Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    125s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    14/10/2026, 03:09

General

  • Target
    2026-10-13_e4be2cb0ebe1456891249f1472ac3229_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_glassworm_manuscrypt_rhad.exe
  • Size 916KB
  • Sample261014-dnkvqaey3y
  • SHA256 46743726abed9b6434d7b9810758661b813577cf9aab97f3914827f83958456a
  • 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
  • Custom signature
    Detects Reflective DLL injection artifacts 2 IoCs
  • Custom signature
    Detects Windows exceutables bypassing UAC using CMSTP COM interfaces. MITRE (T1218.003) 2 IoCs
  • Custom signature
    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.

  • 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 5 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\2026-10-13_e4be2cb0ebe1456891249f1472ac3229_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_glassworm_manuscrypt_rhad.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-13_e4be2cb0ebe1456891249f1472ac3229_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_glassworm_manuscrypt_rhad.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3576
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ltmzldiafz.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ltmzldiafz.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\uqjtnvusiv.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-13_e4be2cb0ebe1456891249f1472ac3229_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_glassworm_manuscrypt_rhad.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3356
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-13_e4be2cb0ebe1456891249f1472ac3229_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_glassworm_manuscrypt_rhad.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-13_e4be2cb0ebe1456891249f1472ac3229_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_glassworm_manuscrypt_rhad.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        PID:3516
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\zzkdaoedqd.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\zzkdaoedqd.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:5816
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:2256
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:5540
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\H9PFrtNI.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:5132
      • 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:1928
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2308
    • 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:4912
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-1404337215-1550464601-2805570857-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-1404337215-1550464601-2805570857-10002 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:4536
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2756 2748 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:1608
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2804 2768 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
          PID:120
        • 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:3296
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2756 2748 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
          2⤵
            PID:2512
          • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2804 2768 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
            2⤵
              PID:3416

          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 1ecd42606c6058d35f3135ad0799eb055300235601001f423d0a421b574981bd
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                Windows.db-wal

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
                • Size 24KB
                • SHA256 5be4cffcf4acfff63a70ee538790e028c0fd3557ebe7b9c594d3be6832e0312d
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                Windows.db-wal

                • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
                • Size 1.3MB
                • SHA256 83edc32f7b1587c83e87c30ef2aea45324f0f9c7df5a8eef3eb2caada2290ee1
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                H9PFrtNI.bat

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\H9PFrtNI.bat
                • Size 196B
                • SHA256 15f58b5d63fa2e9c421df8e70243e4668fcccde36586398bd348dade74d7ddf3
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                ltmzldiafz.exe

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

                uqjtnvusiv.exe

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\uqjtnvusiv.exe
                • Size 208KB
                • SHA256 e7e6251d9792d424282b6b9fa20dadb8334d070fe8ba106612e2aa467efc5af8
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

                zzkdaoedqd.exe

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

                trnmg.sdb

                • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
                • Size 858B
                • SHA256 e79aeb268a01e65a0c7b9731795542deea9b0d33218c228235dc6959f2cb3b8f
                • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 TLSH

                bindsvc.exe

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

                memory/5816-17-0x00000000006D0000-0x000000000084A000-memory.dmp

                memory/5816-30-0x00000000006D0000-0x000000000084A000-memory.dmp

                memory/5816-39-0x00000000006D0000-0x000000000084A000-memory.dmp