Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    02/11/2026, 10:38

General

  • Target
    $R0/Uninstall MALVO Chat.exe
  • Size 220KB
  • Sample261102-mpk2jsvt8n
  • SHA256 6de39dec672ca3687187839984f39468af460cceb48b2baf9e0f279f6d061a15
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 14 IoCs
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell 1 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Using powershell.exe command.

  • Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Command interpreters often include specific commands/flags that ignore errors and other hangups.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

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

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 6 IoCs

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

  • Kills process with taskkill 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 25 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\Uninstall MALVO Chat.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\Uninstall MALVO Chat.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4928
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe" _?=C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\$R0\
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Loads dropped DLL
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4120
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\taskkill.exe
        taskkill /F /T /IM "MALVO Chat.exe"
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Kills process with taskkill
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:4588
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -NonInteractive -C "if (Get-Command Get-CimInstance -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { exit 0 } else { exit 1 }"
        3⤵
        • Hide Artifacts: Ignore Process Interrupts
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:5292
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -NonInteractive -C "if ((Get-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process) -eq 'Restricted') { exit 1 } else { exit 0 }"
        3⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:932
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -NonInteractive -C "if ((Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Process | ? {$_.Path -and $_.Path.StartsWith('C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\MALVO Chat', 'CurrentCultureIgnoreCase')}).Count -gt 0) { exit 0 } else { exit 1 }"
        3⤵
        • Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:3608

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 17KB
        • SHA256 26b5a37840f9c18df5f5b43477c8be72b2b3535441ee19029b7efeea41e2d3aa
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        StartupProfileData-NonInteractive

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\StartupProfileData-NonInteractive
        • Size 16KB
        • SHA256 755b79c0492389ed423258c17dd3c32d1815e2861b956ddb23cf229c44317444
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        __PSScriptPolicyTest_35a2wz15.g3j.ps1

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_35a2wz15.g3j.ps1
        • Size 60B
        • SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        StdUtils.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsw6DA5.tmp\StdUtils.dll
        • Size 100KB
        • SHA256 b72e9013a6204e9f01076dc38dabbf30870d44dfc66962adbf73619d4331601e
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        System.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsw6DA5.tmp\System.dll
        • Size 12KB
        • SHA256 3eb38ae99653a7dbc724132ee240f6e5c4af4bfe7c01d31d23faf373f9f2eaca
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        UAC.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsw6DA5.tmp\UAC.dll
        • Size 14KB
        • SHA256 2f7f8fc05dc4fd0d5cda501b47e4433357e887bbfed7292c028d99c73b52dc08
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        WinShell.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsw6DA5.tmp\WinShell.dll
        • Size 3KB
        • SHA256 9be85b986ea66a6997dde658abe82b3147ed2a1a3dcb784bb5176f41d22815a6
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        modern-wizard.bmp

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsw6DA5.tmp\modern-wizard.bmp
        • Size 150KB
        • SHA256 31aeac7f28ecc797ab95d78e2652f77b4f8e7bf37d5bc0aecbe1619dc437c02d
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        nsDialogs.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsw6DA5.tmp\nsDialogs.dll
        • Size 9KB
        • SHA256 1e40211af65923c2f4fd02ce021458a7745d28e2f383835e3015e96575632172
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        nsExec.dll

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nsw6DA5.tmp\nsExec.dll
        • Size 6KB
        • SHA256 5d9ceb1ce5f35aea5f9e5a0c0edeeec04dfefe0c77890c80c70e98209b58b962
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        Un_A.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\~nsuA.tmp\Un_A.exe
        • Size 220KB
        • SHA256 6de39dec672ca3687187839984f39468af460cceb48b2baf9e0f279f6d061a15
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        memory/932-61-0x000000006FEF0000-0x000000006FF3C000-memory.dmp

        memory/932-59-0x0000000005E30000-0x000000000618B000-memory.dmp

        memory/932-65-0x0000000007860000-0x0000000007871000-memory.dmp

        memory/932-64-0x0000000007900000-0x0000000007996000-memory.dmp

        memory/3608-74-0x000000006FEF0000-0x000000006FF3C000-memory.dmp

        memory/3608-72-0x0000000005660000-0x00000000059BB000-memory.dmp

        memory/3608-77-0x0000000070100000-0x000000007045B000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-34-0x0000000005A80000-0x0000000005AE6000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-42-0x000000006FEF0000-0x000000006FF3C000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-38-0x0000000005C30000-0x0000000005F8B000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-48-0x00000000070B0000-0x00000000070CA000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-49-0x00000000073E0000-0x00000000073EA000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-50-0x0000000007580000-0x00000000075AA000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-51-0x00000000075B0000-0x00000000075D4000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-52-0x0000000070050000-0x00000000703AB000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-45-0x0000000006FD0000-0x0000000006FF0000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-46-0x00000000072E0000-0x0000000007383000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-41-0x0000000007010000-0x0000000007046000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-40-0x0000000006040000-0x000000000608C000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-39-0x0000000005FF0000-0x000000000600E000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-47-0x0000000007A10000-0x000000000808C000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-35-0x0000000005AF0000-0x0000000005B56000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-33-0x0000000005150000-0x0000000005172000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-32-0x00000000053C0000-0x0000000005A0A000-memory.dmp

        memory/5292-31-0x0000000002B00000-0x0000000002B36000-memory.dmp