Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260629-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260629-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    29/06/2026, 19:09

General

  • Target
    2026-06-25_ea5de100c725924a81675cec1dc325fc_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 4.6MB
  • Sample260629-xt7ffsds71
  • SHA256 d3044a144e3ff5cb3add762c3b252bad48a1ad3a27aa60d1bfd1a541d49eb649
  • 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
  • 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 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 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 13 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-25_ea5de100c725924a81675cec1dc325fc_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-25_ea5de100c725924a81675cec1dc325fc_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1420
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ascnrqxosb.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ascnrqxosb.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\idpwmwgutj.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-25_ea5de100c725924a81675cec1dc325fc_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:5972
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-25_ea5de100c725924a81675cec1dc325fc_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-06-25_ea5de100c725924a81675cec1dc325fc_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:2428
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\czhmmiovcf.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\czhmmiovcf.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:692
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:5728
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:2848
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\aOcmGftk.bat"
        3⤵
          PID:3680
        • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
          3⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:4044
    • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
      C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
      1⤵
      • Enumerates connected drives
      • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3360
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-3865087520-2734723108-1233268525-10001_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-3865087520-2734723108-1233268525-10001 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:6008
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe2_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe2 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:4132
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3056 3064 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
          2⤵
          • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
          PID:3796
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3032 3020 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
          2⤵
          • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
          PID:6060
        • 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:6124
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3056 3064 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
          2⤵
            PID:2460
          • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3032 3020 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
            2⤵
              PID:4032

          Network

                MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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                Downloads

                Windows.db

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
                • Size 1.0MB
                • SHA256 28b812b3d4d1e3b1d8b12424936739d1c7f5f4418b107c2925e8ff337a371782
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                Windows.db-wal

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
                • Size 1.4MB
                • SHA256 790e4d55470c54268849e69fdbd0a6e111b05993f4e00cdd62cab011dc274df4
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                aOcmGftk.bat

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\aOcmGftk.bat
                • Size 196B
                • SHA256 893c248d40aa389b6268930b5625ec7f509666a0e5a516ed0f7b9e140455f829
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                ascnrqxosb.exe

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

                czhmmiovcf.exe

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

                idpwmwgutj.exe

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\idpwmwgutj.exe
                • Size 3.9MB
                • SHA256 8f9e616bd67d85e8c94b0383d2ac14b73461345864789c1cc9c11442425cdeb5
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                trnmg.sdb

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
                • Size 1KB
                • SHA256 6dc76a1eaddbf740454ee5fc659fd549ca4d832d3a2e1f2e2b0eb38764e33284
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                bindsvc.exe

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

                memory/692-17-0x0000000000DB0000-0x0000000000F2A000-memory.dmp

                memory/692-25-0x0000000000DB0000-0x0000000000F2A000-memory.dmp

                memory/692-34-0x0000000000DB0000-0x0000000000F2A000-memory.dmp