Analysis
- max time kernel
150s - max time network
125s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
29/10/2026, 20:44
General
- Target 2026-10-28_b2398bebc697fc27976b5b2dceff8e9b_darkgate_elex_maze.exe
- Size 996KB
- Sample261029-zh4xasts7l
- SHA256 f9133f683f6ddeded1ce6ecb09dfd5581e4feca021c506d294d97c44cf3f74ac
Score
6/10
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks whether UAC is enabled 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Program crash 1 IoCs
- 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 1 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Modifies Internet Explorer settings 1 TTPs 4 IoCs
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-28_b2398bebc697fc27976b5b2dceff8e9b_darkgate_elex_maze.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-10-28_b2398bebc697fc27976b5b2dceff8e9b_darkgate_elex_maze.exe"1⤵
- Checks whether UAC is enabled
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies Internet Explorer settings
- Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -u -p 5280 -s 24002⤵
- Program crash
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exeC:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe -pss -s 420 -p 5280 -ip 52801⤵