Analysis
- max time kernel
17s - max time network
159s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
15/04/2026, 04:32
General
- Target X-Scan-v3.3/Update.exe
- Size 1.5MB
- Sample260415-e55f5ah171
- SHA256 abf3e0c3f393d0429fe8721f57644ad880d414213bb9cd2524dcb8495274fc7e
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
- Family: Xred
Xred is backdoor written in Delphi.
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 7 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 8 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Modifies registry class 3 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 8 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 6 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\X-Scan-v3.3\Update.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\X-Scan-v3.3\Update.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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\X-Scan-v3.3\._cache_Update.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\X-Scan-v3.3\._cache_Update.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Upd7BC.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Upd7BC.tmp"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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\X-Scan-v3.3\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\X-Scan-v3.3\._cache_Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Upd7BC.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Upd7BC.tmp"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" /automation -Embedding1⤵
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
AD385E00
._cache_Update.exe
YsXfhnVu.xlsm
memory/1732-179-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004DF000-memory.dmp
memory/1732-105-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004DF000-memory.dmp
memory/2256-191-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004DF000-memory.dmp
memory/2448-242-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004DF000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-239-0x00000000046A0000-0x00000000046DB000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-238-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000058A000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-298-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000058A000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-240-0x00000000061B0000-0x00000000061BB000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-241-0x00000000062D0000-0x00000000063AB000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-334-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000058A000-memory.dmp
memory/4388-110-0x00000000046A0000-0x00000000046DB000-memory.dmp
memory/4388-109-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000058A000-memory.dmp
memory/4388-0-0x0000000000840000-0x0000000000841000-memory.dmp
memory/4388-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/4896-189-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004DF000-memory.dmp
memory/5196-184-0x00007FFEC63F0000-0x00007FFEC6400000-memory.dmp
memory/5196-190-0x00007FFEC3AF0000-0x00007FFEC3B00000-memory.dmp
memory/5196-185-0x00007FFEC3AF0000-0x00007FFEC3B00000-memory.dmp
memory/5196-181-0x00007FFEC63F0000-0x00007FFEC6400000-memory.dmp
memory/5196-182-0x00007FFEC63F0000-0x00007FFEC6400000-memory.dmp
memory/5196-183-0x00007FFEC63F0000-0x00007FFEC6400000-memory.dmp
memory/5196-180-0x00007FFEC63F0000-0x00007FFEC6400000-memory.dmp
memory/5240-235-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000058A000-memory.dmp
memory/5240-236-0x0000000002950000-0x000000000298B000-memory.dmp
memory/5240-237-0x00000000045D0000-0x00000000046AB000-memory.dmp
memory/5476-97-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004DF000-memory.dmp
memory/5476-43-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004DF000-memory.dmp