Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
137s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
01/11/2026, 04:31
General
- Target WinHex20Pro/WinHex_v20.5_x86_x64.exe
- Size 3.0MB
- Sample261101-e5gp3asxbz
- SHA256 02c8fa008710affd57be5c6d79f68ee66ee43e742243679d7af3dbba1d4c95f8
Malware Config
Extracted
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xred
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xred.mooo.com
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payload_url
http://freedns.afraid.org/api/?action=getdyndns&sha=a30fa98efc092684e8d1c5cff797bcc613562978
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSVlVsOGlEVGxuZVk&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1w4p8gc6jzo0sg/SUpdate.ini?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/SUpdate.ini
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSVzUyaHFYVkQxeFk&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zhp1b06imehwylq/Synaptics.rar?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/Synaptics.rar
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BxsMXGfPIZfSTmlVYkxhSDg5TzQ&export=download
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzj752whr3ontsm/SSLLibrary.dll?dl=1
http://xred.site50.net/syn/SSLLibrary.dll
Signatures
- Family: Xred
Xred is backdoor written in Delphi.
- Suspicious Office macro 1 IoCs
Office document equipped with macros.
- Executes dropped EXE 4 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 2 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 1 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
- UPX packed file 4 IoCs
Detects executables packed with UPX/modified UPX open source packer.
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry 1 TTPs 4 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 4 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Checks processor information in registry 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
- Modifies registry class 1 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 12 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 3 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\WinHex20Pro\WinHex_v20.5_x86_x64.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\WinHex20Pro\WinHex_v20.5_x86_x64.exe"1⤵
- Adds Run key to start application
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\WinHex20Pro\._cache_WinHex_v20.5_x86_x64.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\WinHex20Pro\._cache_WinHex_v20.5_x86_x64.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.000\WinHex\winhex64.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\7ZipSfx.000\WinHex\winhex64.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- Enumerates connected drives
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe"C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe" InjUpdate2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" /automation -Embedding1⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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C:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exeC:\ProgramData\Synaptics\Synaptics.exe1⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Privilege Escalation
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
1Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
Chinese.txt
WinHex.cfg
WinHex64.exe
language.dat
timezone.dat
user.txt
hash2.dll
zlib1.dll
._cache_WinHex_v20.5_x86_x64.exe
us2ny1jT.xlsm
us2ny1jT.xlsm
memory/588-125-0x00007FFF6E7A0000-0x00007FFF6E7B0000-memory.dmp
memory/588-127-0x00007FFF6E7A0000-0x00007FFF6E7B0000-memory.dmp
memory/588-193-0x00007FFF6C4B0000-0x00007FFF6C4C0000-memory.dmp
memory/588-190-0x00007FFF6C4B0000-0x00007FFF6C4C0000-memory.dmp
memory/588-123-0x00007FFF6E7A0000-0x00007FFF6E7B0000-memory.dmp
memory/588-124-0x00007FFF6E7A0000-0x00007FFF6E7B0000-memory.dmp
memory/588-126-0x00007FFF6E7A0000-0x00007FFF6E7B0000-memory.dmp
memory/4844-242-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp
memory/4844-65-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp
memory/4844-59-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000429000-memory.dmp
memory/4984-244-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/4984-289-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5788-251-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000007DE000-memory.dmp
memory/5888-194-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5956-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/5956-122-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000707000-memory.dmp
memory/5956-0-0x00000000024D0000-0x00000000024D1000-memory.dmp