Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
144s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
30/09/2026, 15:23
General
- Target 2026-09-29_ed2d2b9dea13739d35a40e6d4adfb9ed_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe
- Size 935KB
- Sample260930-ssmmfavybz
- SHA256 ccc305fb7ec2d0da5989c013c7e0889625e841c4cf87035b82c50bb172c4bf66
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.
- 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
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry 1 TTPs 6 IoCs
The configured hostname and DNS domain identify the machine and are commonly collected to profile a host before it reports in.
- 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 use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 18 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-29_ed2d2b9dea13739d35a40e6d4adfb9ed_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-29_ed2d2b9dea13739d35a40e6d4adfb9ed_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-09-29_ed2d2b9dea13739d35a40e6d4adfb9ed_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-09-29_ed2d2b9dea13739d35a40e6d4adfb9ed_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- 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
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\._cache_Synaptics.exe"C:\Windows\system32\._cache_Synaptics.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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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_2026-09-29_ed2d2b9dea13739d35a40e6d4adfb9ed_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe
WbQdndhE.xlsm
WbQdndhE.xlsm
memory/1144-170-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2340-180-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2340-104-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2340-249-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2340-227-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/2340-200-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-176-0x00007FFADB780000-0x00007FFADB790000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-175-0x00007FFADD870000-0x00007FFADD880000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-174-0x00007FFADD870000-0x00007FFADD880000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-177-0x00007FFADB780000-0x00007FFADB790000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-172-0x00007FFADD870000-0x00007FFADD880000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-173-0x00007FFADD870000-0x00007FFADD880000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-171-0x00007FFADD870000-0x00007FFADD880000-memory.dmp
memory/4840-101-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/4840-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/4840-0-0x00000000006A0000-0x00000000006A1000-memory.dmp