Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    126s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    12/10/2026, 23:18

General

  • Target
    2026-10-11_42ac5a03307cd006968f2ec04e2a12a8_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 738KB
  • Sample261012-3alyasb13j
  • SHA256 80e4bf2af8a76c63587776cd9accb18e1dc985321913e8e52cbe9592fcb19c19
  • 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 3 IoCs
  • Detects the HideDriver kernel rootkit component of Ramsay 2 IoCs
  • Detects Reflective DLL injection artifacts 2 IoCs
  • Detects Windows exceutables bypassing UAC using CMSTP COM interfaces. MITRE (T1218.003) 2 IoCs
  • UPX dump on OEP (original entry point) 4 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 4 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.

  • Program crash 1 IoCs
  • 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 4 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\2026-10-11_42ac5a03307cd006968f2ec04e2a12a8_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_42ac5a03307cd006968f2ec04e2a12a8_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4052
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\baybnekrgl.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\baybnekrgl.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\flkuwrrwsy.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_42ac5a03307cd006968f2ec04e2a12a8_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:1180
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_42ac5a03307cd006968f2ec04e2a12a8_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_42ac5a03307cd006968f2ec04e2a12a8_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:2668
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 2668 -s 264
          4⤵
          • Program crash
          PID:4480
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fgujllrtto.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fgujllrtto.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4840
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:764
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:4580
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\pp8juFmK.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:5488
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:2824
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:5516
    • 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:108
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-4154726816-2055034831-2297277433-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-4154726816-2055034831-2297277433-10002 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:4932
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3064 3068 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:2316
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3044 3016 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:3608
      • 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:5744
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3064 3068 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
          PID:2708
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 832 3044 3016 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
          2⤵
            PID:2276
        • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
          C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 392 -p 2668 -ip 2668
          1⤵
            PID:1116

          Network

                MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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                Downloads

                Windows.db

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
                • Size 984KB
                • SHA256 a3279b7046275f8589f4679dc5e2a3f6c776750fb9ef5e65ec41ff8fa4759200
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                Windows.db-wal

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
                • Size 1.4MB
                • SHA256 3e8e7bde66088be9ca9cc7f794bd242683d682690ac2d24f1ff24a04092699a9
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                baybnekrgl.exe

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

                fgujllrtto.exe

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

                flkuwrrwsy.exe

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\flkuwrrwsy.exe
                • Size 32KB
                • SHA256 c5df40c138b473a60eebf8e0f56b1c73524051a49b5ac8eee69d2d9eeb2ac4c6
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                pp8juFmK.bat

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\pp8juFmK.bat
                • Size 196B
                • SHA256 54206872e96a7d9cf45dd9745221a24a0e866fd13020114fcd707f7dd6a180b5
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                trnmg.sdb

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
                • Size 1KB
                • SHA256 b0677950b503084e30c44dd73f8953fb749e904d805dcaedfe1dfda0059baa85
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                bindsvc.exe

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

                memory/2668-28-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000409000-memory.dmp

                memory/2668-29-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000409000-memory.dmp

                memory/4840-30-0x00000000000D0000-0x000000000024A000-memory.dmp

                memory/4840-42-0x00000000000D0000-0x000000000024A000-memory.dmp

                memory/4840-16-0x00000000000D0000-0x000000000024A000-memory.dmp