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Database Entry



ChromElevator


Vendor detections: 9


Intelligence 9 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: af56ed78e2ff58cdecb5a027305d5d469a1ca9eff22254bc480b3d8fcc1a1f2a
SHA3-384 hash: b8c89b6b066747af879deb385602ae540084ebb7091c04feb930596380b332109d552ce4c566c81f16ec4322247990f3
SHA1 hash: 2daed95b1dcfb6f68cfc2fcb7957911a967769ac
MD5 hash: 5bb0a49ad3bd1fba5c0689c87a751797
humanhash: two-oscar-wisconsin-batman
File name:nouveau_curriculum_vitae (7).vbs
Download: download sample
Signature ChromElevator
File size:9'174'962 bytes
First seen:2026-06-30 08:47:22 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Visual Basic Script (vbs) vbs
MIME type:text/plain
ssdeep 49152:m/ML5K7JmJ2RmC4k3Z3R3y3B3+3a3bZZmG9dnuTunurkutmOVkR+0K4rdypFtk/C:g
TLSH T17C96F65B93D403EE11B2B102E84D796AF612C4BC6B3693652D58793D33B6638833E5F8
Magika vba
Reporter JAMESWT_WT
Tags:ChromElevator nouveau-curriculum-vitae vbs

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
62
Origin country :
IT IT
Vendor Threat Intelligence
No detections
Verdict:
Malicious
Score:
99.9%
Tags:
vmdetect shell virus sage
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
anti-debug anti-vm crypto dropper evasive evasive expand fingerprint lolbin obfuscated ransomware reconnaissance
Verdict:
Malicious
File Type:
vbs
First seen:
2026-05-18T01:54:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-06-30T07:32:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Detections:
HEUR:Trojan.VBS.Generic HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic HEUR:Trojan-Dropper.Script.Generic HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic
Gathering data
Threat name:
Text.Ransomware.Generic
Status:
Suspicious
First seen:
2026-05-17 09:40:48 UTC
File Type:
Text
AV detection:
4 of 36 (11.11%)
Threat level:
  5/5
Result
Malware family:
Score:
  10/10
Tags:
family:chromelevator family:xmrig defense_evasion discovery execution hacktool miner persistence spyware stealer upx
Behaviour
Checks SCSI registry key(s)
Enumerates system info in registry
Kills process with taskkill
Modifies registry class
Runs ping.exe
Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
Script User-Agent
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Uses Task Scheduler COM API
Enumerates physical storage devices
System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery
Checks for VirtualBox DLLs, possible anti-VM trick
UPX packed file
Adds Run key to start application
Contacts third-party web service commonly abused for C2
Looks up external IP address via web service
Checks computer location settings
Deletes itself
Executes dropped EXE
Loads dropped DLL
Reads user/profile data of web browsers
Badlisted process makes network request
Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
XMRig Miner payload
Detects ChromElevator
Family: ChromElevator
Family: xmrig
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YARA Signatures


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Rule name:dependsonpythonailib
Author:Tim Brown
Description:Hunts for dependencies on Python AI libraries
Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:RANSOMWARE
Author:ToroGuitar
Rule name:Sus_CMD_Powershell_Usage
Author:XiAnzheng
Description:May Contain(Obfuscated or no) Powershell or CMD Command that can be abused by threat actor(can create FP)
Rule name:telebot_framework
Author:vietdx.mb
Rule name:test_Malaysia
Author:rectifyq
Description:Detects file containing malaysia string

File information


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