Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
151s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
14/10/2026, 02:36
General
- Target 2026-10-13_e95a15bc2b57270c94572603b1ab16e6_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 1.5MB
- Sample261014-c3wp4afs2j
- SHA256 9100a9f0781dcde5def5d43ef8f3f3b7cd6e52899a5a9c76d92ce51c69060d58
Malware Config
Extracted
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urelas
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112.175.88.207
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112.175.88.208
Signatures
- Family: Urelas
Urelas is a trojan targeting card games.
- Detects executables built or packed with MPress PE compressor 7 IoCs
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Direct Volume Access: Opens a physical disk for reading 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Opens a raw handle to a physical disk, which bypasses file system access controls and is used for disk inspection, anti-VM checks and privilege checks.
- 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.
- 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.
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-13_e95a15bc2b57270c94572603b1ab16e6_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-13_e95a15bc2b57270c94572603b1ab16e6_elex_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Direct Volume Access: Opens a physical disk for reading
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dofhir.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dofhir.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sanfdr.bat" "2⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
dofhir.exe
golfinfo.ini
sanfdr.bat
memory/116-15-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000005AE000-memory.dmp
memory/116-13-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000005AE000-memory.dmp
memory/116-19-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000005AE000-memory.dmp
memory/116-20-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000005AE000-memory.dmp
memory/1316-0-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000005AE000-memory.dmp
memory/1316-1-0x000000000051A000-0x000000000051B000-memory.dmp
memory/1316-16-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000005AE000-memory.dmp