Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
137s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
01/11/2026, 19:48
General
- Target game-of-life-windows-setup.exe
- Size 2.7MB
- Sample261101-yjbfpscy21
- SHA256 dc45eaea515896fb14f3cc06e4b1b47a38d5dc4e565c4ca7ec3c4cbe445f896f
Malware Config
Signatures
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 1 IoCs
- Checks installed software on the system 1 TTPs
Looks up Uninstall key entries in the registry to enumerate software on the system.
- Drops file in Program Files directory 8 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Inno Setup is an open-source installation builder for Windows applications. 3 IoCs
Inno Setup installer
- Modifies registry class 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\game-of-life-windows-setup.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\game-of-life-windows-setup.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-R6I1TL1OKE.tmp\game-of-life-windows-setup.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-R6I1TL1OKE.tmp\game-of-life-windows-setup.tmp" /SL5="$60096,1673717,893952,C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\game-of-life-windows-setup.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files\GameOfLife\game_of_life.exe"C:\Program Files\GameOfLife\game_of_life.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
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C:\Windows\system32\OpenWith.exeC:\Windows\system32\OpenWith.exe -Embedding1⤵
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
README.md
SDL2.dll
game_of_life.exe
unins000.exe
game-of-life-windows-setup.tmp
memory/1196-36-0x00000000009A0000-0x0000000000DEB000-memory.dmp
memory/1196-11-0x00000000009A0000-0x0000000000DEB000-memory.dmp
memory/1196-8-0x00000000009A0000-0x0000000000DEB000-memory.dmp
memory/1196-9-0x0000000002EE0000-0x0000000002EE1000-memory.dmp
memory/1196-5-0x0000000002EE0000-0x0000000002EE1000-memory.dmp
memory/1196-42-0x00000000009A0000-0x0000000000DEB000-memory.dmp
memory/1696-0-0x0000000000870000-0x0000000000959000-memory.dmp
memory/1696-7-0x0000000000870000-0x0000000000959000-memory.dmp
memory/1696-43-0x0000000000870000-0x0000000000959000-memory.dmp
memory/4168-44-0x00007FFF24070000-0x00007FFF242C2000-memory.dmp