Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
135s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
23/04/2026, 04:46
General
- Target 2026-04-23_67a0a65841fc5ffefdbda3574305bb91_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 905KB
- Sample260423-feecpaa161
- SHA256 ffdf3eb1411f87119b8f4bbbaff8c8787e3f8a01ffe55fa020ff80bba3dfbf6f
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 4 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-23_67a0a65841fc5ffefdbda3574305bb91_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-23_67a0a65841fc5ffefdbda3574305bb91_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader.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_2026-04-23_67a0a65841fc5ffefdbda3574305bb91_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-04-23_67a0a65841fc5ffefdbda3574305bb91_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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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
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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
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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
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-04-23_67a0a65841fc5ffefdbda3574305bb91_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader.exe
qdBlmuIX.xlsm
memory/568-252-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E8000-memory.dmp
memory/568-253-0x0000000000930000-0x00000000009EB000-memory.dmp
memory/904-259-0x00007FFBBBF90000-0x00007FFBBBFA0000-memory.dmp
memory/904-273-0x000001F289D10000-0x000001F289D19000-memory.dmp
memory/904-303-0x000001F28A270000-0x000001F28A2DF000-memory.dmp
memory/904-256-0x00007FFBBE1B0000-0x00007FFBBE1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/904-279-0x000001F28A270000-0x000001F28A2DF000-memory.dmp
memory/904-257-0x00007FFBBE1B0000-0x00007FFBBE1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/904-255-0x00007FFBBE1B0000-0x00007FFBBE1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/904-254-0x00007FFBBE1B0000-0x00007FFBBE1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/904-258-0x00007FFBBE1B0000-0x00007FFBBE1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/904-272-0x000001F28A270000-0x000001F28A2DF000-memory.dmp
memory/904-260-0x00007FFBBBF90000-0x00007FFBBBFA0000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-271-0x0000000000A40000-0x0000000000AFB000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-322-0x0000000000A40000-0x0000000000AFB000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-130-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E8000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-342-0x0000000000A40000-0x0000000000AFB000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-269-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E8000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-321-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E8000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-285-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E8000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-296-0x0000000000A40000-0x0000000000AFB000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-301-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E8000-memory.dmp
memory/2108-302-0x0000000000A40000-0x0000000000AFB000-memory.dmp
memory/3960-0-0x0000000002300000-0x0000000002301000-memory.dmp
memory/3960-128-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E8000-memory.dmp
memory/3960-129-0x0000000000A70000-0x0000000000B2B000-memory.dmp
memory/3960-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp