Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    127s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    03/08/2026, 14:24

General

  • Target
    2026-08-03_84adcae07e0511dab1723e6837969555_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 1.7MB
  • Sample260803-rqv1cssydy
  • SHA256 7142b0c893b34f5a3bdf963d2b23cf55da17dfac09bd53ccb1567d6876d563c7
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

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 17 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).

  • Executes a command shell one-liner 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Execution of a cmd.exe one-liner (/c "close" or /k "keep") is a common script/loader stage.

  • 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\2026-08-03_84adcae07e0511dab1723e6837969555_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-03_84adcae07e0511dab1723e6837969555_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:5408
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\xeloecoali.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\xeloecoali.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dpqqpovdxd.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-03_84adcae07e0511dab1723e6837969555_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:5480
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-03_84adcae07e0511dab1723e6837969555_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-03_84adcae07e0511dab1723e6837969555_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:1780
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\etrghgcbxr.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\etrghgcbxr.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5976
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:752
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:3840
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\uEqGPE0U.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:5692
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:6140
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4108
    • 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:4668
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-3797332335-34111092-3597280141-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-3797332335-34111092-3597280141-10002 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:4744
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3020 3016 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:6012
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3052 3048 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:1548
      • 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:4940
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3052 3048 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
          PID:948
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3020 3016 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
          2⤵
            PID:5012

        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 9f7af26df618a0ca472c411902068c2802384a168a298e3f5221c493a7bc8995
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              Windows.db-wal

              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
              • Size 1.4MB
              • SHA256 9d8285b129c46329aa9c1b1d30e055eb0204bc5f24ea081c9ebf704e40087fce
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              dpqqpovdxd.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dpqqpovdxd.exe
              • Size 946KB
              • SHA256 87fb528d62e70f0f2c0bf9548e1f9f7fb4681de1788d42e82e33b8ee550a1611
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              etrghgcbxr.exe

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

              uEqGPE0U.bat

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\uEqGPE0U.bat
              • Size 196B
              • SHA256 5a68b6d9cf4d43ee5b843c605b2426d774878e1e2323b17edf10310eb1e9669e
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              xeloecoali.exe

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

              trnmg.sdb

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
              • Size 1KB
              • SHA256 c3b28410aa0fb5b5bc07cc4740fac00329e244a829653ef5d5d95ec97e4a12b9
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              bindsvc.exe

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

              memory/1548-62-0x000001D6C1AA0000-0x000001D6C1C6A000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-80-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-76-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-63-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-65-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-69-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-71-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-74-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-53-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-78-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-95-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-82-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-86-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/1780-28-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000006FC000-memory.dmp

              memory/5976-16-0x0000000000FA0000-0x000000000111A000-memory.dmp

              memory/5976-40-0x0000000000FA0000-0x000000000111A000-memory.dmp