Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
143s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
03/07/2026, 02:20
General
- Target 2026-07-03_fd290a173dd22fb58a7f2fb57625afd4_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 2.0MB
- Sample260703-css68aez6m
- SHA256 68529b2f063e3e4dbe8b56500ad439fcb33d857515a2ea6242974a7f33ece35d
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 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 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 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.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-03_fd290a173dd22fb58a7f2fb57625afd4_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-03_fd290a173dd22fb58a7f2fb57625afd4_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4A43.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4A43.tmp" --splashC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-03_fd290a173dd22fb58a7f2fb57625afd4_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe E6FBBFF74BA0199E6C83F80BF02FCC63FF7C6BBC52DF158506F27178666C2369CE72F6ECF66A2D1EAFE3EF88F57A0A36309F675748237553BE9C5315945CC8622⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" /n "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-03_fd290a173dd22fb58a7f2fb57625afd4_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx" /o ""3⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
2026-07-03_fd290a173dd22fb58a7f2fb57625afd4_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx
4A43.tmp
memory/1084-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp
memory/2100-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-15-0x00007FFB5E1B0000-0x00007FFB5E1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-21-0x00007FFB9E130000-0x00007FFB9E325000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-12-0x00007FFB5E1B0000-0x00007FFB5E1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-16-0x00007FFB9E130000-0x00007FFB9E325000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-11-0x00007FFB5E1B0000-0x00007FFB5E1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-14-0x00007FFB9E1CD000-0x00007FFB9E1CE000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-19-0x00007FFB9E130000-0x00007FFB9E325000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-13-0x00007FFB5E1B0000-0x00007FFB5E1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-20-0x00007FFB9E130000-0x00007FFB9E325000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-18-0x00007FFB9E130000-0x00007FFB9E325000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-17-0x00007FFB5E1B0000-0x00007FFB5E1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-22-0x00007FFB5BF20000-0x00007FFB5BF30000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-23-0x00007FFB5BF20000-0x00007FFB5BF30000-memory.dmp
memory/5072-28-0x00007FFB9E130000-0x00007FFB9E325000-memory.dmp