Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
75s - max time network
75s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
09/10/2026, 17:50
General
- Target svchost.exe
- Size 218KB
- Sample261009-we3chsdb89
- SHA256 643542451b6ebf0dc6ccb3b7bd7e60c75944cfc53fe52fb2622332e65bfbad71
Malware Config
Signatures
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Run Powershell to modify Windows Defender settings to add exclusions for file extensions, paths, and processes.
- Executes a file named after a Windows system binary 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
The file runs from a user directory while carrying the name of an executable that normally only exists in System32.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Enumerates video capture drivers 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Queries the legacy Video for Windows capture drivers. This is commonly abused by RATs to check for available webcams on the system before reporting to their C2.
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
The configured hostname and DNS domain identify the machine and are commonly collected to profile a host before it reports in.
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 12 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 64 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs
- Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs
The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost.exe"1⤵
- Executes a file named after a Windows system binary
- Enumerates video capture drivers
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\svchost.exe'2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'svchost.exe'2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\programData'2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess 'programData'2⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
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C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe"C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe" /create /f /RL HIGHEST /sc minute /mo 1 /tn "programData" /tr "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\programData"2⤵
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\programData"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\programData"1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
__PSScriptPolicyTest_zm2zl4wf.ztq.psm1
programData
memory/2288-52-0x00000180EFD20000-0x00000180F06C4000-memory.dmp
memory/4500-45-0x000002337D9B0000-0x000002337E354000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-4-0x00007FFB17F40000-0x00007FFB188E4000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-53-0x00007FFB17F40000-0x00007FFB188E4000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-0-0x0000000000FB0000-0x0000000000FEC000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-55-0x00007FFB17F40000-0x00007FFB188E4000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-5-0x00007FFB17F40000-0x00007FFB188E4000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-3-0x00007FFB17F40000-0x00007FFB188E4000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-2-0x00007FFB17F40000-0x00007FFB188E4000-memory.dmp
memory/5112-1-0x00007FFB180CF000-0x00007FFB180D0000-memory.dmp
memory/5740-38-0x00000278199A0000-0x000002781A344000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-11-0x00000192A63E0000-0x00000192A6402000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-30-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-19-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-22-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-21-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-26-0x00000192A6670000-0x00000192A6722000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-25-0x00000192A6410000-0x00000192A642E000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-27-0x00000192A6430000-0x00000192A643A000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-18-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-20-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-31-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-17-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-16-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-15-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-14-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-13-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-12-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-10-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-7-0x000001928D290000-0x000001928DC34000-memory.dmp
memory/5940-6-0x000001928DA2C000-0x000001928DA2D000-memory.dmp