Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
140s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260130-en - resource tags
- submitted
07/05/2026, 02:42
General
- Target 2026-05-07_8b48b05e7d8ed055e5abf10b8c4d4ee8_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_remcos_smoke-loader_stop.exe
- Size 1.0MB
- Sample260507-c7jlbses21
- SHA256 8b3faeaa7412c01242ba69391bb062012aa118d1891e9ac15b4888115cc33e76
Malware Config
Signatures
- Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 2 IoCs
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 23 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
- Drops file in Program Files directory 5 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 8 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 6 IoCs
Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 6 IoCs
- Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 32 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 27 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 6 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-07_8b48b05e7d8ed055e5abf10b8c4d4ee8_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_remcos_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-07_8b48b05e7d8ed055e5abf10b8c4d4ee8_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_remcos_smoke-loader_stop.exe"1⤵
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-05-07_8b48b05e7d8ed055e5abf10b8c4d4ee8_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_remcos_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-05-07_8b48b05e7d8ed055e5abf10b8c4d4ee8_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_remcos_smoke-loader_stop.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- Enumerates connected drives
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.execmd.exe /C schtasks /QUERY /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"3⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exeschtasks /QUERY /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"4⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.execmd.exe /C schtasks /CREATE /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\zXH.xml" /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"3⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exeschtasks /CREATE /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\zXH.xml" /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"4⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.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:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
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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 use of SetWindowsHookEx
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
chromehelper.exe
update.dll
B76BE66D46C355931939D8CF818D03FD_30070D1E013A39CA7A94F919F7922FDF
E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
B76BE66D46C355931939D8CF818D03FD_30070D1E013A39CA7A94F919F7922FDF
E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
B49642CE-11EF-4EBC-888C-35AFC5A4879B
mip_sdk.miplog
._cache_2026-05-07_8b48b05e7d8ed055e5abf10b8c4d4ee8_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_remcos_smoke-loader_stop.exe
2cugp.docm
78095E00
7D095E00
CYxo2.xlsm
aniMM.docm
zXH.xml
~WRD0000.tmp
~WRD0004.tmp
APASixthEditionOfficeOnline.xsl
CHICAGO.XSL
GB.XSL
GostName.XSL
GostTitle.XSL
HarvardAnglia2008OfficeOnline.xsl
IEEE2006OfficeOnline.xsl
ISO690Nmerical.XSL
MLASeventhEditionOfficeOnline.xsl
TURABIAN.XSL
index.dat
index.dat
index.dat
memory/236-671-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/236-672-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/236-325-0x000001A36D1A0000-0x000001A36D1B0000-memory.dmp
memory/236-675-0x000001A3AD140000-0x000001A3AD4B8000-memory.dmp
memory/236-674-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/236-673-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-109-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-112-0x0000020601EF0000-0x0000020601F00000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-684-0x0000020641E90000-0x0000020642208000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-113-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-117-0x00007FFDD62B0000-0x00007FFDD62C0000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-110-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-111-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-659-0x0000020641E90000-0x0000020642208000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-115-0x00007FFDD8590000-0x00007FFDD85A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2940-116-0x00007FFDD62B0000-0x00007FFDD62C0000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-658-0x0000000002320000-0x000000000232B000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-688-0x0000000002320000-0x000000000232B000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-706-0x0000000000700000-0x00000000007BB000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-704-0x0000000002320000-0x000000000232B000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-97-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B8000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-702-0x0000000000700000-0x00000000007BB000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-701-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B8000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-99-0x0000000000700000-0x00000000007BB000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-685-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B8000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-107-0x0000000000700000-0x00000000007BB000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-106-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B8000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-655-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B8000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-100-0x00000000021F0000-0x00000000021F6000-memory.dmp
memory/3936-656-0x0000000000700000-0x00000000007BB000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-64-0x0000000002330000-0x0000000002331000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-1-0x000000000048E000-0x000000000048F000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-0-0x0000000002330000-0x0000000002331000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-93-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000515000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-65-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000515000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-67-0x0000000002350000-0x0000000002356000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-66-0x0000000000A90000-0x0000000000B4B000-memory.dmp
memory/4292-94-0x0000000000A90000-0x0000000000B4B000-memory.dmp
memory/4972-126-0x0000000002400000-0x0000000002406000-memory.dmp
memory/4972-124-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004B8000-memory.dmp
memory/4972-125-0x0000000000A20000-0x0000000000ADB000-memory.dmp
memory/5084-62-0x0000000000B10000-0x0000000000BCB000-memory.dmp
memory/5084-63-0x00000000024A0000-0x00000000024A6000-memory.dmp