MALICIOUS — Half-Life 2 fix.exe

MALICIOUS — Half-Life 2 fix.exe is a pe sample analyzed by MalwareAnalyzer by Cyble with a malicious verdict (94/100), attributed to the Upantix family. 6 of 55 detection engines flagged it, exhibiting 1 ATT&CK technique.

Identification

• SHA-256: 756244a0811499b8717118e1d695fbdff8d0c634aa6950780f0c8318613294d1
• SHA-1: fae1367b9ec90c458538083f0d6293fcedaedced
• MD5: 4c92b4b6b72d8f31bd36de191da431d8
• imphash: 24b60c57cc33f3e633431b7ad497fda7
• ssdeep: 12288:5wawSwaw1wawSwaw9zJwawSwaw1wawSwaw9zswawSwaw1wawSwaw9zJwawSwaw1a:C
• TLSH: T11A60D100327A399CD7709F605524598DA22552C1897D3EEA9B03072D3CB78BBB9E8F71
• Submitted as: Half-Life 2 fix.exe
• File type: pe · Size: 3529669 bytes
• Verdict: malicious (94/100) · Family: Upantix

Detections (6 of 55 engines)

• MalwareAnalyser heuristics (entropy/packer): UPX
• ClamAV (daily): Win.Malware.Upantix-9886651-0
• YARA: JPCERT/CC: JPCERT_HUILoader_PlugX_SideLoad
• Detect It Easy (packer/type): DIE:Turbo Linker
• Microsoft Defender: Trojan:Win32/Upantix.GM!MTB
• Kaspersky (KVRT): HEUR:Packed.Win32.Upantix.gen

MITRE ATT&CK

• T1071.001

Why this verdict

The malicious score of 94/100 is the fusion of 5 weighted signals:

• ClamAV (daily) flagged Win.Malware.Upantix-9886651-0 (rule Win.Malware.Upantix-9886651-0) - engine signal, weight 0.90, confidence 0.95
• YARA: JPCERT/CC flagged JPCERT_HUILoader_PlugX_SideLoad (rule JPCERT_HUILoader_PlugX_SideLoad) - engine signal, weight 0.35, confidence 0.70
• Detect It Easy (packer/type) flagged DIE:Turbo Linker (rule DIE:Turbo Linker) - engine signal, weight 0.35, confidence 0.70
• communicate over HTTP (rule communicate over HTTP) - capa signal, weight 0.30, confidence 0.60
• Packing/obfuscation: UPX, high-entropy-sections:UPX1, Turbo Linker - static signal, weight 0.25, confidence 0.55

Dynamic analysis

No runtime behaviour was captured for this sample, so the analysis above is static only. That is a limit of this run rather than evidence the sample does nothing.

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