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Database Entry



ConnectWise


Vendor detections: 8


Intelligence 8 IOCs YARA 6 File information Comments

SHA256 hash: fe74be8e67ceed37d50c35000fb3beb7fbbd3f9a682db6a5dca2eb2c6827a62c
SHA3-384 hash: eb6fc9b3e0708a6071f7dba1d2f2e55eace29eec937a2e3d456dc897964d24f47a5e9728d2c6c5f4bd63b9ee144e2553
SHA1 hash: c43cd67d9ff19989480b0d6b7bd2b44d87800bef
MD5 hash: 00fe070c30ef8307698c002932a212f6
humanhash: sixteen-happy-quebec-london
File name:fe74be8e67ceed37d50c35000fb3beb7fbbd3f9a682db6a5dca2eb2c6827a62c.msi
Download: download sample
Signature ConnectWise
File size:13'598'720 bytes
First seen:2026-10-12 05:05:16 UTC
Last seen:Never
File type:Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) msi
MIME type:application/x-msi
ssdeep 196608:8rnLYG3zDhukOTrnLYG3zlrnLYG3z3rnLYG3zgrnLYG3zTrnLYG3zirnLYG3z:8bDDDgvTbDDlbDD3bDDgbDDTbDDibDD
TLSH T1FED6233167FD4A18E1B36774EE3A91E1D1367DA5DF11D18F2224386E68B1E4082A373B
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 whack_sh
Tags:ConnectWise msi

Intelligence


File Origin
# of uploads :
1
# of downloads :
91
Origin country :
US US
Vendor Threat Intelligence
Verdict:
Malicious
Threat level:
  10/10
Confidence:
100%
Tags:
anti-debug anti-vm base64 CAB evasive expand expired-cert explorer fingerprint hacktool installer installer lolbin lolbin overlay packed packed reconnaissance rundll32
Verdict:
Adware
File Type:
msi
First seen:
2026-09-28T07:44:00Z UTC
Last seen:
2026-10-12T17:37:00Z UTC
Hits:
~10
Result
Threat name:
ScreenConnect Tool
Detection:
malicious
Classification:
evad
Score:
68 / 100
Signature
.NET source code contains potential unpacker
.NET source code references suspicious native API functions
Contains functionality to hide user accounts
Multi AV Scanner detection for dropped file
Multi AV Scanner detection for submitted file
Behaviour
Behavior Graph:
Verdict:
inconclusive
YARA:
4 match(es)
Tags:
.Net CAB:COMPRESSION:LZX CAB:COMPRESSION:NONE Executable Managed .NET Office Document PDB Path PE (Portable Executable) PE File Layout PE Memory-Mapped (Dump) SOS: 0.21 SOS: 0.24 SOS: 0.25 SOS: 0.26 SOS: 0.27 SOS: 0.31 SOS: 0.32 SOS: 0.36 SOS: 0.39
Threat name:
Win32.PUA.ConnectWise
Status:
Malicious
First seen:
2026-09-28 11:28:55 UTC
File Type:
Binary (Archive)
Extracted files:
183
AV detection:
15 of 38 (39.47%)
Threat level:
  1/5
Verdict:
malicious
Label(s):
ADMINTOOL_ScreenConnect
Result
Malware family:
n/a
Score:
  7/10
Tags:
discovery persistence privilege_escalation ransomware
Behaviour
Checks SCSI registry key(s)
Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
Modifies registry class
Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
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
Enumerates connected drives
Loads dropped DLL
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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:win_evilconwi_w0
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


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 fe74be8e67ceed37d50c35000fb3beb7fbbd3f9a682db6a5dca2eb2c6827a62c

(this sample)

  
Delivery method
Distributed via web download

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