| File name: | NPE.exe |
| Full analysis: | https://app.any.run/tasks/258563c8-c8f2-4337-9f4a-0822be431469 |
| Verdict: | Malicious activity |
| Analysis date: | January 17, 2020, 15:10:21 |
| OS: | Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (build: 7601, 32 bit) |
| Indicators: | |
| MIME: | application/x-dosexec |
| File info: | PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows |
| MD5: | C724261C6353261F152319E35E78AC3F |
| SHA1: | E118C0A352A0E9ED54F96826BA8C3170D3594338 |
| SHA256: | 76A1317F951D891C4E2F10E5F81D38C3FF586600AB07918D9A4FEEB0C81F038C |
| SSDEEP: | 196608:02iFtn0JRybnb8GBwBTtZfRzfwrqNSyVIGw:02Ex5bnbDIfRzfwrqNrV/ |
MALICIOUS
No malicious indicators.SUSPICIOUS
Creates files in the program directory
- NPE.exe (PID: 896)
Executable content was dropped or overwritten
- NPE.exe (PID: 896)
Creates files in the Windows directory
- NPE.exe (PID: 896)
Creates files in the driver directory
- NPE.exe (PID: 896)
Removes files from Windows directory
- NPE.exe (PID: 896)
INFO
Reads the hosts file
- NPE.exe (PID: 896)
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TRiD
| .exe | | | Win64 Executable (generic) (76.4) |
|---|---|---|
| .exe | | | Win32 Executable (generic) (12.4) |
| .exe | | | Generic Win/DOS Executable (5.5) |
| .exe | | | DOS Executable Generic (5.5) |
EXIF
EXE
| MachineType: | Intel 386 or later, and compatibles |
|---|---|
| TimeStamp: | 2019:12:09 23:00:11+01:00 |
| PEType: | PE32 |
| LinkerVersion: | 14 |
| CodeSize: | 6224384 |
| InitializedDataSize: | 3363840 |
| UninitializedDataSize: | - |
| EntryPoint: | 0x423dad |
| OSVersion: | 5.1 |
| ImageVersion: | - |
| SubsystemVersion: | 5.1 |
| Subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| FileVersionNumber: | 5.3.0.67 |
| ProductVersionNumber: | 5.3.0.0 |
| FileFlagsMask: | 0x003f |
| FileFlags: | (none) |
| FileOS: | Windows NT 32-bit |
| ObjectFileType: | Executable application |
| FileSubtype: | - |
| LanguageCode: | English (U.S.) |
| CharacterSet: | Unicode |
| CompanyName: | Symantec Corporation |
| FileDescription: | Norton Power Eraser |
| FileVersion: | 5.3.0.67 |
| InternalName: | NPE |
| LegalCopyright: | Copyright (c) 1997-2019 Symantec Corporation |
| OriginalFileName: | NPE.exe |
| ProductName: | Norton Power Eraser |
| ProductVersion: | 5.3 |
Summary
| Architecture: | IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386 |
|---|---|
| Subsystem: | IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_WINDOWS_GUI |
| Compilation Date: | 09-Dec-2019 22:00:11 |
| Detected languages: |
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| Debug artifacts: |
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| CompanyName: | Symantec Corporation |
| FileDescription: | Norton Power Eraser |
| FileVersion: | 5.3.0.67 |
| InternalName: | NPE |
| LegalCopyright: | Copyright (c) 1997-2019 Symantec Corporation |
| OriginalFilename: | NPE.exe |
| ProductName: | Norton Power Eraser |
| ProductVersion: | 5.3 |
DOS Header
| Magic number: | MZ |
|---|---|
| Bytes on last page of file: | 0x0090 |
| Pages in file: | 0x0003 |
| Relocations: | 0x0000 |
| Size of header: | 0x0004 |
| Min extra paragraphs: | 0x0000 |
| Max extra paragraphs: | 0xFFFF |
| Initial SS value: | 0x0000 |
| Initial SP value: | 0x00B8 |
| Checksum: | 0x0000 |
| Initial IP value: | 0x0000 |
| Initial CS value: | 0x0000 |
| Overlay number: | 0x0000 |
| OEM identifier: | 0x0000 |
| OEM information: | 0x0000 |
| Address of NE header: | 0x00000138 |
PE Headers
| Signature: | PE |
|---|---|
| Machine: | IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386 |
| Number of sections: | 8 |
| Time date stamp: | 09-Dec-2019 22:00:11 |
| Pointer to Symbol Table: | 0x00000000 |
| Number of symbols: | 0 |
| Size of Optional Header: | 0x00E0 |
| Characteristics: |
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Sections
Name | Virtual Address | Virtual Size | Raw Size | Charateristics | Entropy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
.text | 0x00001000 | 0x005E0906 | 0x005E0A00 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | 6.75295 |
IPPCODE | 0x005E2000 | 0x0000EF2B | 0x0000F000 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | 6.28453 |
.rdata | 0x005F1000 | 0x001447A6 | 0x00144800 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | 5.18119 |
.data | 0x00736000 | 0x0003B920 | 0x00030200 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE | 6.25372 |
.gfids | 0x00772000 | 0x00001210 | 0x00001400 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | 3.84614 |
.tls | 0x00774000 | 0x00000009 | 0x00000200 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE | 0.0203931 |
.rsrc | 0x00775000 | 0x0015BCA4 | 0x0015BE00 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | 7.1691 |
.reloc | 0x008D1000 | 0x00063590 | 0x00063600 | IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | 6.6566 |
Resources
Title | Entropy | Size | Codepage | Language | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5.16991 | 2018 | Latin 1 / Western European | English - United States | RT_MANIFEST |
2 | 4.83854 | 19496 | Latin 1 / Western European | UNKNOWN | RT_ICON |
3 | 4.53695 | 16936 | Latin 1 / Western European | UNKNOWN | RT_ICON |
4 | 4.68794 | 9640 | Latin 1 / Western European | UNKNOWN | RT_ICON |
5 | 4.79893 | 4264 | Latin 1 / Western European | UNKNOWN | RT_ICON |
6 | 4.90673 | 2440 | Latin 1 / Western European | UNKNOWN | RT_ICON |
7 | 5.01681 | 2064 | Latin 1 / Western European | UNKNOWN | RT_ICON |
8 | 1.08495 | 46 | Latin 1 / Western European | English - United States | RT_STRING |
9 | 3.37006 | 762 | Latin 1 / Western European | English - United States | RT_STRING |
10 | 3.2052 | 1216 | Latin 1 / Western European | English - United States | RT_STRING |
Imports
ADVAPI32.dll |
COMDLG32.dll |
GDI32.dll |
IMM32.dll |
KERNEL32.dll |
OLEAUT32.dll |
PSAPI.DLL |
RPCRT4.dll |
SETUPAPI.dll |
SHELL32.dll |
Total processes
38
Monitored processes
2
Malicious processes
1
Suspicious processes
0
Behavior graph
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Process information
PID | CMD | Path | Indicators | Parent process | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 896 | "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\NPE.exe" | C:\Users\admin\Desktop\NPE.exe | explorer.exe | ||||||||||||
User: admin Company: Symantec Corporation Integrity Level: HIGH Description: Norton Power Eraser Exit code: 0 Version: 5.3.0.67 Modules
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| 992 | "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\NPE.exe" | C:\Users\admin\Desktop\NPE.exe | — | explorer.exe | |||||||||||
User: admin Company: Symantec Corporation Integrity Level: MEDIUM Description: Norton Power Eraser Exit code: 3221226540 Version: 5.3.0.67 Modules
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Total events
185
Read events
136
Write events
48
Delete events
1
Modification events
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\NPE.exe |
| Operation: | write | Name: | DumpType |
Value: 0 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\NPE.exe |
| Operation: | write | Name: | DumpCount |
Value: 4 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\NPE.exe |
| Operation: | write | Name: | DumpFlags |
Value: 0 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\NPE.exe |
| Operation: | write | Name: | DumpFolder |
Value: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\NPE\LocalDumps | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\Autologger\NPETraceSession |
| Operation: | delete key | Name: | |
Value: | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\Autologger\NPETraceSession |
| Operation: | write | Name: | Start |
Value: 1 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\Autologger\NPETraceSession |
| Operation: | write | Name: | FileName |
Value: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\NPE\NPETraceSessionBoot.etl | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\Autologger\NPETraceSession |
| Operation: | write | Name: | Guid |
Value: {AABF8953-37E8-4872-A177-6DDFBCD83C01} | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\Autologger\NPETraceSession |
| Operation: | write | Name: | BufferSize |
Value: 64 | |||
| (PID) Process: | (896) NPE.exe | Key: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WMI\Autologger\NPETraceSession |
| Operation: | write | Name: | LogFileMode |
Value: 5 | |||
Executable files
1
Suspicious files
4
Text files
2
Unknown types
0
Dropped files
PID | Process | Filename | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\NPE\ErrMgmt\SQCLIENT.dat.log | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\NPE3EB9.tmp | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Windows\TEMP\C95B9F34.tmp | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Windows\TEMP\A0298284.tmp | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Windows\TEMP\3068EDD2.tmp | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Windows\TEMP\33EEC916.tmp | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Windows\TEMP\583BE0C9.tmp | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Windows\TEMP\B55CDDB1.tmp | — | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\NPE\ErrMgmt\SQCLIENT.dat | binary | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
| 896 | NPE.exe | C:\ProgramData\Norton\{086A63F0-6B13-4F29-9695-134E7A01E963}\LC.INI | text | |
MD5:— | SHA256:— | |||
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HTTP(S) requests
3
TCP/UDP connections
4
DNS requests
4
Threats
0
HTTP requests
PID | Process | Method | HTTP Code | IP | URL | CN | Type | Size | Reputation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
896 | NPE.exe | GET | 200 | 152.195.132.112:80 | http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/dm/smrscd.7z | US | compressed | 6.37 Kb | malicious |
896 | NPE.exe | GET | 200 | 152.195.132.112:80 | http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/dm/smrscd.7z | US | compressed | 6.37 Kb | malicious |
896 | NPE.exe | GET | 200 | 152.195.132.112:80 | http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/dm/smrdat.7z | US | compressed | 282 Kb | malicious |
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Connections
PID | Process | IP | Domain | ASN | CN | Reputation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
896 | NPE.exe | 104.103.97.33:443 | support.norton.com | Akamai Technologies, Inc. | NL | whitelisted |
896 | NPE.exe | 40.118.201.45:443 | stats.norton.com | Microsoft Corporation | US | malicious |
896 | NPE.exe | 152.195.132.112:80 | definitions.symantec.com | MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business | US | whitelisted |
DNS requests
Domain | IP | Reputation |
|---|---|---|
support.norton.com |
| whitelisted |
definitions.symantec.com |
| malicious |
stats.qalabs.symantec.com |
| unknown |
stats.norton.com |
| unknown |