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Database Entry



ConnectWise


Vendor detections: 7


Intelligence 7 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: cd69825ca962118955811a023d3f6b130eb70696b532b96bbf1a893be00a7c35
SHA3-384 hash: 23149917e0bcea28fb1b0857876b5cc6f0948ebc9115b44973e92efe279c8b6de9e3ab2498cbec6001d8c7bd9c03a391
SHA1 hash: fc90db4ac57170a41af93ea8262533f4b0fd061c
MD5 hash: 3d2f32365557c4418b67448656ae2ac4
humanhash: cold-queen-london-purple
File name:ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi?e=Access&y=Guest
Download: download sample
Signature ConnectWise
File size:13'549'568 bytes
First seen:2026-09-14 13:27:18 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) msi
MIME type:application/x-msi
ssdeep 196608:IWh0cGwgWh0cGUWh0cGuWh0cG4Wh0cGKWh0cGHWh0cGs:IWacmWachWacZWacvWac3WacIWacl
TLSH T12FD6232523FD405AF8F75B39FD7682A45D72BE64CE21C11E9328B90D2A74D8096723B3
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 juroots
Tags:ConnectWise msi msi?e=access&y=guest

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
55
Origin country :
US US
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Verdict:
Likely Malicious
Threat level:
  7.5/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
expand lolbin overlay packed packed rundll32
Gathering data
Threat name:
ByteCode-MSIL.PUA.ConnectWise
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-09-13 08:33:22 UTC
File Type:
Binary (Archive)
Extracted files:
176
AV detection:
6 of 36 (16.67%)
Threat level:
  1/5
Verdict:
malicious
Label(s):
ADMINTOOL_ScreenConnect
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  8/10
Tags:
backdoor discovery persistence privilege_escalation ransomware rat revoked_codesign
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 SendNotifyMessage
Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages
System Location Discovery: System Language 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
ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote access tool
Event Triggered Execution: Component Object Model Hijacking
Executes dropped EXE
Loads dropped DLL
Sets service image path in registry
Signed with revoked ConnectWise certificate
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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
Reference:https://github.com/naxonez/yaraRules/blob/master/AntiDebugging.yara
Rule name:DetectEncryptedVariants
Author:Zinyth
Description:Detects 'encrypted' in ASCII, Unicode, base64, or hex-encoded
Rule name:INDICATOR_RMM_ConnectWise_ScreenConnect
Author:ditekSHen
Description:Detects ConnectWise Control (formerly ScreenConnect). Review RMM Inventory
Rule name:NET
Author:malware-lu
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)

File information


The table below shows additional information about this malware sample such as delivery method and external references.

Web download

ConnectWise

Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) msi cd69825ca962118955811a023d3f6b130eb70696b532b96bbf1a893be00a7c35

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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