File name:

MBSetup.exe

Full analysis: https://app.any.run/tasks/ef5b417f-c022-43fd-9bae-b34647c2ec52
Verdict: Malicious activity
Analysis date: June 27, 2022, 06:44:51
OS: Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (build: 7601, 32 bit)
Indicators:
MIME: application/x-dosexec
File info: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
MD5:

11163F295FD2F3EA6A9E1260843DCE98

SHA1:

CCE54C92ECC0FCDFEA827D5996BDE2DD17957DFB

SHA256:

832D5D29801998250050CD55237A29978C55CAA2F5B54EC6B7A26D3D3C8C3454

SSDEEP:

49152:0LiZZMXU+0HwB90wxZN2DxiIq2dquAFqc:0YMX5b/WRq20

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  • MALICIOUS

    • Drops executable file immediately after starts

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

    • Application was dropped or rewritten from another process

      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)

  • SUSPICIOUS

    • Checks supported languages

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)
      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)

    • Executed as Windows Service

      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)

    • Creates files in the Windows directory

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)
      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)

    • Removes files from Windows directory

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

    • Creates files in the program directory

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)
      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)

    • Drops a file with a compile date too recent

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

    • Reads the computer name

      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)
      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

    • Searches for installed software

      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)
      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

    • Creates a directory in Program Files

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

    • Executable content was dropped or overwritten

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

    • Creates files in the driver directory

      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)

  • INFO

    • Reads settings of System Certificates

      • MBAMInstallerService.exe (PID: 1320)
      • MBSetup.exe (PID: 3736)
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No Malware configuration.

TRiD

.exe | Win64 Executable (generic) (64.6)
.dll | Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (15.4)
.exe | Win32 Executable (generic) (10.5)
.exe | Generic Win/DOS Executable (4.6)
.exe | DOS Executable Generic (4.6)

EXIF

EXE

ProductName: Malwarebytes
OriginalFileName: MBSetup.exe
InternalName: MBSetup.exe
LegalCopyright: Copyright (C) 2017 - 2021 Malwarebytes, Inc. All rights reserved.
FileVersion: 4.5.9.288
FileDescription: Malwarebytes Setup
CompanyName: Malwarebytes
CharacterSet: Unicode
LanguageCode: English (U.S.)
FileSubtype: -
ObjectFileType: Dynamic link library
FileOS: Windows NT 32-bit
FileFlags: (none)
FileFlagsMask: 0x003f
ProductVersionNumber: 0.0.0.0
FileVersionNumber: 4.5.9.288
Subsystem: Windows GUI
SubsystemVersion: 6
ImageVersion: -
OSVersion: 6
EntryPoint: 0x5d934
UninitializedDataSize: -
InitializedDataSize: 1825792
CodeSize: 656896
LinkerVersion: 14.15
PEType: PE32
TimeStamp: 2022:06:02 20:15:56+02:00
MachineType: Intel 386 or later, and compatibles

Summary

Architecture: IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386
Subsystem: IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_WINDOWS_GUI
Compilation Date: 02-Jun-2022 18:15:56
Detected languages:
  • Bulgarian - Bulgaria
  • Croatian - Croatia
  • Czech - Czech Republic
  • Danish - Denmark
  • Dutch - Netherlands
  • English - United Kingdom
  • English - United States
  • Finnish - Finland
  • French - France
  • German - Germany
  • Hungarian - Hungary
  • Italian - Italy
  • Japanese - Japan
  • Korean - Korea
  • Norwegian - Norway (Bokmal)
  • Polish - Poland
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Portuguese - Portugal
  • Romanian - Romania
  • Russian - Russia
  • Slovak - Slovakia
  • Slovenian - Slovenia
  • Spanish - Spain (International sort)
  • Swedish - Sweden
Debug artifacts:
  • d:\jenkins\workspace\A_MB4_MBSetup\bin\Win32\Release\MBSetup.pdb
CompanyName: Malwarebytes
FileDescription: Malwarebytes Setup
FileVersion: 4.5.9.288
LegalCopyright: Copyright (C) 2017 - 2021 Malwarebytes, Inc. All rights reserved.
InternalName: MBSetup.exe
OriginalFilename: MBSetup.exe
ProductName: Malwarebytes

DOS Header

Magic number: MZ
Bytes on last page of file: 0x0090
Pages in file: 0x0003
Relocations: 0x0000
Size of header: 0x0004
Min extra paragraphs: 0x0000
Max extra paragraphs: 0xFFFF
Initial SS value: 0x0000
Initial SP value: 0x00B8
Checksum: 0x0000
Initial IP value: 0x0000
Initial CS value: 0x0000
Overlay number: 0x0000
OEM identifier: 0x0000
OEM information: 0x0000
Address of NE header: 0x00000110

PE Headers

Signature: PE
Machine: IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386
Number of sections: 5
Time date stamp: 02-Jun-2022 18:15:56
Pointer to Symbol Table: 0x00000000
Number of symbols: 0
Size of Optional Header: 0x00E0
Characteristics:
  • IMAGE_FILE_32BIT_MACHINE
  • IMAGE_FILE_EXECUTABLE_IMAGE

Sections

Name
Virtual Address
Virtual Size
Raw Size
Charateristics
Entropy
.text
0x00001000
0x000A05D8
0x000A0600
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
6.57401
.rdata
0x000A2000
0x000290B0
0x00029200
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
5.0462
.data
0x000CC000
0x000057D0
0x00004200
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE
4.71428
.rsrc
0x000D2000
0x00185890
0x00185A00
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
6.90982
.reloc
0x00258000
0x000097E0
0x00009800
IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
6.69352

Resources

Title
Entropy
Size
Codepage
Language
Type
1
5.18995
2082
UNKNOWN
English - United States
RT_MANIFEST
2
3.77507
67624
UNKNOWN
English - United States
RT_ICON
3
4.01467
16936
UNKNOWN
English - United States
RT_ICON
4
4.15499
9640
UNKNOWN
English - United States
RT_ICON
5
4.31512
4264
UNKNOWN
English - United States
RT_ICON
6
4.69584
1128
UNKNOWN
English - United States
RT_ICON
9
4.45966
678
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
RT_STRING
10
3.96999
672
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
RT_STRING
11
5.8899
472
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
RT_STRING
12
5.87735
1090
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
RT_STRING

Imports

CRYPT32.dll
KERNEL32.dll
RPCRT4.dll
USER32.dll (delay-loaded)
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Total processes
37
Monitored processes
3
Malicious processes
2
Suspicious processes
0

Behavior graph

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start mbsetup.exe mbaminstallerservice.exe mbsetup.exe no specs

Process information

PID
CMD
Path
Indicators
Parent process
1320"C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\MBAMInstallerService.exe"C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\MBAMInstallerService.exe
services.exe
User:
SYSTEM
Company:
Malwarebytes
Integrity Level:
SYSTEM
Description:
Malwarebytes Installer Service
Exit code:
0
Version:
4.0.0.468
Modules
Images
c:\program files\malwarebytes\anti-malware\mbaminstallerservice.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
c:\windows\system32\ws2_32.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\nsi.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
2928"C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MBSetup.exe" C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MBSetup.exe—Explorer.EXE
User:
admin
Company:
Malwarebytes
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Malwarebytes Setup
Exit code:
3221226540
Version:
4.5.9.288
Modules
Images
c:\users\admin\appdata\local\temp\mbsetup.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
3736"C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MBSetup.exe" C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MBSetup.exe
Explorer.EXE
User:
admin
Company:
Malwarebytes
Integrity Level:
HIGH
Description:
Malwarebytes Setup
Exit code:
0
Version:
4.5.9.288
Modules
Images
c:\users\admin\appdata\local\temp\mbsetup.exe
c:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
c:\windows\system32\kernelbase.dll
c:\windows\system32\crypt32.dll
c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
c:\windows\system32\msasn1.dll
c:\windows\system32\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
c:\windows\system32\rpcrt4.dll
c:\windows\system32\user32.dll
Total events
9 662
Read events
9 602
Write events
59
Delete events
1

Modification events

(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\mbamtestkey
Operation:delete keyName:(default)
Value:
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\MuiCache\16C\52C64B7E
Operation:writeName:LanguageList
Value:
en-US
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:UserName
Value:
admin
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:ProductCode
Value:
MBAM-C
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:ProductBuild
Value:
consumer
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:ProgramDirectory
Value:
C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:Channel
Value:
release
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:Installer
Value:
C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\MBSetup.exe
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:Silent
Value:
false
(PID) Process:(3736) MBSetup.exeKey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\MBAMInstallerService\Parameters
Operation:writeName:Reboot
Value:
true
Executable files
1
Suspicious files
1
Text files
3
Unknown types
0

Dropped files

PID
Process
Filename
Type
1320MBAMInstallerService.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\MBInstallTemp\ctlrpkg.7z —
MD5:—
SHA256:—
1320MBAMInstallerService.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\MBInstallTemp\dbclspkg.7z —
MD5:—
SHA256:—
3736MBSetup.exeC:\Program Files\mbamtestfile.dattext
MD5:9F06243ABCB89C70E0C331C61D871FA7
SHA256:837CCB607E312B170FAC7383D7CCFD61FA5072793F19A25E75FBACB56539B86B
3736MBSetup.exeC:\Windows\system32\drivers\mbamtestfile.dattext
MD5:9F06243ABCB89C70E0C331C61D871FA7
SHA256:837CCB607E312B170FAC7383D7CCFD61FA5072793F19A25E75FBACB56539B86B
1320MBAMInstallerService.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\MBInstallTemp\servicepkg.7zcompressed
MD5:—
SHA256:—
3736MBSetup.exeC:\ProgramData\mbamtestfile.dattext
MD5:9F06243ABCB89C70E0C331C61D871FA7
SHA256:837CCB607E312B170FAC7383D7CCFD61FA5072793F19A25E75FBACB56539B86B
3736MBSetup.exeC:\Program Files\Malwarebytes\Anti-Malware\MBAMInstallerService.exeexecutable
MD5:—
SHA256:—
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HTTP(S) requests
0
TCP/UDP connections
8
DNS requests
3
Threats
0

HTTP requests

No HTTP requests
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Connections

PID
Process
IP
Domain
ASN
CN
Reputation
1320
MBAMInstallerService.exe
44.196.15.227:443
ark.mwbsys.com
University of California, San Diego
US
suspicious
1320
MBAMInstallerService.exe
52.222.139.37:443
cdn.mwbsys.com
Amazon.com, Inc.
US
unknown
3736
MBSetup.exe
52.222.139.37:443
cdn.mwbsys.com
Amazon.com, Inc.
US
unknown
—
—
52.222.139.37:443
cdn.mwbsys.com
Amazon.com, Inc.
US
unknown
3736
MBSetup.exe
44.196.15.227:443
ark.mwbsys.com
University of California, San Diego
US
suspicious

DNS requests

Domain
IP
Reputation
ark.mwbsys.com
  • 44.196.15.227
suspicious
cdn.mwbsys.com
  • 52.222.139.37
whitelisted

Threats

No threats detected
No debug info
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