Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
133s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
16/08/2026, 02:56
General
- Target 2026-08-15_2731c56272aa436c11252bfbdf66041d_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 2.0MB
- Sample260816-dfbbbacj71
- SHA256 c2e34a3f77a6b6306216f748ad9b615617023d38c4e5487c633fceffecfe3d11
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 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 3 IoCs
Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
- Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
- Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs
The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-15_2731c56272aa436c11252bfbdf66041d_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-15_2731c56272aa436c11252bfbdf66041d_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\507C.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\507C.tmp" --splashC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-15_2731c56272aa436c11252bfbdf66041d_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe 413A4E5ADFCD298B45E1D10BFE773E4044BE076A27B8B859722FFF5E9A5B840F9099F4E155A7929C3C0BAD909C964475467100A8AC0BB08F831FB557620913EA2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" /n "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-15_2731c56272aa436c11252bfbdf66041d_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx" /o ""3⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
2026-08-15_2731c56272aa436c11252bfbdf66041d_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx
507C.tmp
memory/2192-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp
memory/3464-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-11-0x00007FFB5F7D0000-0x00007FFB5F7E0000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-15-0x00007FFB5F7D0000-0x00007FFB5F7E0000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-12-0x00007FFB5F7D0000-0x00007FFB5F7E0000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-14-0x00007FFB9F7ED000-0x00007FFB9F7EE000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-13-0x00007FFB5F7D0000-0x00007FFB5F7E0000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-16-0x00007FFB9F750000-0x00007FFB9F945000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-19-0x00007FFB9F750000-0x00007FFB9F945000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-18-0x00007FFB9F750000-0x00007FFB9F945000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-17-0x00007FFB5F7D0000-0x00007FFB5F7E0000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-20-0x00007FFB5D770000-0x00007FFB5D780000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-21-0x00007FFB5D770000-0x00007FFB5D780000-memory.dmp
memory/4960-25-0x00007FFB9F750000-0x00007FFB9F945000-memory.dmp