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2026-10-16...op.exe

windows10-2004-x64

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2026-10-16...op.exe

windows11-ltsc_2024-x64

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Analysis

  • max time kernel
    148s
  • max time network
    143s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260911-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260911-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    17/10/2026, 07:25

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General

  • Target
    2026-10-16_c4289b62aed71712f8fb1af8cd8a4e35_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
  • Size 779KB
  • Sample261017-h86edayyht
  • SHA256 8e0a7e8d67d6cca4a1a51d3db654a10a8e9bd7d5d7051d0ce563f0fb818daab7
  • 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 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.

    upx
  • 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
  • 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.

    discovery
  • 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.

    discovery
  • 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\2026-10-16_c4289b62aed71712f8fb1af8cd8a4e35_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-16_c4289b62aed71712f8fb1af8cd8a4e35_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:2084
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\lzobezkifq.exe
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\lzobezkifq.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nxscufyfft.exe" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-16_c4289b62aed71712f8fb1af8cd8a4e35_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:4976
      • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-16_c4289b62aed71712f8fb1af8cd8a4e35_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe
        "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-16_c4289b62aed71712f8fb1af8cd8a4e35_amadey_coinminer_darkgate_elex_manuscrypt_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stealc_stop.exe"
        3⤵
        • Executes dropped EXE
        PID:1052
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\mrxucppfrj.exe
      C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\mrxucppfrj.exe
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • Drops file in System32 directory
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:1508
      • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
        /c sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
        3⤵
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4968
        • C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe
          sc config msdtc obj= LocalSystem
          4⤵
          • Launches sc.exe
          PID:4640
      • C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ElPmsqiM.bat"
        3⤵
        • Executes a command shell one-liner
        PID:3768
      • 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:352
  • C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
    1⤵
    • Enumerates connected drives
    • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:5848
    • 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:2852
    • C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\SearchProtocolHost.exe" Global\UsGthrFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-4280978039-528710165-233981602-10002_ Global\UsGthrCtrlFltPipeMssGthrPipe_S-1-5-21-4280978039-528710165-233981602-10002 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:2864
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2780 1672 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:4740
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2824 2800 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
        2⤵
        • Modifies data under HKEY_USERS
        PID:3680
      • 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:4528
      • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2780 1672 820 {7FC3863B-7471-4B10-84E3-A5C2E0330618}
        2⤵
          PID:2460
        • C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe
          "C:\Windows\System32\SearchFilterHost.exe" 836 2824 2800 820 {06DC0F6A-A3E7-4365-A8E8-F674FE2E6361}
          2⤵
            PID:2012

        Network

              MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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              Downloads

              Windows.db
              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db
              • Size 1.1MB
              • SHA256 11af19da7b3e74c0dd52e3b38fab301bf633333922db3b176c59ebb4d88ce4a4
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              Windows.db-wal
              • Path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.db-wal
              • Size 1.4MB
              • SHA256 389fd47251aa12656661ef3af7bd5e027c5baf768c9b4ea80c14ff61b867958c
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              ElPmsqiM.bat
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\ElPmsqiM.bat
              • Size 196B
              • SHA256 6d2eef615f3b39913a53520e898d1cf41cf410f6d7818caf46686846034855b4
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              Submit Download

              lzobezkifq.exe
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\lzobezkifq.exe
              • Size 51KB
              • SHA256 c25d90168fc2026d8ed2a69c066bd5a7e11004c3899928a7db24cb7636fc4d9e
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              mrxucppfrj.exe
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\mrxucppfrj.exe
              • Size 580KB
              • SHA256 3ab288c47914e33cc61985e46502158400faa9d7187b55c19039b8795504a290
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              nxscufyfft.exe
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\nxscufyfft.exe
              • Size 73KB
              • SHA256 c557e9fc0ff6bbb99ea1b2364d89fd048293d77e540171a29d2a7bcf03c20c44
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              trnmg.sdb
              • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UserSetting\trnmg.sdb
              • Size 1KB
              • SHA256 659237d2cad6b559c0a4ad8029aba91f76db17705bb712c40ce4adeb1b4c100a
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              bindsvc.exe
              • Path C:\Windows\System32\bindsvc.exe
              • Size 291KB
              • SHA256 d032bdc64c9451bbb653b346c5bd6ac9f83a91edeb0155497f098c8d6182ddee
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              memory/1508-17-0x0000000000280000-0x00000000003FA000-memory.dmp
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              memory/1508-29-0x0000000000280000-0x00000000003FA000-memory.dmp
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              memory/1508-38-0x0000000000280000-0x00000000003FA000-memory.dmp
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