Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
117s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
19/04/2026, 03:44
General
- Target 2026-04-19_468551790f42f8cb35433a77866ee794_amadey_elex_smoke-loader_stealc.exe
- Size 2.7MB
- Sample260419-eakhgab14r
- SHA256 56f8d04cc6c7a41dd84fc0e167878d5ec70c2290af8fde3780874094ae3dd9a0
Malware Config
Signatures
- Detects executables built or packed with MPress PE compressor 3 IoCs
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 1 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.
- System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Adversaries may check for Internet connectivity on compromised systems.
- Modifies system certificate store 2 TTPs 5 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-19_468551790f42f8cb35433a77866ee794_amadey_elex_smoke-loader_stealc.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-19_468551790f42f8cb35433a77866ee794_amadey_elex_smoke-loader_stealc.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3803.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\3803.tmp" --pingC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-19_468551790f42f8cb35433a77866ee794_amadey_elex_smoke-loader_stealc.exe A7B0D8A9A9CC631206057726F15BFF4A7257C486456F40DDEF09C99E5D39544C80FF1EDDA21FD2776E5E052330BF8A67014236F36DC233009C78281067A4FEF52⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-19_468551790f42f8cb35433a77866ee794_amadey_elex_smoke-loader_stealc.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-19_468551790f42f8cb35433a77866ee794_amadey_elex_smoke-loader_stealc.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies system certificate store
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Defense Evasion
Modify Registry
1Subvert Trust Controls
1Install Root Certificate
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Downloads
downloader.dll
2026-04-19_468551790f42f8cb35433a77866ee794_amadey_elex_smoke-loader_stealc.exe
3803.tmp
memory/4640-15-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B4000-memory.dmp
memory/4640-43-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B4000-memory.dmp
memory/4640-44-0x0000000002130000-0x000000000222E000-memory.dmp
memory/4640-45-0x0000000004180000-0x00000000041A7000-memory.dmp
memory/4640-46-0x0000000004A30000-0x0000000004A5E000-memory.dmp
memory/4640-52-0x0000000002130000-0x000000000222E000-memory.dmp