Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
146s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-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.
- 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).
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry 1 TTPs 4 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 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 AdjustPrivilegeToken 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 11 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-09-29_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⤵
- 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_2026-09-29_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⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- 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_2026-09-29_ed2d2b9dea13739d35a40e6d4adfb9ed_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_smoke-loader_stop.exe
35B95E00
4FiPphpE.xlsm
memory/908-97-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/3108-104-0x00007FF813170000-0x00007FF813180000-memory.dmp
memory/3108-98-0x00007FF815820000-0x00007FF815830000-memory.dmp
memory/3108-99-0x00007FF815820000-0x00007FF815830000-memory.dmp
memory/3108-100-0x00007FF815820000-0x00007FF815830000-memory.dmp
memory/3108-101-0x00007FF815820000-0x00007FF815830000-memory.dmp
memory/3108-102-0x00007FF815820000-0x00007FF815830000-memory.dmp
memory/3108-103-0x00007FF813170000-0x00007FF813180000-memory.dmp
memory/4936-0-0x0000000000720000-0x0000000000721000-memory.dmp
memory/4936-95-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004F0000-memory.dmp
memory/4936-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/5216-140-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5216-144-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5216-150-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5216-165-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp