Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    127s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    09/08/2026, 14:26

General

  • Target
    2026-08-09_4eefbd1c3ceec49e01872baa5e095fb5_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_redline-steale.exe
  • Size 1.2MB
  • Sample260809-rr2vasag98
  • SHA256 d5bffcbe747fb154bedcb27206ad3d496fab09da82e968c649a21d4867813ac7
  • 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 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 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 14 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_4eefbd1c3ceec49e01872baa5e095fb5_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_redline-steale.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_4eefbd1c3ceec49e01872baa5e095fb5_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_redline-steale.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2820
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\oabbsbfsap.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\oabbsbfsap.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\axfyntduic.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_4eefbd1c3ceec49e01872baa5e095fb5_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_redline-steale.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:796
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_4eefbd1c3ceec49e01872baa5e095fb5_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_redline-steale.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-09_4eefbd1c3ceec49e01872baa5e095fb5_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_redline-steale.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:1168
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fwxtufhjxy.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fwxtufhjxy.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3476
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2952
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:2136
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Ru2knI2T.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:1192
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:5540
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3928
    • 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:3764
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-1738198120-2966725515-3980530802-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-1738198120-2966725515-3980530802-10002 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:2592
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2764 2768 824 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:4976
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2772 2792 824 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
          PID:5340
        • 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:5580
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2772 2792 824 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
          2⤵
            PID:3724
          • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2764 2768 824 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
            2⤵
              PID:1620

          Network

                MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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                Downloads

                Windows.db

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
                • Size 1.2MB
                • SHA256 b2454380cdb3118fbaea95a60175d753a12169ee5ec1cdc855d4be073d07d622
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                Windows.db-wal

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
                • Size 1.2MB
                • SHA256 26ef81d22eff4fb021bdf4548574c519fe65ee55b14a101e0e0c48be0576da35
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                Ru2knI2T.bat

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Ru2knI2T.bat
                • Size 196B
                • SHA256 2cb9ee87119781637ee535edfa09a9895f9828243b49f25172e590d531b4a0bf
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                axfyntduic.exe

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\axfyntduic.exe
                • Size 284KB
                • SHA256 446155f3ab94bf33db91e7c2c1eed57ed449d82710bfc96dfa07dba1d346399e
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                fwxtufhjxy.exe

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

                oabbsbfsap.exe

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\oabbsbfsap.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 f06c6e9056a2c4ba923a1df71c35e6de656a32df10b717160059c2debb3ebf99
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                bindsvc.exe

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

                memory/3476-16-0x0000000000EB0000-0x000000000102A000-memory.dmp

                memory/3476-29-0x0000000000EB0000-0x000000000102A000-memory.dmp

                memory/3476-38-0x0000000000EB0000-0x000000000102A000-memory.dmp