Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
150s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
10/02/2026, 04:27
General
- Target 2026-02-10_c3125bc737ef32c58e5108e5e7e4376c_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm.exe
- Size 1.1MB
- Sample260210-e3fpzsb19b
- SHA256 85f8b4497ee9e842fd36c72f026081273bef3d522b028eea1916c9a30b8cc9c7
Malware Config
Extracted
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xred
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xred.mooo.com
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payload_url
http://freedns.afraid.org/api/?action=getdyndns&sha=a30fa98efc092684e8d1c5cff797bcc613562978
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSVlVsOGlEVGxuZVk&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1w4p8gc6jzo0sg/SUpdate.ini?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/SUpdate.ini
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSVzUyaHFYVkQxeFk&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zhp1b06imehwylq/Synaptics.rar?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/Synaptics.rar
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSTmlVYkxhSDg5TzQ&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzj752whr3ontsm/SSLLibrary.dll?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/SSLLibrary.dll
Signatures
- Detects Rubeus toolset 7 IoCs
- Rubeus
Rubeus is a toolset designed for raw Kerberos interaction, written in C#.
- Rubeus family
- Xred
Xred is backdoor written in Delphi.
- Xred family
- Executes dropped EXE 5 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
- Modifies registry class 3 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 11 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-02-10_c3125bc737ef32c58e5108e5e7e4376c_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-02-10_c3125bc737ef32c58e5108e5e7e4376c_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm.exe"1⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-02-10_c3125bc737ef32c58e5108e5e7e4376c_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-02-10_c3125bc737ef32c58e5108e5e7e4376c_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" /automation -Embedding1⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in System32 directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Windows\system32\._cache_Synaptics.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_Synaptics.exe.log
._cache_2026-02-10_c3125bc737ef32c58e5108e5e7e4376c_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm.exe
78685E00
QRQWlMN4.xlsm
memory/1864-127-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000527000-memory.dmp
memory/1864-0-0x0000000002300000-0x0000000002301000-memory.dmp
memory/1864-130-0x0000000000AE0000-0x0000000000B5A000-memory.dmp
memory/1864-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/2252-129-0x0000000000840000-0x00000000008AE000-memory.dmp
memory/2636-341-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000527000-memory.dmp
memory/2636-306-0x0000000000970000-0x00000000009EA000-memory.dmp
memory/2636-305-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000527000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-196-0x00007FFB02110000-0x00007FFB02120000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-250-0x00007FFAFF570000-0x00007FFAFF580000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-248-0x00007FFAFF570000-0x00007FFAFF580000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-193-0x00007FFB02110000-0x00007FFB02120000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-195-0x00007FFB02110000-0x00007FFB02120000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-194-0x00007FFB02110000-0x00007FFB02120000-memory.dmp
memory/3296-192-0x00007FFB02110000-0x00007FFB02120000-memory.dmp
memory/4796-260-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000527000-memory.dmp
memory/4796-261-0x0000000000980000-0x00000000009FA000-memory.dmp