Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
135s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
23/10/2026, 21:51
General
- Target 2026-10-22_c111216ff21658a66cd7b2aea7ff7b0f_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe
- Size 368KB
- Sample261023-1q1ehsd15z
- SHA256 82af6e1355c9215ddaec4fdb3a231b676717a3b7f149e0579aa56185384565ad
Malware Config
Signatures
- Detects executables packed with aPLib. 3 IoCs
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Checks for any installed AV software in registry 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext 1 IoCs
- 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 2 IoCs
- 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.
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 17 IoCs
- Views/modifies file attributes 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-22_c111216ff21658a66cd7b2aea7ff7b0f_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-22_c111216ff21658a66cd7b2aea7ff7b0f_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Suspicious use of SetThreadContext
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\backgroundTaskHost.exe"backgroundTaskHost.exe"2⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- Checks for any installed AV software in registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\xqfFC7A.tmp.bat" "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-22_c111216ff21658a66cd7b2aea7ff7b0f_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe""2⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\attrib.exeattrib -r -s -h "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-22_c111216ff21658a66cd7b2aea7ff7b0f_amadey_elex_rhadamanthys_smoke-loader_stop.exe"3⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Views/modifies file attributes
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 5352 -s 13162⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 5352 -s 18882⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 428 -p 5352 -ip 53521⤵
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 532 -p 5352 -ip 53521⤵
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Privilege Escalation
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
1Defense Evasion
Hide Artifacts
1Hidden Files and Directories
1Modify Registry
1Replay Monitor
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Downloads
2h0bb0bj66.exe
3492473cd35c8bdceed8
xqfFC7A.tmp.bat
memory/1224-293-0x0000000000F50000-0x0000000001050000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-307-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-9-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-745-0x0000000000F50000-0x0000000001050000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-298-0x0000000000F50000-0x0000000001050000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-296-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-6-0x00000000009F0000-0x00000000009F1000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-291-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-301-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-744-0x0000000000F50000-0x0000000001050000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-305-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-435-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/1224-322-0x0000000000E80000-0x0000000000EEA000-memory.dmp
memory/4844-716-0x0000000001440000-0x00000000014AA000-memory.dmp
memory/4844-720-0x0000000001440000-0x00000000014AA000-memory.dmp
memory/4844-722-0x0000000001440000-0x00000000014AA000-memory.dmp
memory/5352-8-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000466000-memory.dmp
memory/5352-436-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000466000-memory.dmp
memory/5352-1-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000466000-memory.dmp
memory/5352-3-0x0000000000540000-0x0000000000550000-memory.dmp
memory/5352-0-0x0000000000540000-0x0000000000541000-memory.dmp