Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    154s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    07/08/2026, 13:12

General

  • Target
    2026-08-07_062072b26f663615a51d4e31c7b6d4c7_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_emotet_manuscrypt_rhadama.exe
  • Size 999KB
  • Sample260807-qfrphsem8v
  • SHA256 dd403f65c4287b007004869293ba0746017e81389e8de11c5d826fa915cde03f
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Detects Reflective DLL injection artifacts 2 IoCs
  • Detects Windows exceutables bypassing UAC using CMSTP COM interfaces. MITRE (T1218.003) 2 IoCs
  • UPX dump on OEP (original entry point) 4 IoCs
  • Drops file in Drivers directory 2 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 8 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 4 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 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 14 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-07_062072b26f663615a51d4e31c7b6d4c7_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_emotet_manuscrypt_rhadama.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-07_062072b26f663615a51d4e31c7b6d4c7_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_emotet_manuscrypt_rhadama.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:6952
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\eitcplafsu.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\eitcplafsu.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vhkmbypzdk.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-07_062072b26f663615a51d4e31c7b6d4c7_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_emotet_manuscrypt_rhadama.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3516
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-07_062072b26f663615a51d4e31c7b6d4c7_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_emotet_manuscrypt_rhadama.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-07_062072b26f663615a51d4e31c7b6d4c7_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_emotet_manuscrypt_rhadama.exe"
        3⤵
        • Drops file in Drivers directory
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Drops file in System32 directory
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
        PID:5000
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ceqodxeyrt.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ceqodxeyrt.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:2044
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:7088
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:6244
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fM7jMGD2.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:5716
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:6460
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3508
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-1014449518-1831897916-4205727055-10001_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-1014449518-1831897916-4205727055-10001 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:6088
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe2_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe2 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:4612
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1388 2524 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:1204
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1488 1472 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:4136
      • 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:5928
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1388 2524 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
          PID:4916
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1488 1472 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
          2⤵
            PID:4696

        Network

              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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              Downloads

              Windows.db

              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
              • Size 1.0MB
              • SHA256 98568404b33d8e6d7e6f9f7691ce07033ec7e3456e999d21078d827cd684dfd6
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              Windows.db-wal

              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
              • Size 539KB
              • SHA256 c304ceb5ae0ea3449bed38477a9a529e6c9808b51db0bbee13a74402e8fb3a8b
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              ceqodxeyrt.exe

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

              eitcplafsu.exe

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

              fM7jMGD2.bat

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fM7jMGD2.bat
              • Size 196B
              • SHA256 1c98f7ef31cc5548f0e3ef895fce7a0fefd2c86cbb344f8647ef243a69389c08
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              vhkmbypzdk.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\vhkmbypzdk.exe
              • Size 292KB
              • SHA256 4f908127f1838882acf9841b31837d1ad538075eb0e3a836de106a15f4affdd4
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              trnmg.sdb

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
              • Size 1KB
              • SHA256 ca6cf13ad5c2fcc4431742c6ea7e52640796e5ed4f0947faf3b9042ed76feaad
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              bindsvc.exe

              • Path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\bindsvc.exe
              • Size 291KB
              • SHA256 d032bdc64c9451bbb653b346c5bd6ac9f83a91edeb0155497f098c8d6182ddee
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              memory/2044-16-0x0000000000650000-0x00000000007CA000-memory.dmp

              memory/2044-29-0x0000000000650000-0x00000000007CA000-memory.dmp

              memory/2044-38-0x0000000000650000-0x00000000007CA000-memory.dmp