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 3+ 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: 42. Missed: 31. Coverage: 57.5%.

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

This threat shows heavy registry manipulation (44.14% of total behavior), indicating persistent backdoor installation, configuration tampering, or system policy modification attempts. The malware likely establishes persistence mechanisms and modifies security settings to maintain long-term access.

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

• T1614 – get geographical location
• T1082 – query environment variable
• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings targeting VirtualBox
• T1129 – link function at runtime on Windows
• T1083 – enumerate files on Windows
• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings targeting VMWare
• T1129 – parse PE header
• T1129 – access PEB ldr_data
• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings targeting Xen
• T1027 – encode data using XOR
• T1083 – get common file path
• T1027 – reference Base64 string
• T1027 – encode data using Base64
• T1057 – get process filename
• T1012 – query or enumerate registry value
• T1003 – Accessed credential storage registry keys
• T1548.002 – Attempts to disable UAC
• T1564 – A process created a hidden window
• T1202 – Uses suspicious command line tools or Windows utilities
• T1202 – Uses Windows utilities for basic functionality
• T1036 – A file was accessed within the Public folder.
• T1112 – Creates or sets a registry key to a long series of bytes, possibly to store a binary or malware config
• T1112 – Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup
• T1112 – Attempts to disable UAC
• T1548 – Attempts to disable UAC
• T1548 – A file was accessed within the Public folder.
• T1064 – Attempts to execute suspicious powershell command arguments
• T1064 – A scripting utility was executed
• T1027 – The binary contains an unknown PE section name indicative of packing
• T1027 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1564.003 – A process created a hidden window
• T1027.002 – The binary contains an unknown PE section name indicative of packing
• T1027.002 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1547 – Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup
• T1547.001 – Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup
• T1082 – Checks available memory
• T1082 – Collects information to fingerprint the system
• T1057 – Enumerates running processes
• T1057 – Expresses interest in specific running processes
• T1057 – Repeatedly searches for a not-found process, may want to run with startbrowser=1 option
• T1012 – Collects information to fingerprint the system
• T1071 – Starts servers listening on 127.0.0.1:0
• T1071 – Yara detections observed in process dumps, payloads or dropped files
• T1071 – The PE file contains an overlay
• T1071 – A HTTP/S link was seen in a script or command line
• T1071 – Performs HTTP requests potentially not found in PCAP.
• T1071 – Reads from the memory of another process
• T1071 – Attempts to connect to a dead IP:Port
• T1573 – Establishes an encrypted HTTPS connection
• T1106 – Guard pages use detected – possible anti-debugging.
• T1059 – A scripting utility was executed
• T1059 – Executed a command line with /V argument which modifies variable behaviour and whitespace allowing for increased obfuscation options
• T1059 – A HTTP/S link was seen in a script or command line
• T1059 – Attempts to execute suspicious powershell command arguments
• T1059 – Executed a very long command line or script command which may be indicative of chained commands or obfuscation
• T1059.001 – Attempts to execute suspicious powershell command arguments
• T1027.002 – Resolves API functions dynamically
• T1057 – Enumerates running processes
• T1071.004 – Performs DNS request
• T1095 – Connects to remote host
• T1095 – Sets up server that accepts incoming connections
• T1112 – Installs system startup script or application
• T1112 – Bypasses Windows User Account Control (UAC)
• T1129 – Loads a dropped DLL
• T1547.001 – Installs system startup script or application
• T1564.003 – Creates process with hidden window
• T1571 – Tries to connect using an uncommon port
• T1095 – Unsuccessful connections attempts were detected (with 3 different IP:Port)
• T1129 – The process attempted to dynamically load a malicious function
• T1059 – Detected command line output monitoring
• T1057 – The process may have looked for a particular process running on the system
• T1095 – The process started one or more servers (listening on address 127.0.0.1:0)
• T1564.003 – Detected the creation of a hidden window (common execution hiding technique)
• T1057 – The process has tried to detect the debugger probing the use of page guards.
• T1057 – The process searched for a process without success: maybe some not-found process was needed (browser?)
• T1129 – The process tried to load dynamically one or more functions.
• T1027.009 – The process has executed a dropped binary
• T1071 – Detected one or more anomalous HTTP requests
• T1071 – Detected HTTP requests to some non white-listed domains
• T1057 – The process attempted to detect a running debugger using common APIs
• T1082 – Queries for the computername
• T1129 – Detected the execution of a powershell command with one or more suspicious parameter
• T1027 – Detected the execution of a powershell command with one or more suspicious parameter
• T1086 – Detected the execution of a powershell command with one or more suspicious parameter
• T1112 – The process attempted to alter the User Account Control policies
• T1088 – The process attempted to alter the User Account Control policies
• T1082 – The process tried to collect informations about the system reading some known registry keys
• T1012 – The process tried to collect informations about the system reading some known registry keys
• T1086 – Detected some PowerShell commands executions
• T1105 – Dropping suspicious files
• T1071 – Dropping suspicious files
• T1050 – The process has tried to set its autorun on the system startup
• T1060 – The process has tried to set its autorun on the system startup
• T1112 – The process has tried to set its autorun on the system startup
• T1063 – It Tries to detect injection methods
• T1027.009 – Drops interesting files and uses them
• T1064 – Tries to download and execute files (via powershell)
• T1064 – Executes batch files
• T1091 – Checks for available system drives (often done to infect USB drives)
• T1059 – Uses cmd line tools excessively to alter registry or file data
• T1059 – Very long cmdline option found, this is very uncommon (may be encrypted or packed)
• T1059.001 – Suspicious powershell command line found
• T1547.001 – Creates an autostart registry key
• T1547.001 – Creates multiple autostart registry keys
• T1036 – Creates files inside the user directory
• T1562.001 – Disables UAC (registry)
• T1112 – Uses reg.exe to modify the Windows registry
• T1112 – Stores large binary data to the registry
• T1497 – Sleep loop found (likely to delay execution)
• T1497 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1497 – May sleep (evasive loops) to hinder dynamic analysis
• T1056 – Installs a global mouse hook
• T1056 – Creates a DirectInput object (often for capturing keystrokes)
• T1518.001 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1518.001 – Tries to download and execute files (via powershell)
• T1057 – Queries a list of all running processes
• T1120 – Checks for available system drives (often done to infect USB drives)
• T1120 – Sample is looking for USB drives. Launch the sample with the USB Fake Disk cookbook
• T1083 – Reads ini files
• T1083 – Enumerates the file system
• T1082 – Queries the volume information (name, serial number etc) of a device
• T1082 – Checks the free space of harddrives
• T1560 – Public key (encryption) found
• T1573 – Uses HTTPS
• T1571 – Detected TCP or UDP traffic on non-standard ports
• T1105 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP
• T1095 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP
• T1071 – Uses a known web browser user agent for HTTP communication
• T1071 – Uses HTTPS
• T1071 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP

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.