Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    150s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    27/10/2026, 12:08

General

  • Target
    vs_Community.exe
  • Size 4.2MB
  • Sample261027-pbb8lacy41
  • SHA256 f88a66f11051066d202c70a2405962be83767d53399a5616ef652c466f6c2005
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
5/10

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 21 IoCs
  • 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.

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs

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

  • Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.

  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vs_Community.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vs_Community.exe"
    1⤵
    • Checks computer location settings
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4916
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe" --env "_SFX_CAB_EXE_PACKAGE:C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vs_Community.exe _SFX_CAB_EXE_ORIGINALWORKINGDIR:C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Checks processor information in registry
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4616
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\getmac.exe
        "getmac"
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:2912

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        vs_setup_bootstrapper_202610271212380542.json

        • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\_bootstrapper\vs_setup_bootstrapper_202610271212380542.json
        • Size 162B
        • SHA256 9d5e71f0886d643b5baba0c06c92be316bc42e0c268d6d94c730bd5c4260e44b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        20261027121311_94e66f294c86464b9f4fb17e502bd60b.trn

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSApplicationInsights\vstelf3e86b4023cc43f0be495508d51f588a\20261027121311_94e66f294c86464b9f4fb17e502bd60b.trn
        • Size 6KB
        • SHA256 9a76008cd47369be6e3cd318dcbdfbb0ebff2bc4f014f63f73e599535e2b3957
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.C2RSignatureReader.Interop.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.C2RSignatureReader.Interop.dll
        • Size 19KB
        • SHA256 2bb57064fbf93cb2186285f6904f2c8c27d2ec47d6f60f72887eade0111cf5ed
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.C2RSignatureReader.Native.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.C2RSignatureReader.Native.dll
        • Size 115KB
        • SHA256 88c2019ae122af3f4ef085462929a0f3bd9262ec62223cb33c865069ba7996e2
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.VisualStudio.RemoteControl.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.RemoteControl.dll
        • Size 46KB
        • SHA256 cc52e19735d6152702672feb5911c8ba77f60fdc73df5ed0d601b37415f3a7ed
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Common.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Common.dll
        • Size 581KB
        • SHA256 1132e1ebe46a61cac9a28a600cf56eeb1e31dcaca5b63bd8688250b703e6e2ec
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.dll
        • Size 307KB
        • SHA256 710b1ccb90789752caece9513d9b51981df49c54253773122b04d4a185b3fb15
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.dll
        • Size 1.4MB
        • SHA256 140cc656808ab6ad94d21690ba7c4f3f7d5b6dd441689f7fff84e61d20b2679e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.dll
        • Size 1012KB
        • SHA256 7b409e6d96f602671f08243d0ed649e1c833271a331af2059f00add59a12140f
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities.Internal.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities.Internal.dll
        • Size 61KB
        • SHA256 4d1d5efd28d72c332ba87e1993cb35e46404753543c5563700b98a97aa3c42a6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Newtonsoft.Json.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Newtonsoft.Json.dll
        • Size 705KB
        • SHA256 ea0a94ade9f2b1e4143d37e286379f7c45f8e6c1ccb035f550467fa0ad1e058e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        System.Memory.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\System.Memory.dll
        • Size 138KB
        • SHA256 bf3fb84664f4097f1a8a9bc71a51dcf8cf1a905d4080a4d290da1730866e856f
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll
        • Size 17KB
        • SHA256 37768488e8ef45729bc7d9a2677633c6450042975bb96516e186da6cb9cd0dcf
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        detection.json

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\detection.json
        • Size 8KB
        • SHA256 c828a2e5b4045ce36ecf5b49d33d6404c9d6f865df9b3c9623787c2332df07d9
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        vs_setup_bootstrapper.config

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.config
        • Size 617B
        • SHA256 88b3aa65774d0d9e96e51ac2055e6233345aa43dbf85e95d554b8d7a29e5aa88
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe
        • Size 404KB
        • SHA256 d0216844b3c6ce67e0d4c3bafcb7607728753a928b04df5ea212d27045f9e4d0
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe.config

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ba5a847e54603142f31449b\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe.config
        • Size 3KB
        • SHA256 7314eb4bf1be5d751eb7a7939921972b7b34b58ce7aac743c82bbdded66f9236
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        memory/4616-164-0x0000000006570000-0x0000000006592000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-172-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-166-0x0000000006EA0000-0x0000000006F06000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-167-0x00000000074F0000-0x00000000075AA000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-165-0x00000000065A0000-0x00000000068F4000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-168-0x0000000007750000-0x00000000077E2000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-148-0x0000000005ED0000-0x0000000005EF6000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-152-0x0000000005C90000-0x0000000005C98000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-136-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-144-0x0000000005C50000-0x0000000005C64000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-135-0x00000000059D0000-0x0000000005A20000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-140-0x0000000005F90000-0x0000000006042000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-131-0x0000000005890000-0x0000000005898000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-127-0x0000000005AD0000-0x0000000005BD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-119-0x00000000054E0000-0x000000000564A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-123-0x0000000005930000-0x00000000059C4000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-170-0x0000000007DA0000-0x0000000008344000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-156-0x0000000006270000-0x0000000006280000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-173-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-174-0x000000000A6C0000-0x000000000A6C8000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-175-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-176-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-177-0x000000000AF10000-0x000000000AF18000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-178-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-179-0x000000000AF20000-0x000000000B020000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-181-0x000000000BC60000-0x000000000BC98000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-182-0x000000000A6B0000-0x000000000A6BE000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-184-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-185-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-186-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-189-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-190-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-191-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-192-0x0000000005CC0000-0x0000000005CD0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-193-0x000000000AF20000-0x000000000B020000-memory.dmp

        memory/4616-115-0x00000000009E0000-0x0000000000A48000-memory.dmp