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 17+ hours, this malware remained undetected — a half-day window that permitted the adversary to complete initial execution, establish basic persistence, and perform initial system enumeration.

Global Detection Posture — Who Caught It, Who Missed It

VirusTotal engines: 73. Detected as malicious: 55. Missed: 18. Coverage: 75.3%.

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 (47.34% 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

• T1202 – Uses suspicious command line tools or Windows utilities
• T1497 – Detects VirtualBox through the presence of a registry key
• T1497 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1027 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1027 – The binary contains an unknown PE section name indicative of packing
• T1027.002 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1027.002 – The binary contains an unknown PE section name indicative of packing
• T1082 – Checks available memory
• T1082 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1010 – Checks for the presence of known windows from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1083 – Checks for the presence of known devices from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1057 – Expresses interest in specific running processes
• T1057 – Checks for the presence of known devices from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1057 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1057 – Enumerates running processes
• T1057 – Detects the presence of Wine emulator via registry key
• T1057 – Checks for the presence of known windows from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1057 – Detects VirtualBox through the presence of a registry key
• T1012 – Detects the presence of Wine emulator via registry key
• T1012 – Detects VirtualBox through the presence of a registry key
• T1012 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1518 – Detects the presence of Wine emulator via registry key
• T1071 – Yara detections observed in process dumps, payloads or dropped files
• T1071 – HTTP traffic contains suspicious features which may be indicative of malware related traffic
• T1129 – The process tried to load dynamically one or more functions.
• T1057 – The process may have looked for a particular process running on the system
• T1045 – Manalize Local SandBox Packer Harvesting
• T1057 – The process attempted to detect a running debugger using common APIs
• T1119 – The process tried to detect the presence of common debug and forensic utilities
• T1063 – The process tried to detect the presence of common debug and forensic utilities
• T1119 – The process attempted to detect debuggers and common forensic/analysis tools looking for known devices
• T1063 – The process attempted to detect debuggers and common forensic/analysis tools looking for known devices
• T1012 – The process has tried to retrieve the BIOS version (maybe for checking the virtualization presence)
• T1082 – The process has tried to retrieve the BIOS version (maybe for checking the virtualization presence)
• T1047 – Queries process information (via WMI, Win32_Process)
• T1059 – Very long cmdline option found, this is very uncommon (may be encrypted or packed)
• T1059 – Very long command line found
• T1055 – May try to detect the Windows Explorer process (often used for injection)
• T1036 – Creates files inside the user directory
• T1562.001 – Uses taskkill to terminate processes
• T1497 – May sleep (evasive loops) to hinder dynamic analysis
• T1497 – Hides threads from debuggers
• T1497 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1497 – Checks for debuggers (devices)
• T1497 – Checks for debuggers (window names)
• T1497 – Checks if the current process is being debugged
• T1027 – Binary may include packed or crypted data
• T1027.002 – PE file has section (not .text) which is very likely to contain packed code (zlib compression ratio < 0.011)
• T1027.002 – Binary may include packed or crypted data
• T1518.001 – Hides threads from debuggers
• T1518.001 – Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements
• T1518.001 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1518.001 – Tries to evade debugger and weak emulator (self modifying code)
• T1518.001 – Checks for debuggers (devices)
• T1518.001 – Checks for debuggers (window names)
• T1518.001 – Checks if the current process is being debugged
• T1518.001 – Tries to detect sandboxes / dynamic malware analysis system (registry check)
• T1057 – Queries a list of all running processes
• T1057 – May try to detect the Windows Explorer process (often used for injection)
• T1018 – Reads the hosts file
• T1083 – Reads ini files
• T1083 – Enumerates the file system
• T1082 – Queries process information (via WMI, Win32_Process)
• T1082 – Queries the volume information (name, serial number etc) of a device
• T1082 – Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements
• T1082 – Tries to evade debugger and weak emulator (self modifying code)
• T1082 – Checks the free space of harddrives
• T1573 – Uses HTTPS
• T1105 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP
• T1095 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP
• T1071 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP
• T1071 – Uses HTTPS

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.