Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
150s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-en - resource tags
- submitted
08/08/2026, 03:17
General
- Target 2026-08-08_7e9634e1e0f500229d6b3b61eeae522a_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe
- Size 1.4MB
- Sample260808-ds9dwaygnd
- SHA256 ac5bdbc51af0ff30c2f2b935a43be6aaa60c10ef4b85f3e93a6cfcb750884924
Malware Config
Signatures
- Detects executables packed with VMProtect. 8 IoCs
- Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 22 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
- Creates a Windows Service
- Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger 3 IoCs
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 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 2 IoCs
Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 5 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 3 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 1 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-08_7e9634e1e0f500229d6b3b61eeae522a_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-08_7e9634e1e0f500229d6b3b61eeae522a_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"1⤵
- Drops file in System32 directory
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cl.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\cl.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cl.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\cl.exe Win72⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Enumerates connected drives
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Checks processor information in registry
- Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
cl.exe
memory/124-9-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000056E000-memory.dmp
memory/124-22-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000056E000-memory.dmp
memory/3288-0-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000056E000-memory.dmp
memory/3288-1-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000056E000-memory.dmp
memory/3288-2-0x0000000076430000-0x0000000076431000-memory.dmp
memory/3288-3-0x0000000077F10000-0x0000000077F11000-memory.dmp
memory/3288-4-0x0000000010000000-0x000000001000F000-memory.dmp
memory/3288-16-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000056E000-memory.dmp
memory/5836-17-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000056E000-memory.dmp
memory/5836-23-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000056E000-memory.dmp