Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
147s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260513-en - resource tags
- submitted
25/08/2026, 22:52
General
- Target 2026-08-23_a517592a0b155fcdf2d487f66d189d7e_amadey_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
- Size 6.0MB
- Sample260825-2tsdraw1az
- SHA256 380ff86fa1ab976175984d3ce422561d7225c833d2262220e2705fdad5dfce6c
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.
- Detects executables packed with VMProtect. 3 IoCs
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 5 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger 3 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 6 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 3 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 6 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-23_a517592a0b155fcdf2d487f66d189d7e_amadey_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-08-23_a517592a0b155fcdf2d487f66d189d7e_amadey_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Adds Run key to start application
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-23_a517592a0b155fcdf2d487f66d189d7e_amadey_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-08-23_a517592a0b155fcdf2d487f66d189d7e_amadey_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in System32 directory
- Suspicious use of NtSetInformationThreadHideFromDebugger
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Windows\system32\._cache_Synaptics.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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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
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-08-23_a517592a0b155fcdf2d487f66d189d7e_amadey_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
2B585E00
MHIZx5eY.xlsm
memory/2496-247-0x00007FFAA0BD0000-0x00007FFAA0BE0000-memory.dmp
memory/2496-243-0x00007FFAA0BD0000-0x00007FFAA0BE0000-memory.dmp
memory/2496-255-0x00007FFA9E650000-0x00007FFA9E660000-memory.dmp
memory/2496-259-0x00007FFA9E650000-0x00007FFA9E660000-memory.dmp
memory/2496-244-0x00007FFAA0BD0000-0x00007FFAA0BE0000-memory.dmp
memory/2496-246-0x00007FFAA0BD0000-0x00007FFAA0BE0000-memory.dmp
memory/2496-245-0x00007FFAA0BD0000-0x00007FFAA0BE0000-memory.dmp
memory/4116-182-0x0000000000B70000-0x0000000000B71000-memory.dmp
memory/4696-70-0x0000000000810000-0x0000000000811000-memory.dmp
memory/4756-1-0x00000000029D0000-0x00000000029D1000-memory.dmp
memory/4756-0-0x0000000002860000-0x0000000002861000-memory.dmp
memory/5052-131-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000A09000-memory.dmp
memory/5052-129-0x0000000000C60000-0x0000000000C61000-memory.dmp
memory/5052-301-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000A09000-memory.dmp