Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
139s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
02/11/2026, 04:09
General
- Target 2026-11-01_ed11e12d64150fd764c5bcd922865d3c_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 2.0MB
- Sample261102-eqstsag14n
- SHA256 cf3cf39bd19abbded159cb5f736fc58f6d213698b53b7f680eb1015360b637e8
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 2 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 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 5 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
- Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs
The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy WMI provider
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
- Uses Volume Shadow Copy service COM API
The Volume Shadow Copy service is used to manage backups/snapshots.
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-01_ed11e12d64150fd764c5bcd922865d3c_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-01_ed11e12d64150fd764c5bcd922865d3c_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\E635.tmp"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\E635.tmp" --splashC:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-01_ed11e12d64150fd764c5bcd922865d3c_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.exe 88E9FB85DED97F7BE3B6237B92B0D1B9BE85DB1D8429CACFBAFA707BD19738E69EA3E1D327E48A14D85B898FA4AA5FEFDE7C52374A85776278285830FBA25ADC2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: RenamesItself
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" /n "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-01_ed11e12d64150fd764c5bcd922865d3c_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx" /o ""3⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
2026-11-01_ed11e12d64150fd764c5bcd922865d3c_amadey_elex_smoke-loader.docx
E635.tmp
memory/1136-5-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-18-0x00007FF8078B0000-0x00007FF8078C0000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-20-0x00007FF847830000-0x00007FF847A25000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-13-0x00007FF8478CD000-0x00007FF8478CE000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-14-0x00007FF8078B0000-0x00007FF8078C0000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-15-0x00007FF8078B0000-0x00007FF8078C0000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-17-0x00007FF8078B0000-0x00007FF8078C0000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-16-0x00007FF847830000-0x00007FF847A25000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-42-0x00007FF847830000-0x00007FF847A25000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-21-0x00007FF847830000-0x00007FF847A25000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-12-0x00007FF8078B0000-0x00007FF8078C0000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-19-0x00007FF847830000-0x00007FF847A25000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-23-0x00007FF805070000-0x00007FF805080000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-22-0x00007FF847830000-0x00007FF847A25000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-24-0x00007FF805070000-0x00007FF805080000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-40-0x00007FF847830000-0x00007FF847A25000-memory.dmp
memory/2748-41-0x00007FF8478CD000-0x00007FF8478CE000-memory.dmp
memory/3468-0-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000606000-memory.dmp