Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
151s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
23/04/2026, 04:57
General
- Target 2026-04-23_6f0e43411ddf71af9839ede0afde430b_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_njrat_remcos_stop.exe
- Size 4.4MB
- Sample260423-flrxcsbt7z
- SHA256 c58d4a9bdfb478c80db71a4e5c1d6997f7d4ff6cda622794e9aa0b71954f0b88
Malware Config
Extracted
-
xred
-
xred.mooo.com
-
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 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 3 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 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
-
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-23_6f0e43411ddf71af9839ede0afde430b_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_njrat_remcos_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-23_6f0e43411ddf71af9839ede0afde430b_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_njrat_remcos_stop.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
-
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-04-23_6f0e43411ddf71af9839ede0afde430b_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_njrat_remcos_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-04-23_6f0e43411ddf71af9839ede0afde430b_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_njrat_remcos_stop.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
-
-
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
-
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
-
-
-
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
-
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Windows\system32\._cache_Synaptics.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
-
-
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
Replay Monitor
Loading Replay Monitor...
Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-04-23_6f0e43411ddf71af9839ede0afde430b_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_gcleaner_glassworm_njrat_remcos_stop.exe
8j48yvqC.xlsm
A9385E00
Race Unlocker Log.log
Race Unlocker Log.log
Race Unlocker Log.log
memory/1004-309-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000874000-memory.dmp
memory/1004-420-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000874000-memory.dmp
memory/1004-421-0x00000000001D0000-0x00000000001DA000-memory.dmp
memory/1004-385-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000874000-memory.dmp
memory/1004-367-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000874000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-318-0x00007FFDDC630000-0x00007FFDDC640000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-370-0x00000278B2580000-0x00000278B2588000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-313-0x00007FFDDEE90000-0x00007FFDDEEA0000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-315-0x00007FFDDEE90000-0x00007FFDDEEA0000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-314-0x00007FFDDEE90000-0x00007FFDDEEA0000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-316-0x00007FFDDEE90000-0x00007FFDDEEA0000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-317-0x00007FFDDEE90000-0x00007FFDDEEA0000-memory.dmp
memory/2028-319-0x00007FFDDC630000-0x00007FFDDC640000-memory.dmp
memory/2688-312-0x00000000018E0000-0x00000000018EC000-memory.dmp
memory/3276-118-0x0000000000B80000-0x0000000000F3A000-memory.dmp
memory/3276-310-0x00000000017F0000-0x0000000001800000-memory.dmp
memory/3276-308-0x00000000016E0000-0x00000000016EC000-memory.dmp
memory/3276-126-0x00000000017F0000-0x0000000001800000-memory.dmp
memory/3280-0-0x0000000002600000-0x0000000002601000-memory.dmp
memory/3280-130-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000874000-memory.dmp
memory/3280-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/3336-279-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000874000-memory.dmp
memory/4324-311-0x0000000000F50000-0x0000000000F5C000-memory.dmp