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 19+ 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: 61. Missed: 12. Coverage: 83.6%.

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.

MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

• T1027 – encode data using XOR
• T1129 – parse PE header
• T1129 – link many functions at runtime
• T1027 – encrypt data using speck
• T1057 – enumerate process modules
• T1082 – get system information on Windows
• T1059 – accept command line arguments
• T1027 – encode data using Base64
• T1083 – get common file path
• T1129 – link function at runtime on Windows
• T1027 – encrypt data using RC4 PRGA
• T1071 – Anomalous binary characteristics
• T1071 – Yara detections observed in process dumps, payloads or dropped files
• T1071 – The PE file contains an overlay
• T1106 – Guard pages use detected – possible anti-debugging.
• T1055 – Contains .tls (Thread Local Storage) section
• T1027 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1027.002 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1569.002 – Found PSEXEC tool (often used for remote process execution)
• T1574.002 – Tries to load missing DLLs
• T1562.001 – Creates guard pages, often used to prevent reverse engineering and debugging
• T1070.004 – May delete shadow drive data (may be related to ransomware)
• T1056 – Creates a DirectInput object (often for capturing keystrokes)
• T1518.001 – May try to detect the virtual machine to hinder analysis (VM artifact strings found in memory)
• T1082 – Reads software policies
• T1560 – Public key (encryption) found
• 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.