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2026-10-11...op.exe

windows10-2004-x64

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2026-10-11...op.exe

windows11-ltsc_2024-x64

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Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    132s
  • 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, 16:46

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General

  • Target
    2026-10-11_89a62a1af3fa21ead9a1e06e59f181dd_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 1.3MB
  • Sample261012-vacevseb64
  • SHA256 aad3aed2baf872f552c7160a611f1bafb0e88caee65f708a28b4a40d1642ae2c
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH
Score
10/10
darkhotelaptdiscoveryexecutionramsayframeworkrootkitspywareupx

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Family: Ramsay

    Ramsay is a cyber-espionage framework and spyware that collects documents from air-gapped networks.

    frameworkspywareramsay
  • Detects Ramsay payload 3 IoCs
    spywareaptdarkhotel
  • Detects the HideDriver kernel rootkit component of Ramsay 2 IoCs
    rootkitaptdarkhotel
  • 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 5 IoCs
  • Loads dropped DLL 8 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.

    upx
  • Drops file in Windows directory 2 IoCs
  • 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.

    execution
  • 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.

    discovery
  • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 3 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 15 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_89a62a1af3fa21ead9a1e06e59f181dd_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_89a62a1af3fa21ead9a1e06e59f181dd_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3288
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\wbiqoalaab.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\wbiqoalaab.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\qqyoahxldj.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_89a62a1af3fa21ead9a1e06e59f181dd_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:4872
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_89a62a1af3fa21ead9a1e06e59f181dd_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-11_89a62a1af3fa21ead9a1e06e59f181dd_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2560
        • \??\f:\3a794d8d0c712cd32d822d\update\update.exe
          f:\3a794d8d0c712cd32d822d\update\update.exe
          4⤵
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Loads dropped DLL
          • Drops file in Windows directory
          • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
          PID:3672
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fqybzqpche.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fqybzqpche.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3396
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4992
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:6052
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\X8y5i7Ao.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:248
      • C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • Loads dropped DLL
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:3416
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:4752
    • 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:4876
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-53044966-3830981193-2402648431-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-53044966-3830981193-2402648431-10002 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:4412
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1408 1584 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:4880
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1544 1532 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:1096
      • 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:2480
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1544 1532 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
          PID:5440
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 1408 1584 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
          2⤵
            PID:468

        Network

              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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              Downloads

              Windows.db
              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
              • Size 1.2MB
              • SHA256 de6f4f894179fc9924948b58def2b677774f9cdee5d5402172d6931c7fe64a8f
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              Windows.db-wal
              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
              • Size 20KB
              • SHA256 e31f9225a29ec8bf68a319b7dc18529af5ad8f682f9bc7a396082f2060a59a16
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              Windows.db-wal
              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
              • Size 1.4MB
              • SHA256 4bda604e8f7374e5f82599b4cc00c0d0785d273376f807bce86f8dbea49c74a4
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              X8y5i7Ao.bat
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\X8y5i7Ao.bat
              • Size 196B
              • SHA256 bcf654be89f1c5fb41979c40293d77351a5bd9eb0dd67f5091e6432966244a51
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              fqybzqpche.exe
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\fqybzqpche.exe
              • Size 580KB
              • SHA256 3ab288c47914e33cc61985e46502158400faa9d7187b55c19039b8795504a290
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              qqyoahxldj.exe
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\qqyoahxldj.exe
              • Size 625KB
              • SHA256 d3b48a5d47dbbd2ee7216946a42e6359b5712f23704d43ba8aeb12cdf3c4db60
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              wbiqoalaab.exe
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\wbiqoalaab.exe
              • Size 51KB
              • SHA256 c25d90168fc2026d8ed2a69c066bd5a7e11004c3899928a7db24cb7636fc4d9e
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              spuninst.exe
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\{e91461b4-a519-4110-9fae-d2895719dbb1}\spuninst.exe
              • Size 73KB
              • SHA256 74aea454d9ff5e2c9a51efb242338fcb60d4090582a5c9ba31bbe660fc0facdd
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              trnmg.sdb
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
              • Size 1KB
              • SHA256 7cef90dc295ea352707b5de4b2691e51b5030897646db64c1ed866055b6f6c1e
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              bindsvc.exe
              • Path C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
              • Size 291KB
              • SHA256 d032bdc64c9451bbb653b346c5bd6ac9f83a91edeb0155497f098c8d6182ddee
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              spuninst.exe
              • Path F:\3a794d8d0c712cd32d822d\spuninst.exe
              • Size 204KB
              • SHA256 a59d2742fb5c9e597b0eef2a77217b33ef13ac4d0f4d1793c67bf7351936e890
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              update.exe
              • Path F:\3a794d8d0c712cd32d822d\update\update.exe
              • Size 701KB
              • SHA256 2e2e9f1ea41d8673bcf69c8c97fc16c22932e2b7807fc87c556516261ea33d99
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              updspapi.dll
              • Path F:\3a794d8d0c712cd32d822d\update\updspapi.dll
              • Size 363KB
              • SHA256 f484cf06e20996e1887b4304b33444f3ee1c03fb912f5ec8d5327c4074a97abb
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              update.inf
              • Path \??\f:\3a794d8d0c712cd32d822d\update\update.inf
              • Size 39KB
              • SHA256 fcb621b6b2b1e726f9b6388ab8d1bbb286eb76dd347fd4edd4c833f28fa098f9
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              memory/3396-60-0x0000000000CE0000-0x0000000000E5A000-memory.dmp
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              memory/3396-51-0x0000000000CE0000-0x0000000000E5A000-memory.dmp
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              memory/3396-16-0x0000000000CE0000-0x0000000000E5A000-memory.dmp
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              memory/3672-48-0x0000000000C10000-0x0000000000C6C000-memory.dmp
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