Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    140s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20250619-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20250619-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    11/05/2026, 10:33

General

  • Target
    2026-05-11_4a785d005ef7381064fe7b710cbc1f9b_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 731KB
  • Sample260511-mlk75sft6t
  • SHA256 98a04e59d2d83a9b763869b7ce57cfff23b60fa65206de4952974eecbad9ef7e
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
9/10

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Detects Reflective DLL injection artifacts 2 IoCs
  • Detects Windows exceutables bypassing UAC using CMSTP COM interfaces. MITRE (T1218.003) 2 IoCs
  • UPX dump on OEP (original entry point) 4 IoCs
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • Executes dropped EXE 4 IoCs
  • Drops file in System32 directory 8 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 4 IoCs

    Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

  • Launches sc.exe 1 IoCs

    Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 4 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 26 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 9 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-11_4a785d005ef7381064fe7b710cbc1f9b_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-11_4a785d005ef7381064fe7b710cbc1f9b_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • Checks computer location settings
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2488
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\wfkyaxhnpy.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\wfkyaxhnpy.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\qtgmxctaal.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-11_4a785d005ef7381064fe7b710cbc1f9b_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
      2⤵
      • Checks computer location settings
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5328
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-11_4a785d005ef7381064fe7b710cbc1f9b_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-11_4a785d005ef7381064fe7b710cbc1f9b_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:5676
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nzummvcvqp.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nzummvcvqp.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5688
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:5148
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:2080
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\eckZQtbR.bat"
        3⤵
          PID:1840
        • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:5176
    • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
      1⤵
      • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1304
      • C:\Windows\system32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe1_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe1 1 -2147483646 "Software\Microsoft\Windows Search" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT; MS Search 4.0 Robot)" "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Temp\usgthrsvc" "DownLevelDaemon"
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:3264
      • C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 0 800 804 812 8192 808 784
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:2096

    Network

          MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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          Downloads

          eckZQtbR.bat

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\eckZQtbR.bat
          • Size 196B
          • SHA256 7e6edced0715d1fa481c1dbe52888061fb7f79f1b51d418573cee428ed8261b5
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          nzummvcvqp.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nzummvcvqp.exe
          • Size 580KB
          • SHA256 3ab288c47914e33cc61985e46502158400faa9d7187b55c19039b8795504a290
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          qtgmxctaal.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\qtgmxctaal.exe
          • Size 25KB
          • SHA256 b3f3be2eeda8c739b27b3728392fe9789c9e559d6ff6c9dd2e96eeba5064a5d3
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          wfkyaxhnpy.exe

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\wfkyaxhnpy.exe
          • Size 51KB
          • SHA256 c25d90168fc2026d8ed2a69c066bd5a7e11004c3899928a7db24cb7636fc4d9e
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          trnmg.sdb

          • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
          • Size 1KB
          • SHA256 2838f2fb4ae598443751a082a00549bcd691d4e2a6ac2278558259a09e6f74de
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

          bindsvc.exe

          • Path C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
          • Size 291KB
          • SHA256 d032bdc64c9451bbb653b346c5bd6ac9f83a91edeb0155497f098c8d6182ddee
          • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

          memory/1304-22-0x0000024724150000-0x0000024724160000-memory.dmp

          memory/1304-38-0x0000024724250000-0x0000024724260000-memory.dmp

          memory/1304-54-0x000002472C740000-0x000002472C748000-memory.dmp

          memory/1304-68-0x000002472E560000-0x000002472E568000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-97-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-105-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-75-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-86-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-85-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-84-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-83-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-82-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-81-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-80-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-79-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-78-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-77-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-87-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-88-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-89-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-92-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-91-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-90-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-93-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-95-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-102-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-101-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-100-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-99-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-98-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-74-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-96-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-94-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-103-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-104-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-76-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-106-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-107-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-108-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-109-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-118-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-117-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-116-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-115-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-114-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-113-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-112-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-111-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-110-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-119-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-120-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-121-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-124-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-123-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-122-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-125-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-127-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-128-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-126-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-71-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-72-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2096-73-0x000001D32DF80000-0x000001D32DF90000-memory.dmp

          memory/2488-15-0x0000000003400000-0x00000000034E3000-memory.dmp

          memory/5328-70-0x0000000000E00000-0x0000000000E7A000-memory.dmp

          memory/5688-171-0x00000000002E0000-0x000000000045A000-memory.dmp

          memory/5688-16-0x00000000002E0000-0x000000000045A000-memory.dmp

          memory/5688-181-0x00000000002E0000-0x000000000045A000-memory.dmp