Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
145s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
26/04/2026, 01:57
General
- Target 2026-04-26_8ba3ba640484d40b992ccf0caa39f5c9_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 1.2MB
- Sample260426-cdqsjsdz8q
- SHA256 a8b8d5ad6ec7906eec6841345a488e537dd47f6aa6ad2905724699a58e7ffb66
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.
- 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 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 12 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-26_8ba3ba640484d40b992ccf0caa39f5c9_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-04-26_8ba3ba640484d40b992ccf0caa39f5c9_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.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
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-04-26_8ba3ba640484d40b992ccf0caa39f5c9_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-04-26_8ba3ba640484d40b992ccf0caa39f5c9_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.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⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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⤵
- 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
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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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C:\Windows\system32\AUDIODG.EXEC:\Windows\system32\AUDIODG.EXE 0x150 0x4581⤵
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-04-26_8ba3ba640484d40b992ccf0caa39f5c9_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe
21F75E00
iBUkmy4M.xlsm
memory/1824-429-0x0000013546E50000-0x0000013546EFC000-memory.dmp
memory/1824-322-0x0000013546E50000-0x0000013546EFC000-memory.dmp
memory/1976-128-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/1976-129-0x00000000009A0000-0x0000000000A1A000-memory.dmp
memory/1976-0-0x0000000002200000-0x0000000002201000-memory.dmp
memory/1976-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/4444-130-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4444-131-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4444-381-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4444-338-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4444-312-0x0000000000780000-0x00000000007FA000-memory.dmp
memory/4444-309-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4944-265-0x0000000000670000-0x00000000006EA000-memory.dmp
memory/4944-264-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-310-0x0000000000960000-0x00000000009DA000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-200-0x00007FFA94B90000-0x00007FFA94BA0000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-198-0x00007FFA94B90000-0x00007FFA94BA0000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-197-0x00007FFA97190000-0x00007FFA971A0000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-196-0x0000015154EB0000-0x0000015154EC0000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-314-0x0000015194EB0000-0x0000015194F5C000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-195-0x00007FFA97190000-0x00007FFA971A0000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-193-0x00007FFA97190000-0x00007FFA971A0000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-194-0x00007FFA97190000-0x00007FFA971A0000-memory.dmp
memory/5136-192-0x00007FFA97190000-0x00007FFA971A0000-memory.dmp
memory/5304-321-0x0000000000640000-0x00000000006BA000-memory.dmp
memory/5432-313-0x0000000000570000-0x00000000005EA000-memory.dmp