Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
150s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
02/05/2026, 03:26
General
- Target 2026-05-02_fd6d0fcd5fcec6c9db5bc6e632186107_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 2.2MB
- Sample260502-dzfedagy3x
- SHA256 cd934326b777fb6058e65f29b513fda4808f899442102d820f088ca1e09ec4f9
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 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 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
- Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs
The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-02_fd6d0fcd5fcec6c9db5bc6e632186107_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-02_fd6d0fcd5fcec6c9db5bc6e632186107_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\72F.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\72F.tmp" --splashC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-02_fd6d0fcd5fcec6c9db5bc6e632186107_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe B97FEB592EB5821D29B24AE043B4AFFA6A404E8229AB95FA2E74FFC7FD8E90930004FEFE258482E3BE1C558605B1927ED781437EFD76BB28DC10366B6ECAF9572⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" /n "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-02_fd6d0fcd5fcec6c9db5bc6e632186107_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx" /o ""3⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
2026-05-02_fd6d0fcd5fcec6c9db5bc6e632186107_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx
72F.tmp
memory/2372-25-0x00007FFF252F0000-0x00007FFF254E5000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-21-0x000001C7E57C0000-0x000001C7E57D0000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-39-0x000001C825780000-0x000001C82584D000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-38-0x00007FFF252F0000-0x00007FFF254E5000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-34-0x00007FFEE3310000-0x00007FFEE3320000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-33-0x000001C7E5790000-0x000001C7E57A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-17-0x00007FFEE5370000-0x00007FFEE5380000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-22-0x00007FFEE5370000-0x00007FFEE5380000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-20-0x00007FFF2538D000-0x00007FFF2538E000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-19-0x00007FFEE5370000-0x00007FFEE5380000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-32-0x00007FFEE3310000-0x00007FFEE3320000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-18-0x00007FFEE5370000-0x00007FFEE5380000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-28-0x00007FFF252F0000-0x00007FFF254E5000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-29-0x00007FFF252F0000-0x00007FFF254E5000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-27-0x00007FFF252F0000-0x00007FFF254E5000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-26-0x00007FFF252F0000-0x00007FFF254E5000-memory.dmp
memory/2372-24-0x00007FFEE5370000-0x00007FFEE5380000-memory.dmp
memory/4040-31-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000635000-memory.dmp
memory/4040-11-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000635000-memory.dmp
memory/4040-10-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000635000-memory.dmp
memory/4912-0-0x0000000000608000-0x0000000000609000-memory.dmp
memory/4912-2-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000635000-memory.dmp
memory/4912-3-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000635000-memory.dmp
memory/4912-9-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000635000-memory.dmp