Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
137s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
08/10/2026, 00:46
General
- Target 2026-10-08_d57ecab2eff6372a0239997a5686eb25_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_stop.exe
- Size 828KB
- Sample261008-a4w15sh13p
- SHA256 aef732eff50bfa80422950793ee9cb3b3d945ad6075e320336b1797d620e984b
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.
- 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 2 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 SetWindowsHookEx 4 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 4 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-08_d57ecab2eff6372a0239997a5686eb25_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-08_d57ecab2eff6372a0239997a5686eb25_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_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_2026-10-08_d57ecab2eff6372a0239997a5686eb25_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-10-08_d57ecab2eff6372a0239997a5686eb25_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_stop.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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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
- 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_2026-10-08_d57ecab2eff6372a0239997a5686eb25_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_redline-stealer_rhadamanthys_stop.exe
dj2b1gUK.xlsm
memory/624-149-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D5000-memory.dmp
memory/1844-185-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D5000-memory.dmp
memory/1844-162-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D5000-memory.dmp
memory/1844-77-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D5000-memory.dmp
memory/1844-75-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D5000-memory.dmp
memory/1844-161-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D5000-memory.dmp
memory/4760-148-0x00007FFBE78E0000-0x00007FFBE78F0000-memory.dmp
memory/4760-138-0x00007FFBEA1B0000-0x00007FFBEA1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/4760-137-0x00007FFBEA1B0000-0x00007FFBEA1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/4760-139-0x00007FFBEA1B0000-0x00007FFBEA1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/4760-151-0x00007FFBE78E0000-0x00007FFBE78F0000-memory.dmp
memory/4760-140-0x00007FFBEA1B0000-0x00007FFBEA1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/4760-141-0x00007FFBEA1B0000-0x00007FFBEA1C0000-memory.dmp
memory/4888-0-0x00000000005C0000-0x00000000005C1000-memory.dmp
memory/4888-73-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D5000-memory.dmp
memory/4888-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp