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explorer.exe

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The executable explorer.exe has been detected as malware by 1 anti-virus scanner. Although this file uses the name explorer.exe, this is NOT the File Explorer program distributed with the Windows OS that is found in C:\Windows.
Publisher:
Microsoft*  (Invalid match)

Product:
Win

Version:
1.00

MD5:
1888c4e37c61ae32489a3bcae6d808da

SHA-1:
5400555bcfa0f6a27c8d0bc9b53d86940e7fe964

SHA-256:
4238ccef4f123d015ba2bb39f7e31e74f7d5dcde0499dab4e8b0800ec938a8ae

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Malware

Analysis date:
4/27/2024 9:35:40 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Trojan.Agent.VB (M)
17.2.20.7

File size:
207 KB (211,979 bytes)

Product version:
1.00

Original file name:
Win.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\windows\system\explorer.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/15/2011 2:01:16 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

Entry address:
0x3670

Entry point:
68, D4, 3E, 40, 00, E8, F0, FF, FF, FF, 00, 00, 40, 00, 00, 00, 30, 00, 00, 00, 38, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 91, 83, A8, 05, 80, 67, 13, 47, B1, 52, 93, 58, 73, 8B, 90, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, 40, 00, F4, A8, F6, 00, 57, 69, 6E, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, A5, F6, 00, 19, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 88, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 02, 00, 00, 00, 07, 00, 00, 00, 85, 4E, F1, 7E, B1, 9C, 9A, 4B, 98, C2, C9, F7, 1A, 70, A9, 38, 01, 00, 00, 00, 98, 00, 00, 00, A8, 00, 00, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.1055

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual Basic v5.0/v6.0

Code size:
172 KB (176,128 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run Once)
Registry location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Name:
Explorer

Command:
C:\windows\system\explorer.exe ro


The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a104-121-2-177.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (104.121.2.177:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a104-121-11-119.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (104.121.11.119:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to a104-121-24-190.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (104.121.24.190:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-52-206-203-23.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (52.206.203.23:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a-0001.a-msedge.net  (204.79.197.200:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to projects.sourceforge.net  (216.34.181.96:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-52-2-10-61.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (52.2.10.61:443)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ch3.sourceforge.net  (216.34.181.60:443)

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