exe Key opened \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\NLS\Language powershell.exe - Kills process with taskkill 1 IoCs
pid Process 3468 taskkill.exe - Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 5 IoCs
pid Process 1276 powershell.exe 1276 powershell.exe 1276 powershell.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
description pid Process Token: SeDebugPrivilege 3468 taskkill.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 1276 powershell.exe - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
description pid Process procid_target PID 696 wrote to memory of 3468 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 89 PID 696 wrote to memory of 1276 696 HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe 92
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\HORMACHUELOS-Setup.exe"1⤵
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:696 -
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\taskkill.exetaskkill /F /IM hormachuelos.exe2⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Kills process with taskkill
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:3468
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exepowershell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command "if (Get-Process hormachuelos -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { exit 1 } else { exit 0 }"2⤵
- Enumerates connected drives
- Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:1276
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\HORMACHUELOS\hormachuelos.exe
- Size 21.8MB
- SHA256 716209db4f900df3a2c7f03198f19712dc6b1c73aaee19cb865c4a3dd45947ac
- MD5 7cd883e9f497c5e0cd80ae5a13bdc5de
- SHA1 bb6c87e5c4d240213a4a9054278c3450056cf6d3
- SHA512 a5462a678250dc86e18f174ed8e4f7fcd6720ec6528aacc05e4ad684903f310215bb17e49fbeefc5e9f96d766cbb03598a8a64c4267a301644f3e065f4f51a82
- SSDEEP 196608:AbEUMDK8yr+WgUrNZssbNtNJvLnnlJd9pbR6aVXnN:+EUyKRaDUrNZnnn3ff6aVXN
- TLSH T19E3719116B6B98BCD186C87083478A730E2138DB1A36B9BF44C55A393F7DBF45B29319
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nse66.tmp\System.dll
- Size 12KB
- SHA256 8b4c47c4cf5e76ec57dd5a050d5acd832a0d532ee875d7b44f6cdaf68f90d37c
- MD5 9b38a1b07a0ebc5c7e59e63346ecc2db
- SHA1 97332a2ffcf12a3e3f27e7c05213b5d7faa13735
- SHA512 26e77f8e10f6d8693c92bd036b53a3f6e0c523090ef8dfe479815f556ecd2b57fc90ce9f7cceebe70460d464decb27ad1fe240819fd56997764e96506b6a439c
- SSDEEP 192:kjHcQ0qWTlt7wi5Aj/lM0sEWD/wtYbBjpNQybC7y+XZ40QPi:U/Qlt7wiij/lMRv/9V4b4r
- TLSH T1E8427C1297B089F2F151093419667F2A6FBEAC5D17F405A3CFE304C63D212CB9839243
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nse66.tmp\modern-wizard.bmp
- Size 150KB
- SHA256 809141e416ff03d804608828d3283dc563280c91ed72ed683857bc0dffde1f2a
- MD5 00275ba434c9023c4a267d8535e82aed
- SHA1 1f85a4cb1330f22f1baa2e50186ee8f0d9618807
- SHA512 f8ba89396c26778de8100363720afa5a0d05f0819af2beebcd3712f334196951f41028eba1e0af8686ec466e188df02cf21661ea08048d2c8a69f2e4b6f46fcc
- SSDEEP 768:d9FgLQKj66BKRs12m0cCPyPCJQdtU0WRWLWOWLYxWxW7WQWKBGm:HFgkUUsIm0XPyPmQdtUGtr
- TLSH T1EDE30178765832F42799C3D116D5F4E2372B446806267BE81A1CF02D243BFBF91BB968
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nse66.tmp\nsDialogs.dll
- Size 9KB
- SHA256 b1350f487692057c8ffde75dcc55287a52a3272240d4d4912f24464b27551fc0
- MD5 8f0e7415f33843431df308bb8e06af81
- SHA1 1314272e6ad3be1985d4a1607b890a34b0bde8b5
- SHA512 5450b2070c40b257c28ba9a472d762f91b78928d1e8d4d88e0576992065a61fb9a6513006e6b5947c415c9e02ae80a90a85b58da7e016a424331c8cd596ed684
- SSDEEP 96:obEv02zUu56FcS817eTaXx85qHFcUcxSgB5PKtAtoniJninnt3DVEB3YHNqkzfFc:obEvCu5e81785qHFcU0PuAw0uytIFc
- TLSH T19D12F892E2A454B3C5D6523B36AA2F2DCBBD5329B0927C01C7738E4D39395766E38343
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nse66.tmp\nsExec.dll
- Size 7KB
- SHA256 b121689861b506dbc9c3797b49bc8a90d555cb7db58cb959165cc758391c00bb
- MD5 8fe362ffdfa66269b8a64e3a87f68e52
- SHA1 b5daaa60a6b8591a670da9fc3a2d6f896d55f568
- SHA512 8f2904e01b0835683a0f11114a09da291ba527d867e73db2765185f780f2278debd9c5fc4281a42a6065c5ef5947bdc6239ae4c5835df62c71e1fce80d8bf942
- SSDEEP 96:JXzdzBzMDhOZZDbXf5GsWvSv1ckne94SDbYkvML1HT1fUNQaSGYuHnDQ:JgQHDb2vSuOc41ZfUNQZGdHD
- TLSH T1F8E1193571C02DF7E08D89707816BD2F83F4D43627BA05A04A771AD579D0AF6EE28B42
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nse66.tmp\nsis_tauri_utils.dll
- Size 33KB
- SHA256 5ba143b5db4a87d32d6e7802e033330aae56cbceabe0d1e3ba41948385ad4709
- MD5 948eaa3cb78c2dcdd9eb1ab120ae0f65
- SHA1 75197fee3c6a814fe035788d1c34ead39349b860
- SHA512 f7c511e8c73ef6ee9b72c88cd73b2d454a6ffc12144118df2276ea3f5c34175df0d9d15a435035575ca2b171789fe348d7a9028b702b47dda749ee17e03ae7c1
- SSDEEP 768:K/wOD4gzTVpAVk2h5Rsekk55aCukBFKpnp0jdhK7W+qVG:8wODZzTrAV5Oevq4DtXHVG
- TLSH T188F24A48FDC57EBAE2CF05710809467E4A6FC8081700C96BE3722EA3D5A67329ED525F
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH