File verdict·Decided by the MT AI Engine
Our call

Suspicious

Signed SSD utility shows heavy obfuscation, suspicious sandbox behaviour (LSASS targeting, direct IP contact), but clean across 72 engines.

Signed but unverified · Omid Soroori
Trust score50Caution
MT AI confidence · 75%
SSDBooster.exe
3.4 MB
291e282a1574dda5ca2c4362d15e
Antivirus engines
0 of 76 flagged
Code signing
Unverified: Omid Soroori
Age
First seen 4mo ago
MT AI Engine · our arbiter

The verdict, reasoned out.

Not a rules engine. The MT AI Engine reads every signal we collected, weighs them against history, and commits to an answer.

75%Confidence
High
Reasoning

Zero detections from 72 engines including top tier-1 vendors provide a strong clean signal, but high-entropy packing, .NET Reactor obfuscation, and offensive MITRE techniques (T1562.001 via fsutil, T1620 timestomp) raise red flags. Heuristics highlight credential dumping shape and dropper profile, though the file is signed and has medium prevalence. No malicious runtime outcomes or external intel hits, but behaviour doesn't align with typical benign optimizers. Overall mixed signals warrant caution.

Key signals · 5

Each signal cites a concrete token from the evidence the arbiter saw — engine name, MITRE technique, signer string, or an exact count.

  1. 0/72 engines malicious (17 tier1 clean: Avast, AVG, BitDefender, DrWeb, Emsisoft, ESET, F-Secure, Fortinet, GData, Ikarus, Kaspersky)

  2. triggeredHeuristics 'MalwareTips.Synth.CredentialDumper' fired (evidence: lsass.exe)

  3. behaviour.offensiveCount=3 (T1560, T1562.001, T1620); contactedIps[0]='162.159.36.2'

  4. peAnalysis.likelyPacked=true; communityComments THOR 'SUSP_OBF_NET_Reactor_JIT_Encryption'

  5. prevalence.classification='medium' (34 uniqueSources, 40 submissions)

Points in its favour
  • 0 malicious engines (17 tier1 clean: BitDefender, ESET, Kaspersky, etc.)
  • Medium prevalence (40 submissions, 34 sources)
  • No malicious sandbox verdict
  • No dropped children or malicious hosts
  • Signed executable
Points against
  • High-entropy code and likely packing
  • .NET Reactor obfuscation (cracked versions malware-linked)
  • Offensive MITRE: T1562.001 (anti-forensic check), T1560, T1620
  • LSASS targeting (Mimikatz-like)
  • Direct IP C2 profile (162.159.36.2)
  • Unknown signer 'Omid Soroori' (no history)
What to do

Treat as suspicious: do not execute unless verified from official source. Use sandbox or static analysis tools for confirmation; delete if unnecessary.

Runtime behaviour

What this file did when executed

This file was detonated in 1 sandbox and its runtime behaviour was observed.

MITRE ATT&CK
13

Adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

T1027T1027.002T1057T1082T1083T1095T1129T1140T1198T1497T1560T1562.001T1620
Spawned processes
9
$(unnamed)
"C:\Users\<USER>\Desktop\SSDBooster.exe"
$(unnamed)
"fsutil" behavior query disabledeletenotify
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\services.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService -p
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k UnistackSvcGroup
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalSystemNetworkRestricted -p -s StorSvc
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
$(unnamed)
C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalService -s W32Time
+1 more processes captured.
Network activity
1
IP addresses1
  • 162.159.36.2
Filesystem & mutexes
6
Files written6
  • C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\FontCache\Fonts\Download-1.tmp
  • \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects
  • \Device\KsecDD
  • \\?\PIPE\lsarpc
  • \\?\PIPE\NETLOGON
+1 more
No researcher-database hits
External threat-intel sources were not collected for this scan.
Signature matches

YARA + heuristic rules that fired

A researcher-curated or high-severity heuristic rule matched this sample. These rules target specific malware families and are near-definitive.

3 synthesis
MITRE ATT&CK profile
Execution× 1Cred access× 1C2× 1
MalwareTips synthesis rules
Our heuristics on VT data + sandbox behaviour
  • CredentialDumpermedium

    Sandbox observed process activity targeting LSASS (Windows credential store). Legitimate software has no business reading LSASS memory — this is Mimikatz-shape behaviour.

    Evidence
    C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
  • DirectIpC2medium

    Sample contacted 1 external IP address(es) and zero domains. Benign software virtually always uses DNS; no-DNS direct-IP C2 is a strong malware indicator because it bypasses reputation systems and dodges domain-based blocklists.

    Evidence
    162.159.36.2
  • DropperNetworkProfilehigh

    Unsigned, packed PE with sandbox-observed network activity. The packing step hides the payload until execution; the network call fetches / reports for the next stage. Classic dropper / stager behaviour.

    Evidence
    162.159.36.2
Antivirus engine breakdown

0 detections across 76 engines

0 malicious0 suspicious76 clean
Tier-117 engines
0flag
Top commercial AVs (low FP rate)
Tier-238 engines
0flag
Mainstream engines with mixed FP rates
Low-trust21 engines
0flag
Heuristic / generic-AI engines (high FP rate)
All 76 engines report this file as clean.
Hash 291e282a1574… cross-referenced against 76 AV engines via our AV network.
PE forensics

Section entropy & packers

Executable sections have high entropy (7.2+) — the code is compressed or encrypted and only decrypted at runtime. Classic packing behaviour.

ent 7.40Likely packed
Section entropy3 sections
.text
7.94packed
.rsrc
7.00
.reloc
0.10
0.0Packed threshold 7.28.0
Prevalence

How often this file shows up in the wild

Moderate prevalence — neither rare nor common. No strong prior applies.

Medium
Unique uploaders
34
Moderate upload volume.
Total submissions
40
Includes repeat uploads by the same source.
First seen by VT
4mo ago
Jan 27, 2026
Prevalence quadrant
Rare · New
Targeted malware lives here
Common · New
Just-released software
Rare · Old
Niche or internal tooling
Common · Old
Trusted legitimate binaries
File identity

Forensic fingerprint

File biography
First seen (VT)
1/27/2026, 3:09:17 PM
First seen (MalwareBazaar)
Last analysis (VT)
2/11/2026, 1:14:56 AM
Scanned here
4/24/2026, 2:18:12 AM
File name
SSDBooster.exe
Size
3.38 MB
MIME type
(unknown)
Detected type
Win32 EXE
SHA-256
291e282a1574dda5ca191a456d0c01f0defb69b2a4b18e2b4bbbdf2c4362d15e
MD5
49f22135e2aa4a6abebc8cad0bc2ce07
SHA-1
74f790636a883b9f7075a4988d9ee298c9da2852
PE imphash
f34d5f2d4577ed6d9ceec516c1f5a744
First seen (VT)
1/27/2026, 3:09:17 PM
Last analysis (VT)
2/11/2026, 1:14:56 AM
First scan (MalwareTips)
4/21/2026, 2:13:31 PM
Last scan (MalwareTips)
4/24/2026, 2:18:12 AM
Code signer
Omid Sorooriinvalid
Behavior tags
overlayassemblylong-sleepspeexesigneddetect-debug-environment
Community classification

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