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: 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

This threat shows heavy registry manipulation (45.31% 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

• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings targeting Xen
• T1620 – invoke .NET assembly method
• T1082 – Checks available memory
• T1071 – The PE file contains a suspicious PDB path
• T1106 – Guard pages use detected – possible anti-debugging.
• T1070.006 – Binary compilation timestomping detected
• T1070 – Binary compilation timestomping detected
• T1027 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1027.002 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1005 – Searches for sensitive mail data
• T1005 – Reads sensitive mail data
• T1005 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1012 – Query OS Information
• T1012 – Searches for sensitive mail data
• T1012 – Reads sensitive mail data
• T1016 – Checks external IP address
• T1027.002 – Creates a page with write and execute permissions
• T1027.002 – Obfuscates control flow
• T1055 – Modifies control flow of a process started from a created or modified executable
• T1055.012 – Process Hollowing
• T1057 – Enumerates running processes
• T1071.004 – Performs DNS request
• T1082 – Enumerates running processes
• T1082 – Query OS Information
• T1083 – Searches for sensitive mail data
• T1083 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1083 – Possibly does reconnaissance
• T1095 – Connects to remote host
• T1119 – Searches for sensitive mail data
• T1119 – Reads sensitive mail data
• T1119 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1134 – Enables process privileges
• T1552.001 – Searches for sensitive mail data
• T1552.001 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1552.002 – Searches for sensitive mail data
• T1552.002 – Reads sensitive mail data
• T1562.001 – Modifies Windows Defender configuration
• T1564.003 – Creates process with hidden window
• T1568 – Performs DNS request for known DDNS domain
• T1129 – The process attempted to dynamically load a malicious function
• T1059 – Detected command line output monitoring
• T1129 – The process tried to load dynamically one or more functions.
• T1564.003 – Detected the creation of a hidden window (common execution hiding technique)
• T1027 – Detected the execution of a powershell command with one or more suspicious parameter
• T1129 – 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
• T1057 – The process has tried to detect the debugger probing the use of page guards.
• T1057 – The process attempted to detect a running debugger using common APIs
• T1089 – The process has tried to suspend a sandbox-related thread (possible sandbox evasion attempt)
• T1082 – Queries for the computername
• T1086 – Detected some PowerShell commands executions
• T1027.009 – Drops interesting files and uses them

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.