Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
147s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
05/08/2026, 08:25
General
- Target 2026-08-05_0d02fc863721a67e0c5be04bccdecd1b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redli.exe
- Size 1.2MB
- Sample260805-kbdn7sshla
- SHA256 b97f55d7ba32cb39915ea5e96e0bbb677054a9e87e83640bf6eda6c9ef06f46c
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.
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 5 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 6 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 3 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-05_0d02fc863721a67e0c5be04bccdecd1b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redli.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-05_0d02fc863721a67e0c5be04bccdecd1b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redli.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-05_0d02fc863721a67e0c5be04bccdecd1b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redli.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-05_0d02fc863721a67e0c5be04bccdecd1b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redli.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in System32 directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Windows\system32\._cache_Synaptics.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: GetForegroundWindowSpam
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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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
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-08-05_0d02fc863721a67e0c5be04bccdecd1b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redli.exe
3A785E00
jj5TPgTo.xlsm
memory/116-259-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/1528-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/1528-128-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/1528-0-0x00000000022D0000-0x00000000022D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3052-130-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/3052-129-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/3052-300-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/3052-302-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/3052-320-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/3052-337-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000531000-memory.dmp
memory/4632-197-0x00007FFF4DB30000-0x00007FFF4DB40000-memory.dmp
memory/4632-194-0x00007FFF4DB30000-0x00007FFF4DB40000-memory.dmp
memory/4632-198-0x00007FFF4DB30000-0x00007FFF4DB40000-memory.dmp
memory/4632-247-0x00007FFF4B4A0000-0x00007FFF4B4B0000-memory.dmp
memory/4632-248-0x00007FFF4B4A0000-0x00007FFF4B4B0000-memory.dmp
memory/4632-193-0x00007FFF4DB30000-0x00007FFF4DB40000-memory.dmp
memory/4632-192-0x00007FFF4DB30000-0x00007FFF4DB40000-memory.dmp