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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/

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  • MALICIOUS

    No malicious indicators.
  • SUSPICIOUS

    • Creates files in the program directory

      • NPE.exe (PID: 896)
    • Creates files in the Windows directory

      • NPE.exe (PID: 896)
    • Executable content was dropped or overwritten

      • 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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No Malware configuration.

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

ProductVersion: 5.3
ProductName: Norton Power Eraser
OriginalFileName: NPE.exe
LegalCopyright: Copyright (c) 1997-2019 Symantec Corporation
InternalName: NPE
FileVersion: 5.3.0.67
FileDescription: Norton Power Eraser
CompanyName: Symantec Corporation
CharacterSet: Unicode
LanguageCode: English (U.S.)
FileSubtype: -
ObjectFileType: Executable application
FileOS: Windows NT 32-bit
FileFlags: (none)
FileFlagsMask: 0x003f
ProductVersionNumber: 5.3.0.0
FileVersionNumber: 5.3.0.67
Subsystem: Windows GUI
SubsystemVersion: 5.1
ImageVersion: -
OSVersion: 5.1
EntryPoint: 0x423dad
UninitializedDataSize: -
InitializedDataSize: 3363840
CodeSize: 6224384
LinkerVersion: 14
PEType: PE32
TimeStamp: 2019:12:09 23:00:11+01:00
MachineType: Intel 386 or later, and compatibles

Summary

Architecture: IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386
Subsystem: IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_WINDOWS_GUI
Compilation Date: 09-Dec-2019 22:00:11
Detected languages:
  • English - United States
Debug artifacts:
  • C:\bld_area\NMR_r5.3_67\bin\bin.iru\NPE.pdb
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:
  • IMAGE_FILE_32BIT_MACHINE
  • IMAGE_FILE_EXECUTABLE_IMAGE

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
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Total processes
38
Monitored processes
2
Malicious processes
1
Suspicious processes
0

Behavior graph

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start npe.exe no specs npe.exe

Process information

PID
CMD
Path
Indicators
Parent process
992"C:\Users\admin\Desktop\NPE.exe" C:\Users\admin\Desktop\NPE.exeexplorer.exe
User:
admin
Company:
Symantec Corporation
Integrity Level:
MEDIUM
Description:
Norton Power Eraser
Exit code:
3221226540
Version:
5.3.0.67
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
Version:
5.3.0.67
Total events
185
Read events
136
Write events
0
Delete events
0

Modification events

No data
Executable files
1
Suspicious files
4
Text files
2
Unknown types
0

Dropped files

PID
Process
Filename
Type
896NPE.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\NPE\ErrMgmt\SQCLIENT.dat.log
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\NPE3EB9.tmp
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\C95B9F34.tmp
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\A0298284.tmp
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\3068EDD2.tmp
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\33EEC916.tmp
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\583BE0C9.tmp
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\Windows\TEMP\B55CDDB1.tmp
MD5:
SHA256:
896NPE.exeC:\ProgramData\Norton\{086A63F0-6B13-4F29-9695-134E7A01E963}\LC.INItext
MD5:76FBE4A3557F7D6C8699F42BC2A375DA
SHA256:5359853CFD9B0C6171AF6EBBCFCC3AFBA0957BFD44EBE646C2834249FBE6232D
896NPE.exeC:\Windows\System32\drivers\SMR521.SYSexecutable
MD5:9D18EEDC756FFFD1E7B4167D936FE67B
SHA256:40978D27C6EE0B6347BF174FD133232F7EAE5546D99234C7C54E20D025B22AEC
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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
152.195.132.112:80
definitions.symantec.com
MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business
US
whitelisted
896
NPE.exe
40.118.201.45:443
stats.norton.com
Microsoft Corporation
US
malicious

DNS requests

Domain
IP
Reputation
support.norton.com
  • 104.103.97.33
whitelisted
definitions.symantec.com
  • 152.195.132.112
malicious
stats.qalabs.symantec.com
unknown
stats.norton.com
  • 40.118.201.45
unknown

Threats

No threats detected
No debug info