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 21+ 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: 71. Detected as malicious: 60. Missed: 11. Coverage: 84.5%.

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

Dominant system-level operations (47.30% of behavior) suggest this malware performs deep system reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or core OS manipulation. It’s actively probing system defenses and attempting to gain administrative control.

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

• T1027 – encode data using XOR
• 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 the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1082 – Checks available memory
• 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 – Detects VirtualBox through the presence of a registry key
• T1057 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1057 – Checks for the presence of known devices from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1057 – Detects the presence of Wine emulator via registry key
• T1057 – Checks for the presence of known windows from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1057 – Expresses interest in specific running processes
• 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 – Attempts to connect to a dead IP:Port
• T1071 – Yara detections observed in process dumps, payloads or dropped files
• T1573 – Establishes an encrypted HTTPS connection
• T1005 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1010 – Tries to detect debugger
• T1012 – Tries to detect virtual machine
• T1016 – Queries a host’s domain name
• T1027.002 – Obfuscates control flow
• T1047 – Queries OS version via WMI
• T1047 – Collects hardware properties
• T1047 – Tries to detect the presence of antivirus software
• T1057 – Enumerates running processes
• T1071.001 – Downloads file
• T1082 – Enumerates running processes
• T1082 – Queries OS version via WMI
• T1082 – Collects hardware properties
• T1083 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1083 – Possibly does reconnaissance
• T1105 – Downloads file
• T1113 – Takes screenshot
• T1119 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1124 – Tries to detect virtual machine
• T1497.001 – Tries to detect virtual machine
• T1497.003 – Delays execution
• T1497.003 – Tries to detect virtual machine
• T1518.001 – Tries to detect the presence of antivirus software
• T1552.001 – Searches for sensitive browser data
• T1562.001 – Modifies native system functions
• T1622 – Tries to detect debugger
• T1047 – Queries BIOS Information (via WMI, Win32_Bios)
• T1055 – May try to detect the Windows Explorer process (often used for injection)
• T1497 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1497 – Checks for debuggers (window names)
• T1497 – Checks for debuggers (devices)
• T1497 – Checks if the current process is being debugged
• T1497 – Hides threads from debuggers
• T1497 – May sleep (evasive loops) to hinder dynamic analysis
• T1027 – Binary may include packed or crypted data
• T1027 – PE file has a high occurrence of arithmetic instructions at the PE entrypoint (possbibily packed)
• T1027.002 – 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)
• T1518.001 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1518.001 – Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements
• T1518.001 – Tries to evade debugger and weak emulator (self modifying code)
• T1518.001 – Checks for debuggers (window names)
• T1518.001 – Checks for debuggers (devices)
• T1518.001 – Checks if the current process is being debugged
• T1518.001 – Tries to detect sandboxes / dynamic malware analysis system (registry check)
• T1518.001 – Hides threads from debuggers
• T1057 – May try to detect the Windows Explorer process (often used for injection)
• T1057 – Queries a list of all running processes
• T1082 – Tries to detect virtualization through RDTSC time measurements
• T1082 – Tries to evade debugger and weak emulator (self modifying code)
• T1082 – Queries the cryptographic machine GUID
• T1082 – Queries BIOS Information (via WMI, Win32_Bios)
• T1082 – Queries the volume information (name, serial number etc) of a device
• T1005 – Found many strings related to Crypto-Wallets (likely being stolen)
• T1005 – Tries to steal Crypto Currency Wallets
• T1573 – Uses HTTPS
• T1105 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP
• T1095 – Downloads files from webservers via HTTP
• T1071 – C2 URLs / IPs found in malware configuration
• 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.