Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
121s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-en - resource tags
- submitted
19/08/2026, 17:27
General
- Target 2026-08-19_d27646327609b74f5d82a6f240bcbcc4_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hellokitty_poet-rat.exe
- Size 6.6MB
- Sample260819-v1deva1zaw
- SHA256 4f0ca4e91d19e182852284066e7491a7e25bdd9213399ecf5f86524f9179fa65
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 3 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 4 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 use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 10 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-19_d27646327609b74f5d82a6f240bcbcc4_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hellokitty_poet-rat.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-19_d27646327609b74f5d82a6f240bcbcc4_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hellokitty_poet-rat.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_d27646327609b74f5d82a6f240bcbcc4_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hellokitty_poet-rat.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-19_d27646327609b74f5d82a6f240bcbcc4_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hellokitty_poet-rat.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-1.8\bin\javaw.exe"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-1.8\bin\javaw.exe" -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=5 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=15 -jar "._cache_2026-08-19_d27646327609b74f5d82a6f240bcbcc4_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hellokitty_poet-rat.exe"3⤵
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.execmd ver4⤵
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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_d27646327609b74f5d82a6f240bcbcc4_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_hellokitty_poet-rat.exe
.hmcl.json.tmp
8229423256335491795.tmp
RHBmNhMQ.xlsm
RHBmNhMQ.xlsm
hmcl.json
memory/476-0-0x0000000002830000-0x0000000002831000-memory.dmp
memory/476-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/476-121-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000A99000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-320-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-363-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-446-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-145-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-167-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-444-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-210-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-217-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-232-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-238-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-239-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-240-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-242-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-243-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-443-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-267-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-281-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-291-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-317-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-323-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-430-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-328-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-332-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-329-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-338-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-345-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-356-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-429-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-380-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-388-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-384-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-381-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-378-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-377-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-375-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-422-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-373-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-372-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-370-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-411-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2124-136-0x000001E4987B0000-0x000001E4987B1000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-124-0x00007FFA2AAE0000-0x00007FFA2AAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-139-0x00007FFA27E50000-0x00007FFA27E60000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-128-0x00007FFA2AAE0000-0x00007FFA2AAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-126-0x00007FFA2AAE0000-0x00007FFA2AAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-127-0x00007FFA2AAE0000-0x00007FFA2AAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-125-0x00007FFA2AAE0000-0x00007FFA2AAF0000-memory.dmp
memory/2504-137-0x00007FFA27E50000-0x00007FFA27E60000-memory.dmp
memory/2716-138-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4948-426-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4948-445-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4948-456-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4948-468-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp