Analysis
- max time kernel
21s - max time network
2s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
16/09/2026, 11:23
General
- Target 2026-09-16_7eab73fa7e13cbeb5ca5eb2eddd156fd_akira_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_glassworm_hijackloader_i.exe
- Size 9.3MB
- Sample260916-ng8nbazbmd
- SHA256 c93423ab9631f7eda48f9651b2790586dc165601e78039f96c45728b1d717522
Malware Config
Signatures
- Detects executables containing URLs to raw contents of a Github gist 2 IoCs
- Detects executables embedding registry key / value combination indicative of disabling Windows Defen 2 IoCs
- Detects executables packed with ASPack 10 IoCs
- ASPack v2.12-2.42 2 IoCs
Detects executables packed with ASPack v2.12-2.42
- Executes dropped EXE 5 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 6 IoCs
- Drops file in Windows directory 3 IoCs
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 5 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-16_7eab73fa7e13cbeb5ca5eb2eddd156fd_akira_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_glassworm_hijackloader_i.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-16_7eab73fa7e13cbeb5ca5eb2eddd156fd_akira_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_glassworm_hijackloader_i.exe"1⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- Drops file in Windows directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\WINDOWS\MSWDM.EXE"C:\WINDOWS\MSWDM.EXE"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\WINDOWS\MSWDM.EXE-r!C:\Windows\devE5E.tmp!C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-16_7eab73fa7e13cbeb5ca5eb2eddd156fd_akira_amadey_cobalt-strike_elex_glassworm_hijackloader_i.exe! !2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-16_7EAB73FA7E13CBEB5CA5EB2EDDD156FD_AKIRA_AMADEY_COBALT-STRIKE_ELEX_GLASSWORM_HIJACKLOADER_I.EXE3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
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C:\WINDOWS\MSWDM.EXE-e!C:\Windows\devE5E.tmp!C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-16_7EAB73FA7E13CBEB5CA5EB2EDDD156FD_AKIRA_AMADEY_COBALT-STRIKE_ELEX_GLASSWORM_HIJACKLOADER_I.EXE!3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in Windows directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\MSWDM.EXEMSWDM.EXE1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
2026-09-16_7EAB73FA7E13CBEB5CA5EB2EDDD156FD_AKIRA_AMADEY_COBALT-STRIKE_ELEX_GLASSWORM_HIJACKLOADER_I.EXE
MSWDM.EXE
devE5E.tmp
memory/3056-24-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp
memory/3056-26-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp
memory/4496-27-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp
memory/4800-7-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp
memory/4800-22-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp
memory/4908-18-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp
memory/6132-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp
memory/6132-10-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000414000-memory.dmp