Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    123s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260618-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260618-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    28/06/2026, 21:29

General

  • Target
    2026-06-28_79683fd9461550f184c15744f4ca7041_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 803KB
  • Sample260628-1b52fsfs7l
  • SHA256 825a9440dec6673ae634b700fed686e391430e963d8778d0af05716f5265893d
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
9/10

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Detects Reflective DLL injection artifacts 1 IoCs
  • Detects Windows exceutables bypassing UAC using CMSTP COM interfaces. MITRE (T1218.003) 1 IoCs
  • UPX dump on OEP (original entry point) 3 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 4 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 48 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Drops file in System32 directory 7 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 3 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 5 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 behavior: LoadsDriver 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 14 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-28_79683fd9461550f184c15744f4ca7041_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-28_79683fd9461550f184c15744f4ca7041_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:836
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\hrzvaudixm.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\hrzvaudixm.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\duxvxivqti.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-28_79683fd9461550f184c15744f4ca7041_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5652
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-28_79683fd9461550f184c15744f4ca7041_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-28_79683fd9461550f184c15744f4ca7041_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:2832
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\uxopnffmhq.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\uxopnffmhq.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4764
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:700
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:2944
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XA9mCSIa.bat"
        3⤵
          PID:2940
        • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:5236
    • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
      1⤵
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4252
      • 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:2220
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-2894455325-857903158-4263030270-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-2894455325-857903158-4263030270-10002 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" "1"
        2⤵
          PID:1496
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 844 2768 2760 824 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
          2⤵
            PID:4264
          • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 844 2784 2792 824 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
            2⤵
            • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
            PID:1676
          • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe3_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe3 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:5896
          • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 844 2768 2760 824 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
            2⤵
              PID:5392
            • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
              "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 844 2784 2792 824 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
              2⤵
                PID:5428

            Network

                  MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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                  Downloads

                  Windows.db

                  • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
                  • Size 1.1MB
                  • SHA256 3cadb2940e398ea4f9cb4d797a13418567238006e9c5e6bc73467c5423e1ec35
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                  Windows.db-wal

                  • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
                  • Size 1.3MB
                  • SHA256 cf164f95d19c438c7c5484ed4d7c4fe2c46c97133cf3e71e8538cae76f60e8ee
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                  XA9mCSIa.bat

                  • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\XA9mCSIa.bat
                  • Size 196B
                  • SHA256 f0ef3cf32f34cd425d919364d75ced92d9ab93bd0e94197725f165ffa8bae62d
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                  duxvxivqti.exe

                  • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\duxvxivqti.exe
                  • Size 97KB
                  • SHA256 711c8c1dfce8c124a8d6f2fa87ee2ad65552c42fc672f7a1ae80c6465f196f77
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                  hrzvaudixm.exe

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

                  uxopnffmhq.exe

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

                  trnmg.sdb

                  • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
                  • Size 1KB
                  • SHA256 f1dc64d2362c13e538f64e62534b1dfd8dc04270622556011e3c7b88286bdd8c
                  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                  bindsvc.exe

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

                  memory/2832-28-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000041D000-memory.dmp

                  memory/2832-49-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000041D000-memory.dmp

                  memory/4764-16-0x00000000006E0000-0x000000000085A000-memory.dmp

                  memory/4764-37-0x00000000006E0000-0x000000000085A000-memory.dmp