Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
145s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows - submitted
02/11/2026, 20:48
Static task
static1
1 signatures
Behavioral task
behavioral1
Sample
CodexInitKit.exe
Resource
win10v2004-20260911-en
6 signatures
150 seconds
Behavioral task
behavioral2
Sample
CodexInitKit.exe
Resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
5 signatures
150 seconds
General
- Target CodexInitKit.exe
- Size 900KB
- Sample261102-zlrfdaft4k
- SHA256 82a955816f88ebf513791b62982e626e3044cdc206f12053d3705cda68e43986
- MD5 3ff1e794dbf9757e58d3d6aabeb0d3c5
- SHA1 e1b266693cadbd973ea7e72136f38491cdad3535
- SHA512 c90743a4d63266af178390c1bebbcf91ebc5c931ee5e37ed022a10648a45a8f4cafa7d256a437b7b8f3227d9f1e20e263772771092c4fea004f1537e59b7144e
- SSDEEP 12288:tqv0dmz85enmUFFedCUO3mC0P72A3CgTN1dbvnL189zrs2Fjl:Fn4fFFedCUO2H7znLazrHl
- TLSH T188156A213BD95D54E2FB0B7A18F801809A3F3A5B45349A9C744E81CC0FB57948AF5BBB
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
7/10
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
description ioc Process Key value queried \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-1846164713-4096795028-774071693-1000\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation CodexInitKit.exe -
pid Process 2124 powershell.exe - Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 3 IoCs
pid Process 2124 powershell.exe 2124 powershell.exe 2124 powershell.exe - Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
description pid Process Token: SeDebugPrivilege 4040 CodexInitKit.exe Token: SeDebugPrivilege 2124 powershell.exe - Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
description pid Process procid_target PID 4040 wrote to memory of 2472 4040 CodexInitKit.exe 87 PID 2472 wrote to memory of 2124 2472 CodexInitKit.exe 88
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\CodexInitKit.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\CodexInitKit.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:4040 -
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\CodexInitKit.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\CodexInitKit.exe" --worker status 58d1d6b08beb45c19edea028d0e86c79 C 0 0 S-1-5-21-1846164713-4096795028-774071693-1000 eyJmb2xkZXJNYW5hZ2VtZW50Ijp0cnVlLCJhbnRpT3ZlckRlZmVuc2UiOnRydWUsIm1lbW9yaWVzIjp0cnVlLCJnaXRodWJNaXJyb3JFbmFibGVkIjp0cnVlLCJjdXN0b21HaXRodWJNaXJyb3IiOiIiLCJzdWJhZ2VudHMiOmZhbHNlLCJjdWFSZXBhaXIiOnRydWUsImJyb3dzZXJSZXBhaXIiOnRydWUsIm9mZmljaWFsQ2xpVXBkYXRlIjp0cnVlLCJkZXNrdG9wVXBkYXRlIjp0cnVlLCJwYXJlbnRNb2RlbCI6ImdwdC02LjEtc29sIiwiY2hpbGRNb2RlbCI6ImdwdC02LjEtc29sIiwicGFyZW50RWZmb3J0IjoibWVkaXVtIiwiY2hpbGRFZmZvcnQiOiJtZWRpdW0iLCJwcm94eUhvc3QiOiIxMjcuMC4wLjEiLCJjbGlNb2RlIjoiZGVza3RvcC1uYXRpdmUifQ==2⤵
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
PID:2472 -
C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\CodexInitKit\Desktop\Jobs\58d1d6b08beb45c19edea028d0e86c79\Backend.ps1" -Operation "status" -PayloadRoot "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\CodexInitKit\Desktop\Jobs\58d1d6b08beb45c19edea028d0e86c79" -Drive "C" -ProxyPort 0 -OptionsBase64 "eyJmb2xkZXJNYW5hZ2VtZW50Ijp0cnVlLCJhbnRpT3ZlckRlZmVuc2UiOnRydWUsIm1lbW9yaWVzIjp0cnVlLCJnaXRodWJNaXJyb3JFbmFibGVkIjp0cnVlLCJjdXN0b21HaXRodWJNaXJyb3IiOiIiLCJzdWJhZ2VudHMiOmZhbHNlLCJjdWFSZXBhaXIiOnRydWUsImJyb3dzZXJSZXBhaXIiOnRydWUsIm9mZmljaWFsQ2xpVXBkYXRlIjp0cnVlLCJkZXNrdG9wVXBkYXRlIjp0cnVlLCJwYXJlbnRNb2RlbCI6ImdwdC02LjEtc29sIiwiY2hpbGRNb2RlbCI6ImdwdC02LjEtc29sIiwicGFyZW50RWZmb3J0IjoibWVkaXVtIiwiY2hpbGRFZmZvcnQiOiJtZWRpdW0iLCJwcm94eUhvc3QiOiIxMjcuMC4wLjEiLCJjbGlNb2RlIjoiZGVza3RvcC1uYXRpdmUifQ=="3⤵
- Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
PID:2124
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\CodexInitKit\Desktop\Jobs\58d1d6b08beb45c19edea028d0e86c79\Backend.ps1
- Size 81KB
- SHA256 b0b640511bdfc8552edd8be506dc370f0c69c7cf4ff6efe733219646fb355fe5
- MD5 2e17cf5f810131c12ab317fd6f844540
- SHA1 4e264e9a26b38b2a104de2ada19ad77114c2618b
- SHA512 3ca9ae7fa24513c79d379fee097b6f4afa086f9bf9eb7432f1073d12933ca0793f0fd56ca44e18c500efbcac209e5fed2f7129afe3059fd64de109a9bd4e20d9
- SSDEEP 1536:3GN6ZmQkxqLrIE5TpYloLoK1Irjx4Q2PM4E64E4W4u4V4v4b4t4x4q4p4K47rFrd:3vmpqxT6sOkBD84qKb6xLVzP
- TLSH T185833B023A42956946C7127B9C9A9150BB3E411FA85C09A4F1FCC3C85FA6B7CC7FAF61
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\CodexInitKit\Desktop\Jobs\58d1d6b08beb45c19edea028d0e86c79\Backend220.ps1
- Size 28KB
- SHA256 91535bd226998754d80829df4d09e7d3c5096f2f0464346a798e1eb5d6597f30
- MD5 d10bdee10dc5bf4218f55ac4539c97ad
- SHA1 119c581469086b63ceef87296fb322476b5386df
- SHA512 59906c0ade1b2469ddffb6d238fbee138a11d80ce802878062daac148f8a14e23683d2400b01c37ed1efa34b747bbcd3ac29cf856f789f555887d611869f1872
- SSDEEP 768:S32BmWuw1fvqsZpEaIxoji5Lrc71p6+PY:RTnLm5Lw71Av
- TLSH T118D208EEB648552406C3055D65BF91107B2A182FA98D0C10BEEED6C92FC462CC6DFB6F
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\CodexInitKit\Desktop\Jobs\58d1d6b08beb45c19edea028d0e86c79\DesktopCoreRecovery.ps1
- Size 12KB
- SHA256 8470a9b91100ccb9f5c9fa13fa6f1d7216b1498f7e582cad023e5a5f96e1f1ac
- MD5 21d6bb8db1cbdeb2088fa43221aa18ae
- SHA1 0cf4feaacddf330a1b75773798f14f83d2c58502
- SHA512 7b82616436c3a8d454ccd533eaf2aeeaad1a7fba6e9b0eb80224d69a28b7b3ce002ab867440f7e301b6bf9c9736335c3cdbfd653085c758223d2aeb6668f1c30
- SSDEEP 384:kO4+Wrqs6WiiSSdRLrmobnvLvScgsiqfG:Mtfjg13
- TLSH T1E742A26B398456A0518718BD00975000632B449FD5DC1928FEADE24C7FC56BCAABEFBE
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\CodexInitKit\Desktop\Logs\58d1d6b08beb45c19edea028d0e86c79.log
- Size 967B
- SHA256 2f15c1744d63162b0955262488dff7be6807361f896b1bef6f3c78885ccbec08
- MD5 4b3b457f56604262121fd9c1fd86fb35
- SHA1 9f94ff6ab7c51db5d23be780fbaa7fcf90b9ab1c
- SHA512 de88a1db4f8ac08858cf7b0e8d54af27d3afc244f6248f22435e9fb0ab22430f8a1276bbc130263e39a5914f2c43da1128ca9d31546b0035c409d99e21e12ed7
- TLSH T1BA11CE69568DCDBDA9902552E33A7E1BCAFC8E4A31F06814C9CC8E8825C252C8426D17
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH
- Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\__PSScriptPolicyTest_2omfudzb.3x5.ps1
- Size 60B
- SHA256 96ad1146eb96877eab5942ae0736b82d8b5e2039a80d3d6932665c1a4c87dcf7
- MD5 d17fe0a3f47be24a6453e9ef58c94641
- SHA1 6ab83620379fc69f80c0242105ddffd7d98d5d9d
- SHA512 5b592e58f26c264604f98f6aa12860758ce606d1c63220736cf0c779e4e18e3cec8706930a16c38b20161754d1017d1657d35258e58ca22b18f5b232880dec82
- TLSH T177A02228CC303B200020C0080A000002C00B800C080C8C0220000A00B20B820002F080
- MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH