Analysis
- max time kernel
9s - max time network
124s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-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.
- 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.
- Modifies registry class 3 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 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⤵
- 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⤵
- 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:\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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C:\Windows\system32\AUDIODG.EXEC:\Windows\system32\AUDIODG.EXE 0x0000000000000460 0x00000000000004E81⤵
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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
memory/912-0-0x0000000002410000-0x0000000002411000-memory.dmp
memory/912-128-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/912-129-0x0000000000AA0000-0x0000000000B1A000-memory.dmp
memory/912-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-256-0x00000000008E0000-0x000000000095A000-memory.dmp
memory/2872-257-0x0000000000910000-0x000000000098A000-memory.dmp
memory/3520-344-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/3520-252-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/3520-253-0x00000000009F0000-0x0000000000A6A000-memory.dmp
memory/4000-251-0x0000000000A80000-0x0000000000AFA000-memory.dmp
memory/4036-254-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4036-275-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4036-291-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4036-318-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000539000-memory.dmp
memory/4036-255-0x0000000000960000-0x00000000009DA000-memory.dmp