Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
154s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
22/04/2026, 21:34
General
- Target 2026-04-22_4f5e3b26813d010676d0b869c52c29bc_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_stop.exe
- Size 1.3MB
- Sample260422-1e7dpact7w
- SHA256 ba5ec029e2a6c9fd28c965730eeeaceb5bb6e0fa0294e413256fb8eda2133822
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.
- 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 6 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 15 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-22_4f5e3b26813d010676d0b869c52c29bc_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-22_4f5e3b26813d010676d0b869c52c29bc_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_stop.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_2026-04-22_4f5e3b26813d010676d0b869c52c29bc_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-04-22_4f5e3b26813d010676d0b869c52c29bc_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_stop.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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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
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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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
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-04-22_4f5e3b26813d010676d0b869c52c29bc_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_stop.exe
B0285E00
G41wEp4i.xlsm
memory/692-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/692-130-0x0000000000AD0000-0x0000000000C1D000-memory.dmp
memory/692-129-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000055E000-memory.dmp
memory/692-0-0x0000000002400000-0x0000000002401000-memory.dmp
memory/784-265-0x0000000003050000-0x000000000319D000-memory.dmp
memory/1444-133-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000055E000-memory.dmp
memory/1444-355-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000055E000-memory.dmp
memory/1444-329-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000055E000-memory.dmp
memory/1444-318-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000055E000-memory.dmp
memory/1444-309-0x0000000000990000-0x0000000000ADD000-memory.dmp
memory/1444-307-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000055E000-memory.dmp
memory/1656-262-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000055E000-memory.dmp
memory/1656-263-0x0000000000970000-0x0000000000ABD000-memory.dmp
memory/2148-192-0x0000000002F10000-0x000000000305D000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-118-0x0000000003020000-0x000000000316D000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-201-0x00007FF9E3190000-0x00007FF9E31A0000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-197-0x00007FF9E5430000-0x00007FF9E5440000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-250-0x000001966E380000-0x000001966E390000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-251-0x00007FF9E3190000-0x00007FF9E31A0000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-196-0x00007FF9E5430000-0x00007FF9E5440000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-310-0x00000196AE2E0000-0x00000196AEA8E000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-193-0x00007FF9E5430000-0x00007FF9E5440000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-194-0x00007FF9E5430000-0x00007FF9E5440000-memory.dmp
memory/5076-195-0x00007FF9E5430000-0x00007FF9E5440000-memory.dmp