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PoisonX8.sys

Malicious Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher 2025-03-25 VT 39/71
Driver Name
PoisonX8.sys
MD5
017c0af0e7a0d20435698be60551c3f5
SHA1
235865a817db2735ad3aa92f48296961a0940edc
SHA256
1ca2f1c00d54b14f0f50d54f11cb654eddcc0228967f9942a92f544c75d5bb37
Imphash
47c3554d0dee53d4f925ed52484bea12
Vhash
014066551d1516151iz13xz
Authentihash
1ce001eda18c7a0636c4053848a1ae69812704795ab057331903d7002d688027
Rich PE header hash
088a57b8b352520540d5f0b890dcb421
SSDEEP
192:+Np/y5vzVXpWlVHMEc+Pbp5GBe1VfNEwm1ahYCydn2O8xYqD0cSX01k9z3AT/ipe:+N85rVXcLr7GBJ1ah3yqvDyR9za/io
TLSH
T134924BD9493850C6DDABA83182EAED677C3DB7C307114AEB01A4F4A81E877D5E734A1C
Signer
Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
Signing date
2025-03-25
SpcSpOpusInfo
Autel Intelligent Technology Corp., Ltd.
VT detections
39/71
Compilation time
2025-03-24
PDB path
D:\Build\PoisonX\Hide\x64\Release\Hide.pdb
Country submitter
RO, United States, Poland, Luxembourg, Iraq, China, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey
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Malicious

Description

PoisonX is a malware component that operates as a process protector and concealer. Its main malicious capabilities are:

  • Killing processes: It provides an IOCTL interface (0x22e010) through which user-mode components can terminate any chosen process by calling ZwTerminateProcess.
  • Rootkit behavior: It hides processes and threads by hooking other kernel drivers. It uses ObReferenceObjectByName to find the target drivers, then replaces their function pointers so that execution is redirected into its own code.