Analysis
- max time kernel
150s - max time network
138s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-en - resource tags
- submitted
06/08/2026, 17:28
General
- Target 2026-08-06_1920691a71119fa64fc81c070bf907e8_cobalt-strike_cryptbot_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_g.exe
- Size 3.3MB
- Sample260806-v2aekswgpg
- SHA256 3cbf2c0dcf6b81ace22bc7134589ab2c23f196b21fe5bc58f1de2c376f8f0a44
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\2026-08-06_1920691a71119fa64fc81c070bf907e8_cobalt-strike_cryptbot_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_g.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-06_1920691a71119fa64fc81c070bf907e8_cobalt-strike_cryptbot_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_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_2026-08-06_1920691a71119fa64fc81c070bf907e8_cobalt-strike_cryptbot_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_g.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-06_1920691a71119fa64fc81c070bf907e8_cobalt-strike_cryptbot_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_g.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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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_2026-08-06_1920691a71119fa64fc81c070bf907e8_cobalt-strike_cryptbot_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_emotet_g.exe
o39DIYeL.xlsm
memory/2000-166-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/2000-146-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/2000-138-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-129-0x00007FFFBFD70000-0x00007FFFBFD80000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-123-0x00007FFFBFD90000-0x00007FFFBFDA0000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-122-0x00007FF7C2080000-0x00007FF7C2090000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-121-0x00007FF7C2080000-0x00007FF7C2090000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-120-0x00007FF7C2080000-0x00007FF7C2090000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-127-0x00007FF7C0020000-0x00007FF7C0030000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-130-0x00007FF7C0020000-0x00007FF7C0030000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-124-0x00007FF7C2080000-0x00007FF7C2090000-memory.dmp
memory/2440-126-0x00007FF7C2080000-0x00007FF7C2090000-memory.dmp
memory/5164-0-0x0000000002760000-0x0000000002761000-memory.dmp
memory/5164-119-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000750000-memory.dmp
memory/5164-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/5356-131-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp