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Database Entry

ConnectWise

Vendor detections: 12

Intelligence 12 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash:	ab258b4e6868de773c9d532d7410a53a3a81861163ac0238100d1bdd8f2b0ed1
SHA3-384 hash:	18af04fe23304d7b077b56b36c867ed3e601cb10d77abe1bb0a7910e8a5901bcfaa6ae917170b8b39f3468efc394373c
SHA1 hash:	564f8be2d10ca0c56e9ac3f36011e7d634100ca4
MD5 hash:	1d4aab5d6b71edf69562583a3b982e6b
humanhash:	twelve-ceiling-tango-nuts
File name:	ab258b4e6868de773c9d532d7410a53a3a81861163ac0238100d1bdd8f2b0ed1
Download:	download sample
Signature	ConnectWise Create hunting rule
File size:	11'251'712 bytes
First seen:	2025-12-30 10:23:47 UTC
Last seen:	Never
File type:	msi
MIME type:	application/x-msi
ssdeep	196608:CHzsG1yntvyL0yANlDdQzLq8iE9d00AGIHGbQE9d00AGIHGbQE9d00AGcHGbQE9f:QzsG1kJ203NldL8iEdKmkEdOmkEdSmkU
TLSH	T196B6230573F86129F2F72B36AD3A56A15C7ABC624E60D15D2648325D0EB0EC19FB2733
TrID	80.0% (.MSI) Microsoft Windows Installer (454500/1/170) 10.7% (.MST) Windows SDK Setup Transform script (61000/1/5) 7.8% (.MSP) Windows Installer Patch (44509/10/5) 1.4% (.) Generic OLE2 / Multistream Compound (8000/1)
Magika	msi
Reporter	JAMESWT_WT
Tags:	ConnectWise msi pingserv-pro

Intelligence

File Origin

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Vendor Threat Intelligence

Malware configuration found for:

MSI

Details

MSI

an embedded setup program or component

Link:

https://research.acce.ciphertechsolutions.com/results/d4a3a656-f61c-4503-baf8-494c2adbbf81/

Detection:

n/a

Link:

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/46545/

Verdict:

Malicious

Score:

90.2%

Link:

https://cyber-fortress.com/docs/result/index.php?id=6953a86a7468b4bd1c8edc9a

Tags:

connectwise shellcode spawn

Verdict:

Unknown

Link:

https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/ab258b4e6868de773c9d532d7410a53a3a81861163ac0238100d1bdd8f2b0ed1

Result

Verdict:

MALICIOUS

Link:

https://labs.inquest.net/dfi/sha256/ab258b4e6868de773c9d532d7410a53a3a81861163ac0238100d1bdd8f2b0ed1

Details

Windows PE Executable

Found a Windows Portable Executable (PE) binary. Depending on context, the presence of a binary is suspicious or malicious.

Verdict:

Malicious

File Type:

msi

First seen:

2025-12-18T14:53:00Z UTC

Last seen:

2026-01-01T08:39:00Z UTC

Hits:

~100

Detections:

HEUR:Trojan.OLE2.Alien.gen Trojan.Win32.Agent.sb not-a-virus:VHO:RemoteAdmin.MSIL.ConnectWise.gen not-a-virus:HEUR:RemoteAdmin.Win32.ConnectWise.gen not-a-virus:HEUR:RemoteAdmin.MSIL.ConnectWise.gen

Link:

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/ab258b4e6868de773c9d532d7410a53a3a81861163ac0238100d1bdd8f2b0ed1/results?tab=lookup

Score:

45%

Verdict:

Susipicious

File Type:

Result

Malware family:

n/a

Score:

8/10

Tags:

discovery persistence privilege_escalation ransomware revoked_codesign

Link:

https://tria.ge/reports/260106-n25gdsgz5b/

Behaviour

Checks SCSI registry key(s)

Checks processor information in registry

Modifies data under HKEY_USERS

Modifies registry class

Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses

Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken

Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow

Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory

Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API

Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages

System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery

System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery

Drops file in Program Files directory

Drops file in Windows directory

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Authentication Package

Drops file in System32 directory

Enumerates connected drives

Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking

Executes dropped EXE

Loads dropped DLL

Binary is signed using a ConnectWise certificate revoked for key compromise.

Sets service image path in registry

Verdict:

Suspicious

Tags:

exploit

YARA:

cve_2014_6352

Link:

https://app.threat.zone/submission/4ec94df9-2132-47ee-84e2-4bc1950978a4

Please note that we are no longer able to provide a coverage score for Virus Total.

Threat name:

Malicious File

Score:

1.00

Link:

https://yomi.yoroi.company/submissions/ab258b4e6868de773c9d532d7410a53a3a81861163ac0238100d1bdd8f2b0ed1

YARA Signatures

MalwareBazaar uses YARA rules from several public and non-public repositories, such as YARAhub and Malpedia. Those are being matched against malware samples uploaded to MalwareBazaar as well as against any suspicious process dumps they may create. Please note that only results from TLP:CLEAR rules are being displayed.

Rule name:	DebuggerCheck__API Create hunting rule
Reference:	https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara

Rule name:	DetectEncryptedVariants Create hunting rule
Author:	Zinyth
Description:	Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded

Rule name:	INDICATOR_RMM_ConnectWise_ScreenConnect Create hunting rule
Author:	ditekSHen
Description:	Detects ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect). Review RMM Inventory

Rule name:	NET Create hunting rule
Author:	malware-lu

Rule name:	RANSOMWARE Create hunting rule
Author:	ToroGuitar

Rule name:	win_evilconwi_w0 Create hunting rule
Author:	Karsten Hahn @ G DATA CyberDefense
Description:	Settings from app.config that hide the connection of the client. These settings are potentially unwanted

File information

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Cape

https://www.capesandbox.com/analysis/46545/

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