Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    127s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    14/10/2026, 01:02

General

  • Target
    jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe
  • Size 836KB
  • Sample261014-bd7kmady9v
  • SHA256 eff25b91750923db9788c6d146b5732170c8596ae8edb706c69407999d3428fe
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 3 IoCs

    Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • Executes a command shell one-liner 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Execution of a cmd.exe one-liner (/c "close" or /k "keep") is a common script/loader stage.

  • Program crash 2 IoCs
  • 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.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 5 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jaffacakes118_HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4200
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
      cmd /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\\¸´¼þ nn.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes a command shell one-liner
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5116
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\¸´¼þ nn.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\\¸´¼þ nn.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Modifies registry class
        PID:2056
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 2056 -s 1100
          4⤵
          • Program crash
          PID:4988
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
      cmd /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\\Wowshell.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes a command shell one-liner
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3256
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Wowshell.exe
        C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\\Wowshell.exe
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
        • Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
        • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
        PID:2876
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 2876 -s 1336
          4⤵
          • Program crash
          PID:5756
  • C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe
    C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {9aa46009-3ce0-458a-a354-715610a075e6} -Embedding
    1⤵
      PID:4112
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
      C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 444 -p 2056 -ip 2056
      1⤵
        PID:1452
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
        C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 452 -p 2876 -ip 2876
        1⤵
          PID:3884

        Network

              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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              Downloads

              Wowshell.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Wowshell.exe
              • Size 736KB
              • SHA256 7ad759a50812a2feee1e6db7c1b1f85d87b76036cbf0dfff900793c8dc8a2232
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              Wowshell.xml

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Wowshell.xml
              • Size 546B
              • SHA256 728f08c8e2ab36756759eb127286ae09a52b79a69d27de2e3c9714a520fb0aa7
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              Wowshell.xml

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Wowshell.xml
              • Size 578B
              • SHA256 fdaf73a2bdb5606d493b783bb9aa331831299610c666d8eac41f7c907f0f8d17
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              ¸´¼þ nn.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\¸´¼þ nn.exe
              • Size 26KB
              • SHA256 b7a313ab2cda7f25db579609e69087140f436011bed52ed97ceb9770e5aa70ef
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              exeupdate.xml.zip

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Wowshell\exeupdate.xml.zip
              • Size 114B
              • SHA256 6dc9c7fc93bb488bb0520a6c780a8d3c0fb5486a4711aca49b4c53fac7393023
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              memory/2056-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000409000-memory.dmp

              memory/2056-23-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000409000-memory.dmp

              memory/4200-2-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D7000-memory.dmp