Analysis
- max time kernel
150s - max time network
121s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-en - resource tags
- submitted
19/08/2026, 11:40
General
- Target 2026-08-19_4bf913d1c32ef2e23c8be71eedefd055_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 11.7MB
- Sample260819-ntaxtashrd
- SHA256 5f0a58e808813f1dd8eaeb6a248e2cee72618baa3d53533b671ea81292e5d1f6
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.
- Suspicious Office macro 1 IoCs
Office document equipped with macros.
- 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_4bf913d1c32ef2e23c8be71eedefd055_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-19_4bf913d1c32ef2e23c8be71eedefd055_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_4bf913d1c32ef2e23c8be71eedefd055_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-19_4bf913d1c32ef2e23c8be71eedefd055_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\I1787139659\Windows\tiffview.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787139659\Windows\tiffview.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\I1787139659\InstallerData\IAClasses.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787139659\InstallerData\Execute.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787139659\Windows\InstallerData\Execute.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787139659\InstallerData\Resource1.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787139659\Windows\InstallerData\Resource1.zip;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787139659\InstallerData;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\I1787139659\Windows\InstallerData;" com.zerog.lax.LAX "C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/I1787139659/Windows/tiffview.lax" "C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/lax6F4A.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_4bf913d1c32ef2e23c8be71eedefd055_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hawkeye_remcos_smoke-loader.exe
Execute.zip
IAClasses.zip
jvmspecs.properties
iawin32.dll
tiffview.exe
tiffview.lax
sea_loc
WpTWW995.xlsm
WpTWW995.xlsm
lax6F4A.tmp
memory/1976-131-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4184-0-0x00000000011C0000-0x00000000011C1000-memory.dmp
memory/4184-119-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000FAE000-memory.dmp
memory/4184-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/5400-136-0x00007FFAEDAE0000-0x00007FFAEDAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/5400-169-0x00007FFAEAEE0000-0x00007FFAEAEF0000-memory.dmp
memory/5400-135-0x00007FFAEDAE0000-0x00007FFAEDAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/5400-133-0x00007FFAEDAE0000-0x00007FFAEDAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/5400-176-0x00007FFAEAEE0000-0x00007FFAEAEF0000-memory.dmp
memory/5400-134-0x00007FFAEDAE0000-0x00007FFAEDAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/5400-132-0x00007FFAEDAE0000-0x00007FFAEDAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/5460-255-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5460-298-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5460-265-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-233-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-252-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-242-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-260-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-261-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-264-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-235-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-275-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-278-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-285-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-291-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-193-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp
memory/6752-327-0x00000217F97A0000-0x00000217F97A1000-memory.dmp