Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
150s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
29/07/2026, 17:07
General
- Target 2026-07-29_ba804d5f529898a989cf707e05c22361_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 2.0MB
- Sample260729-vm34cabh33
- SHA256 0d6a67711200364be4670c51a2ae44f3274c6cd12d3261d3a8671ceca9d90ff8
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\2026-07-29_ba804d5f529898a989cf707e05c22361_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-29_ba804d5f529898a989cf707e05c22361_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\18C3.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\18C3.tmp" --splashC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-07-29_ba804d5f529898a989cf707e05c22361_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe 9220F60075D1D46F87A17B913978ED6EF4846A24B280644FE9A39B12BE83607C015C86D24E315569E9DECD6B0316487BCA521382DFEA7FEAA5634C541CFE4DAF2⤵
- 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\2026-07-29_ba804d5f529898a989cf707e05c22361_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
18C3.tmp
2026-07-29_ba804d5f529898a989cf707e05c22361_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx
memory/2260-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-23-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-25-0x00007FFAE1FF0000-0x00007FFAE2000000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-15-0x00007FFAE4390000-0x00007FFAE43A0000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-19-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-21-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-20-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-22-0x00007FFAE1FF0000-0x00007FFAE2000000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-29-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-24-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-13-0x00007FFAE4390000-0x00007FFAE43A0000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-18-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-17-0x00007FFB24310000-0x00007FFB24505000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-16-0x00007FFAE4390000-0x00007FFAE43A0000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-14-0x00007FFB243AD000-0x00007FFB243AE000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-12-0x00007FFAE4390000-0x00007FFAE43A0000-memory.dmp
memory/3388-11-0x00007FFAE4390000-0x00007FFAE43A0000-memory.dmp
memory/4788-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp