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GrooveAuditService.exe

Groove Audit Service

Microsoft Corporation

The executable GrooveAuditService.exe has been detected as malware by 35 anti-virus scanners. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Microsoft Office Groove Audit Service”. Infected by an entry-point obscuring polymorphic file infector which will create a peer-to-peer botnet and receives URLs of additional files to download.
Publisher:
Microsoft Corporation

Product:
Groove Audit Service

Version:
12.0.6500.5000

MD5:
8847eea346fc0e002eb115b43387fdc7

SHA-1:
2415dae5d8fdd734f2ce728734c3b2124bf3c708

SHA-256:
1b0078f4da24049eaa3b7c96ce6422238992d659ed666db7e4d28e2f3ab139e2

Scanner detections:
35 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

Explanation:
The file is infected by a polymorphic file infector virus.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 7:47:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
5690745

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.BK
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
2015.04.25

Avira AntiVirus
W32/Sality.AT
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:Kukacka
150423-1

AVG
Win32/Sality
2014.0.4311

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.15425

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.575

Bkav FE
W32.Sality.PE
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.gen
21884

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.30
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.E.gen
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
5.13.68

G Data
Win32.Sality
15.4.25

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Patched
t3scan.1.8.9.0

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.203.15707

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.543

McAfee
Virus.W32/Sality.gen.z
16.8.708.2

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.197.2.0

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
16.0.0.345

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.beygb
0.30.20.1219

Norman
Win32.Sality.3
03.12.2014 13:20:04

Panda Antivirus
W32/Sality.AA
15.04.25.03

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
4.15.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Win32.KUKU.kt!1591113
23.00.65.15423

Sophos
Mal/Sality-D
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.1.62.1

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.RL
7.2.115

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.RL
10.465.25

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakb
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
39354

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.Gen.A[h]
2014.3.20.0

Zillya! Antivirus
Virus.Sality.Win32.23
2.0.0.2153

File size:
135.3 KB (138,584 bytes)

Product version:
4.2.2.2807

Copyright:
© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
GrooveAuditService.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\microsoft office\office12\grooveauditservice.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/26/2009 4:44:57 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:U4kdEh2iCDiY8A1GOFOpsO05DdqSk9C8AAYa56Z1o:U4liqKGOF3ZdqSk9/AXaMo

Entry address:
0x73E7

Entry point:
60, 05, C0, 8C, 35, 57, 88, EF, EB, 06, 84, F4, 0C, CF, 12, E4, 85, FE, 81, F9, 3F, 70, 00, 00, 73, 0E, 69, C7, E7, 5F, CC, DB, 87, EF, 8D, 2D, 9A, 11, FA, CF, 33, F5, F7, C7, B1, 5B, AC, 2D, 3B, F5, C7, C6, E6, 6B, 9D, 67, BB, C4, 97, 01, 00, F3, F3, 0F, BF, E9, 81, F3, 13, 98, 00, 00, 4F, 81, F3, C5, 06, 00, 00, 69, F7, 99, 69, DC, 05, C7, C7, 87, 63, A0, 8B, 89, ED, 33, FD, 3B, F5, 0F, BF, ED, F3, C7, C7, 85, 83, 90, 77, 81, F9, BE, 25, 00, 00, 70, 0A, 89, EF, 8B, FD, C7, C7, 97, 36, AC, 88, 8B, FB, 57...
 
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Entropy:
7.4065

Code size:
33 KB (33,792 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Microsoft Office Groove Audit Service

Type:
Win32OwnProcess


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