Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    23s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    22/09/2026, 19:34

General

  • Target
    2026-09-22_7798de7e5bf55eb16e05b5e2c2be84a0_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 734KB
  • Sample260922-yaastaea23
  • SHA256 ae20df0f9ea5d37a95482e89654fcf5929942f2c7f75fbd62fe3c1bb375a592f
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Family: Ramsay

    Ramsay is a cyber-espionage framework and spyware that collects documents from air-gapped networks.

  • Detects Ramsay payload 2 IoCs
  • Detects the HideDriver kernel rootkit component of Ramsay 1 IoCs
  • Detects Reflective DLL injection artifacts 1 IoCs
  • Detects Windows exceutables bypassing UAC using CMSTP COM interfaces. MITRE (T1218.003) 1 IoCs
  • UPX dump on OEP (original entry point) 3 IoCs
  • Executes dropped EXE 4 IoCs
  • Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 48 IoCs

    Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.

  • Drops file in System32 directory 7 IoCs
  • UPX packed file 3 IoCs

    Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.

  • Launches sc.exe 1 IoCs

    Sc.exe is a Windows utlilty to control services on the system.

  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • 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 5 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: LoadsDriver 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 14 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-22_7798de7e5bf55eb16e05b5e2c2be84a0_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-22_7798de7e5bf55eb16e05b5e2c2be84a0_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:1624
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\rqwqrpvzcn.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\rqwqrpvzcn.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\hkixyqfhtq.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-22_7798de7e5bf55eb16e05b5e2c2be84a0_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4572
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-22_7798de7e5bf55eb16e05b5e2c2be84a0_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-22_7798de7e5bf55eb16e05b5e2c2be84a0_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:4728
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jogiqondra.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jogiqondra.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4588
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:6072
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:3212
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\NBWKoENs.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:1832
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:4196
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4244
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe1_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe1 1 -2147483646 "Software\Microsoft\Windows Search" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT; MS Search 4.0 Robot)" "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Temp\usgthrsvc" "DownLevelDaemon"
      2⤵
      • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
      PID:2456
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-2714045687-1127350534-2056456672-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-2714045687-1127350534-2056456672-10002 1 -2147483646 "Software\Microsoft\Windows Search" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT; MS Search 4.0 Robot)" "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Temp\usgthrsvc" "DownLevelDaemon" "1"
      2⤵
        PID:1872
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2964 2956 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:3668
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2912 2952 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:4248
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe3_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe3 1 -2147483646 "Software\Microsoft\Windows Search" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT; MS Search 4.0 Robot)" "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Temp\usgthrsvc" "DownLevelDaemon"
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:5472
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2912 2952 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
          PID:4860
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2964 2956 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
          2⤵
            PID:1864

        Network

              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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              Downloads

              Windows.db

              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
              • Size 1.1MB
              • SHA256 258a5d17b13fc1b60b040418c5183b6cc312850c091cba24e4a15567f24d4c90
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              Windows.db-wal

              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
              • Size 1.4MB
              • SHA256 4817b684c38a9ab6e7d94dbd30702ba2dc2a01bea48586e671c746bb7a096614
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              NBWKoENs.bat

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\NBWKoENs.bat
              • Size 196B
              • SHA256 4e98a4d1801598b8e059c48ef060a20781c1cf1b3a5991dc3bc4f439f6b0c8cc
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              hkixyqfhtq.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\hkixyqfhtq.exe
              • Size 25KB
              • SHA256 3cd94cbc12a3a0d7ffe674fc89554d30b2b006107834b25586b2e8d84cd5ff29
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              jogiqondra.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\jogiqondra.exe
              • Size 580KB
              • SHA256 3ab288c47914e33cc61985e46502158400faa9d7187b55c19039b8795504a290
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              rqwqrpvzcn.exe

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\rqwqrpvzcn.exe
              • Size 51KB
              • SHA256 c25d90168fc2026d8ed2a69c066bd5a7e11004c3899928a7db24cb7636fc4d9e
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              trnmg.sdb

              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
              • Size 1KB
              • SHA256 75a682e2a052d1000055cff5d6489fc432522cee416cb15a3b30ecb4d730a777
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

              bindsvc.exe

              • Path C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
              • Size 291KB
              • SHA256 d032bdc64c9451bbb653b346c5bd6ac9f83a91edeb0155497f098c8d6182ddee
              • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

              memory/4588-17-0x0000000000020000-0x000000000019A000-memory.dmp

              memory/4588-37-0x0000000000020000-0x000000000019A000-memory.dmp

              memory/4728-28-0x00000000003B0000-0x00000000003B8000-memory.dmp