Executive Overview — What We’re Dealing With

This specimen has persisted long enough to matter. Human experts classified it as Malware, and the telemetry confirms a capable, evasive Trojan with real impact potential.

Extended Dwell Time Impact

For 2+ hours, this malware remained undetected — a limited but sufficient window for the adversary to complete initial execution and establish basic system access.

Global Detection Posture — Who Caught It, Who Missed It

VirusTotal engines: 72. Detected as malicious: 51. Missed: 21. Coverage: 70.8%.

Why it matters: if any endpoint relies solely on a missed engine, this malware can operate with zero alerts. Prevention‑first controls close that gap regardless of signature lag.

Behavioral Storyline — How the Malware Operates

Intensive file system activity (74.04% of behavior) indicates data harvesting, file encryption, or dropper behavior. The threat is actively searching for and manipulating files across the system.

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

• T1083 – get common file path
• T1057 – enumerate process modules
• T1129 – link function at runtime on Windows
• T1083 – get file size
• T1129 – parse PE header
• T1059 – accept command line arguments
• T1082 – query environment variable
• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings targeting Xen
• T1129 – link many functions at runtime
• T1083 – enumerate files on Windows
• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings targeting Qemu
• T1082 – get disk information
• T1083 – enumerate files recursively
• T1027 – encode data using XOR
• T1014 – Adversaries may use rootkits to hide the presence of programs, files, network connections, services, drivers, and other system components.
• T1542.003 – Adversaries may use bootkits to persist on systems.
• T1564 – Adversaries may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection.
• T1202 – Adversaries may abuse utilities that allow for command execution to bypass security restrictions that limit the use of command-line interpreters.
• T1055 – Adversaries may inject code into processes in order to evade process-based defenses as well as possibly elevate privileges.
• T1542 – Adversaries may abuse Pre-OS Boot mechanisms as a way to establish persistence on a system.
• T1027 – Adversaries may attempt to make an executable or file difficult to discover or analyze by encrypting, encoding, or otherwise obfuscating its contents on the system or in transit.
• T1027.002 – Adversaries may perform software packing or virtual machine software protection to conceal their code.
• T1564.001 – Adversaries may set files and directories to be hidden to evade detection mechanisms.
• T1082 – An adversary may attempt to get detailed information about the operating system and hardware, including version, patches, hotfixes, service packs, and architecture.
• T1071 – Adversaries may communicate using application layer protocols to avoid detection/network filtering by blending in with existing traffic.
• T1573 – Adversaries may employ a known encryption algorithm to conceal command and control traffic rather than relying on any inherent protections provided by a communication protocol.
• T1005 – Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems and configuration files or local databases, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
• T1059 – Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.
• T1486 – Adversaries may encrypt data on target systems or on large numbers of systems in a network to interrupt availability to system and network resources.
• T1496 – Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems in order to solve resource intensive problems, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability.
• T1485 – Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.
• T1574.002 – Tries to load missing DLLs
• T1070.006 – Binary contains a suspicious time stamp
• T1518.001 – May try to detect the virtual machine to hinder analysis (VM artifact strings found in memory)
• T1082 – Queries the volume information (name, serial number etc) of a device
• T1082 – Reads software policies
• T1016 – Checks the online ip address of the machine
• T1095 – Performs DNS lookups
• T1071 – Performs DNS lookups

Following the Trail — Network & DNS Activity

Outbound activity leans on reputable infrastructure (e.g., CDNs, cloud endpoints) to blend in. TLS sessions and
HTTP calls show routine beaconing and IP‑lookup behavior that can masquerade as normal browsing.

Hunting tip: alert on unknown binaries initiating TLS to IP‑lookup services or unusual CDN endpoints — especially early in execution.