Analysis
- user interaction
yes - max time kernel
149s - max time network
143s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
09/10/2026, 18:44
General
- Target Potato Graphics Pack (Updated)/Nvidia/nvidiaProfileInspector.exe
- Size 1.7MB
- Sample261009-xdjpfsdf97
- SHA256 bd69d43b587411c874fa28d57abb14c389f19769896a2abe94cb323f0771baf2
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.
- 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 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 3 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Checks SCSI registry key(s) 3 TTPs 3 IoCs
SCSI information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 5 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 behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 55 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 5 IoCs
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 46 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage 46 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 9 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Potato Graphics Pack (Updated)\Nvidia\nvidiaProfileInspector.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Potato Graphics Pack (Updated)\Nvidia\nvidiaProfileInspector.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\Potato Graphics Pack (Updated)\Nvidia\._cache_nvidiaProfileInspector.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Potato Graphics Pack (Updated)\Nvidia\._cache_nvidiaProfileInspector.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
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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:\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
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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:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.exe"C:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.exe" /41⤵
- Checks SCSI registry key(s)
- Checks processor information in registry
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of SendNotifyMessage
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exeC:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k GPSvcGroup1⤵
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Privilege Escalation
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Replay Monitor
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_nvidiaProfileInspector.exe
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memory/256-141-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/616-125-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000005C1000-memory.dmp
memory/616-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/616-0-0x0000000002380000-0x0000000002381000-memory.dmp
memory/984-188-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/984-180-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/984-238-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/984-234-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/3000-132-0x00007FFF10940000-0x00007FFF10950000-memory.dmp
memory/3000-140-0x00007FFF0E590000-0x00007FFF0E5A0000-memory.dmp
memory/3000-138-0x00007FFF0E590000-0x00007FFF0E5A0000-memory.dmp
memory/3000-135-0x00007FFF10940000-0x00007FFF10950000-memory.dmp
memory/3000-131-0x00007FFF10940000-0x00007FFF10950000-memory.dmp
memory/3000-133-0x00007FFF10940000-0x00007FFF10950000-memory.dmp
memory/3000-137-0x00007FFF10940000-0x00007FFF10950000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-214-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-208-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-210-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-217-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-219-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-215-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-218-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/3780-216-0x000002756C4D0000-0x000002756C4D1000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-128-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-143-0x0000013DE0DE0000-0x0000013DE0E1E000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-144-0x0000013DE0DB0000-0x0000013DE0DBE000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-187-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-142-0x0000013DE0F60000-0x0000013DE0F68000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-194-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-136-0x0000013DC4AF0000-0x0000013DC4B0C000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-134-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-130-0x0000013DDDEB0000-0x0000013DDDF6A000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-127-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-129-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-126-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-122-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-115-0x00007FFF2D9E0000-0x00007FFF2E384000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-66-0x0000013DC2BD0000-0x0000013DC2CD6000-memory.dmp
memory/4460-65-0x00007FFF2DB6F000-0x00007FFF2DB70000-memory.dmp