Analysis
- max time kernel
149s - max time network
138s - platform
windows10-2004_x64 - resource
win10v2004-20260911-en - resource tags
- submitted
11/11/2026, 17:24
General
- Target 2026-11-10_e1e73e2927b78dc85172b95f5a883aae_darkgate_elex_smoke-loader.exe
- Size 2.1MB
- Sample261111-vytdaaas4j
- SHA256 e67f0356caa1cc84cd298c74231fc368fba1d64858c7410a5c6c0b119b5a8b48
Malware Config
Extracted
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urelas
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112.175.88.208
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112.175.88.207
Signatures
- Family: Urelas
Urelas is a trojan targeting card games.
- Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 1 IoCs
Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.
- Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
- Direct Volume Access: Opens a physical disk for reading 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
Opens a raw handle to a physical disk, which bypasses file system access controls and is used for disk inspection, anti-VM checks and privilege checks.
- Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs
Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).
- Executes a command shell one-liner 1 TTPs 1 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 3 IoCs
Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 2 IoCs
Processes
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-10_e1e73e2927b78dc85172b95f5a883aae_darkgate_elex_smoke-loader.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\2026-11-10_e1e73e2927b78dc85172b95f5a883aae_darkgate_elex_smoke-loader.exe"1⤵
- Checks computer location settings
- Direct Volume Access: Opens a physical disk for reading
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
- Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
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C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dofhir.exe"C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\dofhir.exe"2⤵
- Executes dropped EXE
- Reads the TCP/IP host and domain name from the registry
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exeC:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\sanfdr.bat" "2⤵
- Executes a command shell one-liner
- System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
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Network
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16
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Downloads
dofhir.exe
golfinfo.ini
sanfdr.bat
memory/1060-0-0x0000000000290000-0x00000000004BC000-memory.dmp
memory/1060-1-0x00000000003AB000-0x00000000003AC000-memory.dmp
memory/1060-16-0x0000000000290000-0x00000000004BC000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-15-0x000000000097B000-0x000000000097C000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-14-0x0000000000860000-0x0000000000A8C000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-19-0x0000000000860000-0x0000000000A8C000-memory.dmp
memory/3864-20-0x0000000000860000-0x0000000000A8C000-memory.dmp