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 4+ 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: 73. Detected as malicious: 58. Missed: 15. Coverage: 79.5%.

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 (50.03% 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

• T1027 – encrypt data using AES via x86 extensions
• T1082 – get system information on Windows
• T1129 – link function at runtime on Windows
• T1083 – get common file path
• T1059 – accept command line arguments
• T1129 – link many functions at runtime
• T1082 – get disk information
• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings
• T1027 – encode data using XOR
• T1057 – enumerate process modules
• T1007 – enumerate services
• T1027.005 – contain obfuscated stackstrings
• T1543.003 – stop service
• T1489 – stop service
• T1129 – parse PE header
• T1222 – set file attributes
• T1135 – enumerate network shares
• T1027 – encrypt data using speck
• T1082 – enumerate disk volumes
• T1027 – encode data using Base64
• T1083 – check if file exists
• T1082 – query environment variable
• T1027 – encrypt data using RC4 PRGA
• T1033 – get session user name
• T1087 – get session user name
• T1027 – encrypt data using Salsa20 or ChaCha
• T1007 – query service status
• T1543.003 – modify service
• T1569.002 – modify service
• 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.
• T1036 – Adversaries may attempt to manipulate features of their artifacts to make them appear legitimate or benign to users and/or security tools.
• T1055 – Adversaries may inject code into processes in order to evade process-based defenses as well as possibly elevate privileges.
• T1548 – Adversaries may circumvent mechanisms designed to control elevate privileges to gain higher-level permissions.
• T1542 – Adversaries may abuse Pre-OS Boot mechanisms as a way to establish persistence on a system.
• T1071 – Adversaries may communicate using application layer protocols to avoid detection/network filtering by blending in with existing traffic.
• T1106 – Adversaries may interact with the native OS application programming interface (API) to execute behaviors.
• T1059 – Detected command line output monitoring
• T1057 – The process has tried to detect the debugger probing the use of page guards.
• T1082 – The process likely attempted to detect a VM collecting informations on disks
• T1119 – The process likely attempted to detect a VM collecting informations on disks
• T1059 – Apparent Internal Usage of CMD.EXE
• T1063 – It Tries to detect injection methods
• T1059 – Sample may offer command line options, please run it with the command line option cookbook (it’s possible that the command line switches require additional characters like)
• T1059 – Sample might require command line arguments, analyze it with the command line cookbook
• T1574.002 – Tries to load missing DLLs
• T1036 – Creates files inside the user directory
• T1497 – Queries disk information (often used to detect virtual machines)
• T1562.001 – Creates guard pages, often used to prevent reverse engineering and debugging
• T1518.001 – Queries disk information (often used to detect virtual machines)
• T1518.001 – May try to detect the virtual machine to hinder analysis (VM artifact strings found in memory)
• T1082 – Queries disk information (often used to detect virtual machines)
• T1082 – Queries the volume information (name, serial number etc) of a device
• T1082 – Reads software policies
• T1095 – Performs DNS lookups
• T1071 – Performs DNS lookups
• T1090 – Found Tor onion address

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.