Analysis
- max time kernel
148s - max time network
140s - platform
windows11-ltsc_2024_x64 - resource
win11ltsc2024-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
08/11/2026, 08:43
General
- Target 2026-11-07_adc3c0881cd7ffd493cd1527e406d6e7_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_remcos_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 9.6MB
- Sample261108-kms82aws8q
- SHA256 fda7975e8e9314bc8d8501f10298cc62fd3993d5edcb5aed2e60ae8241f20068
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.
- Custom signatureDetects executables manipulated with Fody 4 IoCs
- Suspicious Office macro 1 IoCs
Office document equipped with macros.
- Executes dropped EXE 3 IoCs
- Adds Run key to start application 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
- 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 AdjustPrivilegeToken 1 IoCs
- Suspicious use of SetWindowsHookEx 6 IoCs
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-07_adc3c0881cd7ffd493cd1527e406d6e7_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-07_adc3c0881cd7ffd493cd1527e406d6e7_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_remcos_smoke-loader.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\._cache_2026-11-07_adc3c0881cd7ffd493cd1527e406d6e7_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\._cache_2026-11-07_adc3c0881cd7ffd493cd1527e406d6e7_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_remcos_smoke-loader.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
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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
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Downloads
Synaptics.exe
._cache_2026-11-07_adc3c0881cd7ffd493cd1527e406d6e7_amadey_dark-comet_darkgate_elex_gcleaner_glassworm_remcos_smoke-loader.exe
QGySFWYs.xlsm
QGySFWYs.xlsm
memory/2624-182-0x00000000147F0000-0x0000000014800000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-184-0x0000000014E50000-0x0000000014E6A000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-125-0x0000000005430000-0x00000000054C2000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-189-0x00000000730B0000-0x000000007386C000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-120-0x0000000005910000-0x0000000005ECA000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-128-0x00000000730B0000-0x000000007386C000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-127-0x00000000054D0000-0x00000000055AA000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-126-0x0000000002E40000-0x0000000002E4E000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-187-0x0000000016D60000-0x0000000016DE6000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-186-0x00000000730C2000-0x00000000730C3000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-185-0x0000000016160000-0x0000000016168000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-119-0x0000000000130000-0x0000000000A0C000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-183-0x0000000014A90000-0x0000000014A9C000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-136-0x0000000006C60000-0x0000000006C6A000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-181-0x000000000BB40000-0x000000000BB4A000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-177-0x000000000BB50000-0x000000000BCF6000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-163-0x0000000007870000-0x00000000078AE000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-65-0x00000000730C2000-0x00000000730C3000-memory.dmp
memory/2624-161-0x0000000007800000-0x0000000007868000-memory.dmp
memory/2808-133-0x00007FFD5ED20000-0x00007FFD5ED30000-memory.dmp
memory/2808-137-0x00007FFD5C480000-0x00007FFD5C490000-memory.dmp
memory/2808-134-0x00007FFD5ED20000-0x00007FFD5ED30000-memory.dmp
memory/2808-131-0x00007FFD5ED20000-0x00007FFD5ED30000-memory.dmp
memory/2808-139-0x00007FFD5C480000-0x00007FFD5C490000-memory.dmp
memory/2808-129-0x00007FFD5ED20000-0x00007FFD5ED30000-memory.dmp
memory/2808-130-0x00007FFD5ED20000-0x00007FFD5ED30000-memory.dmp
memory/4956-123-0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000D99000-memory.dmp
memory/4956-0-0x0000000002CA0000-0x0000000002CA1000-memory.dmp
memory/4956-1-0x00000000004A0000-0x00000000004A1000-memory.dmp
memory/4992-138-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5476-196-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5476-188-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp
memory/5476-222-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004C2000-memory.dmp