Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
136s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260709-en - resource tags
- submitted
10/09/2026, 10:22
General
- Target 2026-09-10_cf476878d834627cbf76f4c9335a5e07_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe
- Size 1.0MB
- Sample260910-mecbnage59
- SHA256 caf6632ca7b96d9f782553615d19745fd2cc474a557da6c1b40d95e2f4683e7c
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 SetWindowsHookEx 11 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-10_cf476878d834627cbf76f4c9335a5e07_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-10_cf476878d834627cbf76f4c9335a5e07_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.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_2026-09-10_cf476878d834627cbf76f4c9335a5e07_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-09-10_cf476878d834627cbf76f4c9335a5e07_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_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⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- 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_2026-09-10_cf476878d834627cbf76f4c9335a5e07_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe
D2uUAGv2.xlsm
D2uUAGv2.xlsm
memory/940-121-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/3340-0-0x00000000023E0000-0x00000000023E1000-memory.dmp
memory/3340-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/3340-118-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000508000-memory.dmp
memory/5768-123-0x00007FFB903A0000-0x00007FFB903B0000-memory.dmp
memory/5768-125-0x00007FFB903A0000-0x00007FFB903B0000-memory.dmp
memory/5768-126-0x00007FFB903A0000-0x00007FFB903B0000-memory.dmp
memory/5768-127-0x00007FFB8D9D0000-0x00007FFB8D9E0000-memory.dmp
memory/5768-128-0x00007FFB8D9D0000-0x00007FFB8D9E0000-memory.dmp
memory/5768-124-0x00007FFB903A0000-0x00007FFB903B0000-memory.dmp
memory/5768-122-0x00007FFB903A0000-0x00007FFB903B0000-memory.dmp
memory/5800-163-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5800-172-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5800-189-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp