Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
156s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
16/05/2026, 10:29
General
- Target 2026-05-16_8b03b2947ae1b26b0a3b834652e93b26_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 951KB
- Sample260516-mh9fkacx21
- SHA256 345e0ce72888f251b4b0b813f473b87e61cc89454d0cd2a09100737910d1e50a
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.
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- 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.
- 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 3 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-16_8b03b2947ae1b26b0a3b834652e93b26_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-16_8b03b2947ae1b26b0a3b834652e93b26_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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_2026-05-16_8b03b2947ae1b26b0a3b834652e93b26_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-05-16_8b03b2947ae1b26b0a3b834652e93b26_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- 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
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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 behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-05-16_8b03b2947ae1b26b0a3b834652e93b26_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader.exe
B9B85E00
uuluhREo.xlsm
memory/1276-0-0x0000000002140000-0x0000000002141000-memory.dmp
memory/1276-101-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/1276-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/1612-172-0x00007FF9F4150000-0x00007FF9F4160000-memory.dmp
memory/1612-173-0x00007FF9F4150000-0x00007FF9F4160000-memory.dmp
memory/1612-174-0x00007FF9F4150000-0x00007FF9F4160000-memory.dmp
memory/1612-175-0x00007FF9F4150000-0x00007FF9F4160000-memory.dmp
memory/1612-176-0x00007FF9F4150000-0x00007FF9F4160000-memory.dmp
memory/1612-177-0x00007FF9F1890000-0x00007FF9F18A0000-memory.dmp
memory/1612-178-0x00007FF9F1890000-0x00007FF9F18A0000-memory.dmp
memory/2272-170-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-103-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-180-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-102-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-226-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-227-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-233-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-236-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-240-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp
memory/4112-256-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F4000-memory.dmp