Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
154s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
22/08/2026, 23:15
General
- Target 2026-08-22_d956c8361ab251254dc23ca9e67fa82b_amadey_elex_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
- Size 4.0MB
- Sample260822-28tkcsgg35
- SHA256 23ca1175f590ff5daf6071de8af6ca33e4df345a75bd9dcf9230d0c8a290af5f
Malware Config
Signatures
- Family: Glupteba
Glupteba is a modular loader written in Golang with various components.
- Glupteba payload 22 IoCs
- Detects Windows executables referencing non-Windows User-Agents 20 IoCs
- Detects executables Discord URL observed in first stage droppers 20 IoCs
- Detects executables containing URLs to raw contents of a Github gist 20 IoCs
- Detects executables referencing many varying, potentially fake Windows User-Agents 20 IoCs
- Modifies Windows Firewall 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Executes dropped EXE 6 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 2 IoCs
- Checks installed software on the system 1 TTPs
Looks up Uninstall key entries in the registry to enumerate software on the system.
- Manipulates WinMonFS driver. 1 IoCs
Roottkits write to WinMonFS to hide directories/files from being detected.
- Checks for VirtualBox DLLs, possible anti-VM trick 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Certain files are specific to VirtualBox VMs and can be used to detect execution in a VM.
- Drops file in Windows directory 2 IoCs
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL 1 TTPs 3 IoCs
Netsh.exe (also referred to as Netshell) is a command-line scripting utility used to interact with the network configuration of a system.
- 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 7 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 7 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 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.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-22_d956c8361ab251254dc23ca9e67fa82b_amadey_elex_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-22_d956c8361ab251254dc23ca9e67fa82b_amadey_elex_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-22_d956c8361ab251254dc23ca9e67fa82b_amadey_elex_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-22_d956c8361ab251254dc23ca9e67fa82b_amadey_elex_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"2⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- Checks for VirtualBox DLLs, possible anti-VM trick
- Drops file in Windows directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exeC:\Windows\Sysnative\cmd.exe /C "netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="csrss" dir=in action=allow program="C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" enable=yes"3⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\system32\netsh.exenetsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="csrss" dir=in action=allow program="C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" enable=yes4⤵
- Modifies Windows Firewall
- Event Triggered Execution: Netsh Helper DLL
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exeC:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Adds Run key to start application
- Manipulates WinMonFS driver.
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\schtasks.exeschtasks /CREATE /SC ONLOGON /RL HIGHEST /TR "C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" /TN csrss /F4⤵
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\schtasks.exeschtasks /delete /tn ScheduledUpdate /f4⤵
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\csrss\injector\injector.exeC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\csrss\injector\injector.exe taskmgr.exe C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\csrss\injector\NtQuerySystemInformationHook.dll4⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
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C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\schtasks.exeschtasks /CREATE /SC ONLOGON /RL HIGHEST /TR "C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe" /TN csrss /F4⤵
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exeC:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"C:\Windows\rss\csrss.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Execution
Command and Scripting Interpreter
1Windows Command Shell
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Persistence
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Create or Modify System Process
1Windows Service
1Event Triggered Execution
1Netsh Helper DLL
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Privilege Escalation
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Create or Modify System Process
1Windows Service
1Event Triggered Execution
1Netsh Helper DLL
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
1Defense Evasion
Impair Defenses
1Disable or Modify System Firewall
1Modify Registry
1Replay Monitor
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Downloads
injector.exe
csrss.exe
memory/1536-11-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/1536-6-0x00000000029B0000-0x0000000002DA1000-memory.dmp
memory/1580-24-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-30-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-39-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-43-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-42-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-41-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-40-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-38-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-37-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-31-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-32-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-33-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-34-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-35-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3376-36-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3420-29-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3512-16-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3540-1-0x0000000002A40000-0x0000000002E38000-memory.dmp
memory/3540-3-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp
memory/3540-2-0x0000000002E40000-0x00000000036B6000-memory.dmp
memory/3540-4-0x0000000002E40000-0x00000000036B6000-memory.dmp
memory/4224-27-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000C91000-memory.dmp