Analysis

  • max time kernel
    150s
  • max time network
    31s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260710-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260710-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    09/08/2026, 14:04

General

  • Target
    2026-08-09_8c70866f1123d3467a528cbedf343b37_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 3.2MB
  • Sample260809-rdkzmasvas
  • SHA256 7eb54c32fbf71edcb23eb1a6dc9536bb745a7bf564097c888a15c492bd519ddd
  • 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
  • Executes dropped EXE 3 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 7 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 4 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 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 13 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8c70866f1123d3467a528cbedf343b37_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8c70866f1123d3467a528cbedf343b37_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2128
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\mvtezewxmv.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\mvtezewxmv.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dmcmutagta.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_8c70866f1123d3467a528cbedf343b37_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      PID:4156
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\gjzpigvyan.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\gjzpigvyan.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4660
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2984
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:1324
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1qpPnwCQ.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:5996
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:4180
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2460
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-2246396966-3025826688-3847171515-10001_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-2246396966-3025826688-3847171515-10001 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:3152
      • 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:4888
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3056 3060 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:4192
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3000 3032 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:468
      • 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:5936
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3056 3060 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
          PID:3928
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 3000 3032 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
          2⤵
            PID:3104

        Network

              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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              Downloads

              Windows.db

              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
              • Size 1.1MB
              • SHA256 796dbfbfe2799a84a7a17895f671bbbf854d325d2f7f172e770784ade3c91c23
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              Windows.db-wal

              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
              • Size 1.4MB
              • SHA256 5eee0178a9ed3b86af8ef66f307bec32770126d12fbeb8597c2b2c9d975c7ec4
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              1qpPnwCQ.bat

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\1qpPnwCQ.bat
              • Size 196B
              • SHA256 17fa2e17ad65800bdb0b9a32d5b96b9d3ab26299feec1a6ea71600e818919208
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              dmcmutagta.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dmcmutagta.exe
              • Size 2.5MB
              • SHA256 791e08d143a83d90a0e07f5fc2a8d3f263a0c4f16649e537f5c09d4498907b82
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              gjzpigvyan.exe

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

              mvtezewxmv.exe

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

              trnmg.sdb

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
              • Size 1KB
              • SHA256 ae0880e2e2c82863f430e89b430595dda31b5ee88c032059c0aa348163c45b8d
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              bindsvc.exe

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

              memory/4660-17-0x0000000000890000-0x0000000000A0A000-memory.dmp

              memory/4660-24-0x0000000000890000-0x0000000000A0A000-memory.dmp

              memory/4660-33-0x0000000000890000-0x0000000000A0A000-memory.dmp