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 126+ days, this malware remained undetected — an extremely prolonged compromise that provided the adversary extensive opportunity for advanced persistent operations, comprehensive data harvesting, lateral movement across network segments, and sophisticated evasion technique deployment.

Global Detection Posture — Who Caught It, Who Missed It

VirusTotal engines: 73. Detected as malicious: 37. Missed: 36. Coverage: 50.7%.

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

• T1027.002 – packed with Themida
• T1497.001 – reference anti-VM strings targeting Xen
• T1082 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1010 – Checks for the presence of known windows from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1497 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1057 – Checks for the presence of known windows from debuggers and forensic tools
• T1057 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1012 – Checks the version of Bios, possibly for anti-virtualization
• T1071 – Yara detections observed in process dumps, payloads or dropped files
• T1071 – Binary file triggered YARA rule
• T1106 – Guard pages use detected – possible anti-debugging.
• T1055 – Contains .tls (Thread Local Storage) section
• T1027 – The binary contains an unknown PE section name indicative of packing
• T1027 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1027.002 – The binary contains an unknown PE section name indicative of packing
• T1027.002 – The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data
• T1059 – Very long cmdline option found, this is very uncommon (may be encrypted or packed)
• T1059 – Very long command line found
• T1548 – Found direct / indirect Syscall (likely to bypass EDR)
• T1036 – Creates files inside the user directory
• T1497 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1497 – Hides threads from debuggers
• T1497 – Query firmware table information (likely to detect VMs)
• T1497 – Checks for debuggers (window names)
• T1497 – Checks if the current process is being debugged
• T1562.001 – Creates guard pages, often used to prevent reverse engineering and debugging
• T1027.002 – PE file has section (not .text) which is very likely to contain packed code (zlib compression ratio < 0.011)
• T1070.006 – Binary contains a suspicious time stamp
• T1012 – Monitors certain registry keys / values for changes (often done to protect autostart functionality)
• T1518.001 – Tries to detect process monitoring tools (Task Manager, Process Explorer etc.)
• T1518.001 – Contains capabilities to detect virtual machines
• T1518.001 – Hides threads from debuggers
• T1518.001 – Tries to detect sandboxes / dynamic malware analysis system (registry check)
• T1518.001 – Query firmware table information (likely to detect VMs)
• T1518.001 – Checks for debuggers (window names)
• T1518.001 – Checks if the current process is being debugged
• T1018 – Reads the hosts file
• T1083 – Reads ini files
• T1083 – Enumerates the file system
• T1082 – Checks the free space of harddrives
• T1082 – Queries the volume information (name, serial number etc) of a device
• T1082 – Queries keyboard layouts
• T1560 – Public key (encryption) found
• T1573 – Uses HTTPS
• T1071 – Uses HTTPS
• T1055 – May try to detect the Windows Explorer process (often used for injection)
• T1057 – May try to detect the Windows Explorer process (often used for injection)

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.