Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
141s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-en - resource tags
- submitted
19/08/2026, 11:16
General
- Target 2026-08-19_88435bc2477695ebe4c92fbf5401227b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 13.3MB
- Sample260819-ndlpdaee87
- SHA256 09de73c4a13eb11c023a458c9e7d459feaf36935642a6df4a15787a04683d9d1
Malware Config
Extracted
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xred
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xred.mooo.com
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payload_url
http://freedns.afraid.org/api/?action=getdyndns&sha=a30fa98efc092684e8d1c5cff797bcc613562978
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSVlVsOGlEVGxuZVk&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1w4p8gc6jzo0sg/SUpdate.ini?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/SUpdate.ini
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSVzUyaHFYVkQxeFk&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zhp1b06imehwylq/Synaptics.rar?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/Synaptics.rar
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSTmlVYkxhSDg5TzQ&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzj752whr3ontsm/SSLLibrary.dll?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/SSLLibrary.dll
Signatures
- Family: Xred
Xred is backdoor written in Delphi.
- Executes dropped EXE 4 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 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 5 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 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 4 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 42 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 15 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 5 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-19_88435bc2477695ebe4c92fbf5401227b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-19_88435bc2477695ebe4c92fbf5401227b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-19_88435bc2477695ebe4c92fbf5401227b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-19_88435bc2477695ebe4c92fbf5401227b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\Windows\t2w_install.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\Windows\t2w_install.exe3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath\javaw.exe"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath\javaw.exe" -Xms16777216 -Xmx50331648 -classpath "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\InstallerData\IAClasses.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\InstallerData\Execute.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\Windows\InstallerData\Execute.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\InstallerData\Resource1.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\Windows\InstallerData\Resource1.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\InstallerData;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787138224\Windows\InstallerData;" com.zerog.lax.LAX "C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/I1787138224/Windows/t2w_install.lax" "C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/lax57CB.tmp"4⤵
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\System32\Wbem\wmic.exewmic os get name5⤵
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" /automation -Embedding1⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-08-19_88435bc2477695ebe4c92fbf5401227b_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe
CE595E00
GutF2Grh.xlsm
Execute.zip
IAClasses.zip
jvmspecs.properties
iawin32.dll
t2w_install.exe
t2w_install.lax
sea_loc
lax57CB.tmp
memory/3248-156-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/3268-155-0x00007FFCB7F20000-0x00007FFCB7F30000-memory.dmp
memory/3268-152-0x00007FFCB7F20000-0x00007FFCB7F30000-memory.dmp
memory/3268-159-0x00007FFCB55D0000-0x00007FFCB55E0000-memory.dmp
memory/3268-170-0x00007FFCB55D0000-0x00007FFCB55E0000-memory.dmp
memory/3268-154-0x00007FFCB7F20000-0x00007FFCB7F30000-memory.dmp
memory/3268-151-0x00007FFCB7F20000-0x00007FFCB7F30000-memory.dmp
memory/3268-153-0x00007FFCB7F20000-0x00007FFCB7F30000-memory.dmp
memory/3944-258-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/3944-252-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/3944-294-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/3944-274-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-262-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-255-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-242-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-245-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-248-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-251-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-311-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-232-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-293-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-210-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-234-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5364-289-0x00000211671E0000-0x00000211671E1000-memory.dmp
memory/5660-0-0x0000000002F20000-0x0000000002F21000-memory.dmp
memory/5660-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/5660-118-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000115B000-memory.dmp