Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
146s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
17/04/2026, 01:38
General
- Target 2026-04-17_569973eb57f4fbe95551fb39e92c34c8_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_emotet_hijackloader_icedid_luc.exe
- Size 596KB
- Sample260417-b2dmfsdv4k
- SHA256 6c1aeae61b77da67541d260f749b8926215725ed0e05e0ecc0c186676c94b1ff
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 20 IoCs
- Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
- Drops file in Program Files directory 39 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 16 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-17_569973eb57f4fbe95551fb39e92c34c8_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_emotet_hijackloader_icedid_luc.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-17_569973eb57f4fbe95551fb39e92c34c8_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_emotet_hijackloader_icedid_luc.exe"1⤵
- Drops file in System32 directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\adobearmhelper32.exe"adobearmhelper32.exe "2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"3⤵
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"4⤵
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\eventviewer.exe"C:\Windows\system32\eventviewer.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
reader_sl.exe
ArmReport.ini
RdrManifest2.msi
103621DE9CD5414CC2538780B4B75751
8B3C0310C2EA810C48E449EA75059E8A
103621DE9CD5414CC2538780B4B75751
103621DE9CD5414CC2538780B4B75751
8B3C0310C2EA810C48E449EA75059E8A
8B3C0310C2EA810C48E449EA75059E8A
2026-04-17_569973eb57f4fbe95551fb39e92c34c8_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_emotet_hijackloader_icedid_luc.exe
ArmUI.ini
Tmp3227.tmp
Tmp633B.tmp
Tmp634C.tmp
adobearmhelper32.exe
adobearmhelper32.exe
tmpF076.tmp
eventviewer.exe
syslog.exe
memory/3852-98-0x0000000001710000-0x00000000017CF000-memory.dmp
memory/3852-133-0x0000000001710000-0x00000000017CF000-memory.dmp
memory/3852-298-0x0000000001710000-0x00000000017CF000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-461-0x0000000005590000-0x0000000005EF0000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-316-0x0000000000950000-0x0000000000A0F000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-367-0x0000000000950000-0x0000000000A0F000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-389-0x0000000000950000-0x0000000000A0F000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-300-0x0000000000950000-0x0000000000A0F000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-536-0x0000000000950000-0x0000000000A0F000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-537-0x0000000005590000-0x0000000005B3E000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-561-0x00000000006B0000-0x00000000006D6000-memory.dmp
memory/4736-97-0x0000000000950000-0x0000000000A0F000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-380-0x0000000002200000-0x000000000225F000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-96-0x0000000002200000-0x000000000225F000-memory.dmp
memory/4980-10-0x00000000017C0000-0x000000000187F000-memory.dmp