Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
146s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
04/05/2026, 11:19
General
- Target 2026-05-04_a5105647a5b856135aec9b6a8be93c54_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 7.2MB
- Sample260504-netrdadx8p
- SHA256 25a824f70a0b56815bacb66c35aab94788c07f349d30b62ad55dc3adf00f5177
Malware Config
Signatures
- 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\2026-05-04_a5105647a5b856135aec9b6a8be93c54_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-04_a5105647a5b856135aec9b6a8be93c54_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\D8DB.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\D8DB.tmp" --splashC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-04_a5105647a5b856135aec9b6a8be93c54_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe B5132EC114BD915BF8904CE378239DD049F3A5852DD5424A01C8591348C291401DF06E517F8E193F26DB5F88E8C6CD26A8AE44B1FE1D1B5B05612B987AEBD0B82⤵
- 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\2026-05-04_a5105647a5b856135aec9b6a8be93c54_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
2026-05-04_a5105647a5b856135aec9b6a8be93c54_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx
D8DB.tmp
memory/336-20-0x00007FFB56AF0000-0x00007FFB56B00000-memory.dmp
memory/336-24-0x00007FFB54740000-0x00007FFB54750000-memory.dmp
memory/336-34-0x000001A67FFC0000-0x000001A67FFF1000-memory.dmp
memory/336-25-0x00007FFB54740000-0x00007FFB54750000-memory.dmp
memory/336-17-0x00007FFB56AF0000-0x00007FFB56B00000-memory.dmp
memory/336-18-0x00007FFB56AF0000-0x00007FFB56B00000-memory.dmp
memory/336-21-0x00007FFB56AF0000-0x00007FFB56B00000-memory.dmp
memory/336-19-0x00007FFB56AF0000-0x00007FFB56B00000-memory.dmp
memory/2060-0-0x000000000060A000-0x000000000060B000-memory.dmp
memory/2060-2-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000B5F000-memory.dmp
memory/2060-4-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000B5F000-memory.dmp
memory/2060-10-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000B5F000-memory.dmp
memory/2060-30-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000B5F000-memory.dmp
memory/2060-3-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000B5F000-memory.dmp
memory/4616-11-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000B5F000-memory.dmp
memory/4616-23-0x0000000002AB0000-0x0000000002B32000-memory.dmp
memory/4616-22-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000B5F000-memory.dmp