Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
137s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
04/11/2026, 19:57
General
- Target 2026-11-03_58c18121be3434469f85cedc297b6481_amadey_cobalt-strike_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_hellokitty_luca-stealer_njrat.exe
- Size 771KB
- Sample261104-yn8a8sft8r
- SHA256 2bacba77e3aa1df8d98bd26f2e92a5c47fae443701445eb7400221f06415faea
Malware Config
Signatures
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 3 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 5 IoCs
- Loads dropped DLL 2 IoCs
- Enumerates connected drives 3 TTPs 23 IoCs
Attempts to read the root path of hard drives other than the default C: drive.
- Drops file in System32 directory 2 IoCs
- Drops file in Program Files directory 5 IoCs
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Executes a command shell one-liner 1 TTPs 2 IoCs
Execution of a cmd.exe one-liner (/c "close" or /k "keep") is a common script/loader stage.
- 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 10 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 6 IoCs
Processor information is often read in order to detect sandboxing environments.
- Enumerates system info in registry 2 TTPs 6 IoCs
- Modifies registry class 3 IoCs
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener 2 IoCs
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 8 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 27 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 8 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-03_58c18121be3434469f85cedc297b6481_amadey_cobalt-strike_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_hellokitty_luca-stealer_njrat.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-03_58c18121be3434469f85cedc297b6481_amadey_cobalt-strike_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_hellokitty_luca-stealer_njrat.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-11-03_58c18121be3434469f85cedc297b6481_amadey_cobalt-strike_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_hellokitty_luca-stealer_njrat.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-11-03_58c18121be3434469f85cedc297b6481_amadey_cobalt-strike_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_hellokitty_luca-stealer_njrat.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"2⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Loads dropped DLL
- Enumerates connected drives
- Drops file in Program Files directory
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_chromehelper.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_chromehelper.exe"3⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.execmd.exe /C schtasks /QUERY /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"3⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exeschtasks /QUERY /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"4⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.execmd.exe /C schtasks /CREATE /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4M9.xml" /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"3⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\schtasks.exeschtasks /CREATE /XML "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\4M9.xml" /TN "Google Chrome Helper Update"4⤵
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
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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:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google Chrome Helper\chromehelper.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Executes dropped EXE
- Drops file in System32 directory
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Modifies registry class
- Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\._cache_chromehelper.exe"C:\Windows\system32\._cache_chromehelper.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE" /Automation -Embedding1⤵
- Checks processor information in registry
- Enumerates system info in registry
- Suspicious behavior: AddClipboardFormatListener
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx
Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
Execution
Command and Scripting Interpreter
1Windows Command Shell
1Scheduled Task/Job
1Scheduled Task
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Downloads
chromehelper.exe
update.dll
B76BE66D46C355931939D8CF818D03FD_68DC46933CF3DE41CC968E0784D43DC3
E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
B76BE66D46C355931939D8CF818D03FD_68DC46933CF3DE41CC968E0784D43DC3
E2C6CBAF0AF08CF203BA74BF0D0AB6D5_EAF5D55D93603A879FA973006301F24F
F31F3DC8-8865-4CBB-A446-32BB3192F2CD
mip_sdk.miplog
089d66ba04a8cec4bdc5267f42f39cf84278bb67.tbres
49dbe2955480c7f6ef8cec9c4320c9868d9293fd.tbres
._cache_2026-11-03_58c18121be3434469f85cedc297b6481_amadey_cobalt-strike_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_hellokitty_luca-stealer_njrat.exe
0DF95E00
241A5E00
391A5E00
4M9.xml
X3qo3.xlsm
jt94H.docm
~$w8v2Y.xlsm
~WRD0000.tmp
~WRD0002.tmp
APASixthEditionOfficeOnline.xsl
CHICAGO.XSL
GB.XSL
GostName.XSL
GostTitle.XSL
HarvardAnglia2008OfficeOnline.xsl
IEEE2006OfficeOnline.xsl
ISO690Nmerical.XSL
MLASeventhEditionOfficeOnline.xsl
TURABIAN.XSL
index.dat
memory/1896-605-0x00000000028B0000-0x00000000028BB000-memory.dmp
memory/1896-613-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/1896-614-0x00000000028B0000-0x00000000028BB000-memory.dmp
memory/1896-615-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/1896-458-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/1896-604-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/1896-58-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/1896-92-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/3904-138-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/4780-593-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/4780-592-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/4780-590-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/4780-591-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-36-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-35-0x0000000000680000-0x0000000000681000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-1-0x000000000048E000-0x000000000048F000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-57-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004D0000-memory.dmp
memory/4852-0-0x0000000000680000-0x0000000000681000-memory.dmp
memory/5056-102-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/5056-98-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/5056-100-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/5056-101-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/5056-99-0x00007FF90C770000-0x00007FF90C780000-memory.dmp
memory/5056-103-0x00007FF90A3B0000-0x00007FF90A3C0000-memory.dmp
memory/5056-107-0x00007FF90A3B0000-0x00007FF90A3C0000-memory.dmp