Analysis

  • max time kernel
    149s
  • max time network
    150s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20260513-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20260513-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    09/08/2026, 14:04

General

  • Target
    2026-08-09_8d86be7093a1589a6e95919eaca53678_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 745KB
  • Sample260809-rdbe7astgz
  • SHA256 348c0d288e756d8db0d0d2d60e82a18339361d306ab7d9f42ccf88b38d1dfbcd
  • 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
  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 2 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • Executes dropped EXE 4 IoCs
  • 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 use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 28 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 9 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8d86be7093a1589a6e95919eaca53678_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8d86be7093a1589a6e95919eaca53678_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • Checks computer location settings
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4784
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\feqfpmgwkn.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\feqfpmgwkn.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ohchrwfdnh.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8d86be7093a1589a6e95919eaca53678_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
      2⤵
      • Checks computer location settings
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3632
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8d86be7093a1589a6e95919eaca53678_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8d86be7093a1589a6e95919eaca53678_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:4696
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\aegvqgyhmj.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\aegvqgyhmj.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4888
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:1888
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:3496
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\HhM4S2nN.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:4916
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:2088
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4532
    • 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:3476
    • C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 0 800 804 812 8192 808 784
      2⤵
      • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
      PID:4928

Network

        MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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        Downloads

        HhM4S2nN.bat

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\HhM4S2nN.bat
        • Size 196B
        • SHA256 3d18ac85bd401a6d78136f44066d5c09fc7eaa6d06c1226a93ee99efcd9d2427
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        aegvqgyhmj.exe

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

        feqfpmgwkn.exe

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

        ohchrwfdnh.exe

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ohchrwfdnh.exe
        • Size 39KB
        • SHA256 710be8618bbd504f9fc4f563c4c5ac9bd745884d97dc9c50775cf52ad6108e2b
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

        trnmg.sdb

        • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
        • Size 1KB
        • SHA256 616488b3434b3d63e6071f690a3d23171bc5890ad99e37bc1b2add0878becfa7
        • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

        bindsvc.exe

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

        memory/4532-53-0x000001F6F9260000-0x000001F6F9268000-memory.dmp

        memory/4532-67-0x000001F6FA930000-0x000001F6FA938000-memory.dmp

        memory/4532-117-0x000001F6FB570000-0x000001F6FB578000-memory.dmp

        memory/4532-37-0x000001F6F0D90000-0x000001F6F0DA0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4532-21-0x000001F6F0C90000-0x000001F6F0CA0000-memory.dmp

        memory/4888-15-0x0000000000EF0000-0x000000000106A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4888-120-0x0000000000EF0000-0x000000000106A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4888-129-0x0000000000EF0000-0x000000000106A000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-88-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-100-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-73-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-84-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-83-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-82-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-81-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-80-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-79-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-78-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-77-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-76-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-75-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-85-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-86-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-87-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-72-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-90-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-89-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-91-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-94-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-97-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-98-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-74-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-99-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-96-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-95-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-93-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-92-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-101-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-102-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-103-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-105-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-106-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-104-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-107-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-109-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-112-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-113-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-114-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-116-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-115-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-71-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-70-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-69-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-111-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-110-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp

        memory/4928-108-0x00000265AF1F0000-0x00000265AF200000-memory.dmp