Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
151s - platform
windows11-21h2_x64 - resource
win11-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
23/05/2026, 17:42
General
- Target 2026-05-23_143c7c4cee1e2e488f678de268a3644d_amadey_elex_manuscrypt_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe
- Size 4.1MB
- Sample260523-v949xsav21
- SHA256 561e94044129a21b667e5c7d2125f9f457ec8d9d808eab774399300feeab2e40
Malware Config
Signatures
- Family: Glupteba
Glupteba is a modular loader written in Golang with various components.
- Glupteba payload 22 IoCs
- Detects Windows executables referencing non-Windows User-Agents 20 IoCs
- Detects executables Discord URL observed in first stage droppers 20 IoCs
- Detects executables containing URLs to raw contents of a Github gist 20 IoCs
- Detects executables referencing many varying, potentially fake Windows User-Agents 20 IoCs
- Modifies Windows Firewall 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Executes dropped EXE 6 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
- Checks installed software on the system 1 TTPs
Looks up Uninstall key entries in the registry to enumerate software on the system.
- Manipulates WinMonFS driver. 1 IoCs
Roottkits write to WinMonFS to hide directories/files from being detected.
- Checks for VirtualBox DLLs, possible anti-VM trick 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Certain files are specific to VirtualBox VMs and can be used to detect execution in a VM.
- Drops file in Windows directory 2 IoCs
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
Netsh.exe (also referred to as Netshell) is a command-line scripting utility used to interact with the network configuration of a system.
- Program crash 5 IoCs
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 7 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 7 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 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.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-23_143c7c4cee1e2e488f678de268a3644d_amadey_elex_manuscrypt_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-23_143c7c4cee1e2e488f678de268a3644d_amadey_elex_manuscrypt_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-23_143c7c4cee1e2e488f678de268a3644d_amadey_elex_manuscrypt_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-05-23_143c7c4cee1e2e488f678de268a3644d_amadey_elex_manuscrypt_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"2⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- Checks for VirtualBox DLLs, possible anti-VM trick
- Drops file in Windows directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exeC:\Windows\Sysnative\cmd.exe /C "netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="csrss" dir=in action=allow program="C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" enable=yes"3⤵
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="csrss" dir=in action=allow program="C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" enable=yes4⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exeC:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Adds Run key to start application
- Manipulates WinMonFS driver.
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\schtasks.exeschtasks /CREATE /SC ONLOGON /RL HIGHEST /TR "C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" /TN csrss /F4⤵
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\schtasks.exeschtasks /delete /tn ScheduledUpdate /f4⤵
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\csrss\injector\injector.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\csrss\injector\injector.exe taskmgr.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\csrss\injector\NtQuerySystemInformationHook.dll4⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
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C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\schtasks.exeschtasks /CREATE /SC ONLOGON /RL HIGHEST /TR "C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" /TN csrss /F4⤵
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 3844 -s 8203⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 436 -p 3844 -ip 38441⤵
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 5904 -s 8443⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 1116 -s 8522⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 416 -p 1116 -ip 11161⤵
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exeC:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 5348 -s 7443⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 1180 -s 6162⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 552 -p 5904 -ip 59041⤵
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 544 -p 1180 -ip 11801⤵
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 540 -p 5348 -ip 53481⤵
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Persistence
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Create or Modify System Process
1Windows Service
1Event Triggered Execution
1Netsh Helper DLL
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Privilege Escalation
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Create or Modify System Process
1Windows Service
1Event Triggered Execution
1Netsh Helper DLL
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Defense Evasion
Impair Defenses
1Disable or Modify System Firewall
1Modify Registry
1Replay Monitor
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Downloads
injector.exe
csrss.exe
memory/1116-17-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/1180-28-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3224-2-0x0000000002F70000-0x00000000037E7000-memory.dmp
memory/3224-5-0x0000000002F70000-0x00000000037E7000-memory.dmp
memory/3224-3-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3224-1-0x0000000002B80000-0x0000000002F6F000-memory.dmp
memory/3844-6-0x0000000002BD0000-0x0000000002FC1000-memory.dmp
memory/3844-12-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-36-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-35-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-43-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-31-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-32-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-33-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-34-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-29-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-42-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-37-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-38-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-39-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-40-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/4012-41-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/5348-30-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/5904-25-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp