Analysis
- max time kernel
150s - max time network
152s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
13/09/2026, 00:35
General
- Target 2026-09-12_63ea6c69ce5d8da56dc114401cb81836_amadey_coinminer_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe
- Size 6.1MB
- Sample260913-axf2cacg87
- SHA256 dbac2438905ea95f0de3e2812c91bd7a42ad6fda2df53d1072e75042ca24e9d2
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.
- Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Writes to the Master Boot Record (MBR) 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Bootkits write to the MBR to gain persistence at a level below the operating system.
- 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 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: LoadsDriver 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 13 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-12_63ea6c69ce5d8da56dc114401cb81836_amadey_coinminer_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-12_63ea6c69ce5d8da56dc114401cb81836_amadey_coinminer_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_2026-09-12_63ea6c69ce5d8da56dc114401cb81836_amadey_coinminer_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-09-12_63ea6c69ce5d8da56dc114401cb81836_amadey_coinminer_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Writes to the Master Boot Record (MBR)
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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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
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C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exeC:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {9aa46009-3ce0-458a-a354-715610a075e6} -Embedding1⤵
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Persistence
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Pre-OS Boot
1Bootkit
1Privilege Escalation
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Replay Monitor
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-09-12_63ea6c69ce5d8da56dc114401cb81836_amadey_coinminer_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe
9DF85E00
JNMyLhpF.xlsm
memory/424-0-0x00000000027E0000-0x00000000027E1000-memory.dmp
memory/424-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/424-119-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000A23000-memory.dmp
memory/3732-127-0x00007FFDA6880000-0x00007FFDA6890000-memory.dmp
memory/3732-129-0x00007FFDA6880000-0x00007FFDA6890000-memory.dmp
memory/3732-125-0x00007FFDA6880000-0x00007FFDA6890000-memory.dmp
memory/3732-124-0x00007FFDA6880000-0x00007FFDA6890000-memory.dmp
memory/3732-131-0x00007FFDA4310000-0x00007FFDA4320000-memory.dmp
memory/3732-132-0x00007FFDA4310000-0x00007FFDA4320000-memory.dmp
memory/3732-126-0x00007FFDA6880000-0x00007FFDA6890000-memory.dmp
memory/4832-180-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4832-196-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5620-128-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp