Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
150s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-en - resource tags
- submitted
14/07/2026, 23:34
General
- Target 2026-07-14_2d62e55a3eed89c11985b409aeb40d99_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_g.exe
- Size 902KB
- Sample260714-3kr73afv5p
- SHA256 062b6c74e45c46a163b507b12410b2c7254759b5b3c5087970b95b596900393d
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.
- Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 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 4 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 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-14_2d62e55a3eed89c11985b409aeb40d99_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_g.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-14_2d62e55a3eed89c11985b409aeb40d99_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_g.exe"1⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-07-14_2d62e55a3eed89c11985b409aeb40d99_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_g.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-07-14_2d62e55a3eed89c11985b409aeb40d99_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_g.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⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
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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
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-07-14_2d62e55a3eed89c11985b409aeb40d99_amadey_cobalt-strike_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_g.exe
D5195E00
p9Nq4CHW.xlsm
memory/2848-104-0x00007FFA94610000-0x00007FFA94620000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-96-0x00007FFA97340000-0x00007FFA97350000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-97-0x00007FFA97340000-0x00007FFA97350000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-98-0x00007FFA97340000-0x00007FFA97350000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-99-0x00007FFA97340000-0x00007FFA97350000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-100-0x00007FFA97340000-0x00007FFA97350000-memory.dmp
memory/2848-103-0x00007FFA94610000-0x00007FFA94620000-memory.dmp
memory/3556-102-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4180-0-0x00000000022A0000-0x00000000022A1000-memory.dmp
memory/4180-94-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E7000-memory.dmp
memory/4180-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/5548-140-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5548-167-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp