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GrooveAuditService.exe

Groove Audit Service

Microsoft Corporation

The executable GrooveAuditService.exe has been detected as malware by 36 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:
12.0.4518.1014

MD5:
8211daf9af7a932812df1cfcff392e77

SHA-1:
6d4e155201be8d40ab01c686b547c77faae729b4

SHA-256:
53b21b71131a00df417cde4331426d89528780a56ba2b4a10fd89582e000a1e4

Scanner detections:
36 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

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

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 6:55:53 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
838

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.FA.Gen
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
2014.10.20

Avira AntiVirus
W32/Sality.AT
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:Sality
141003-0

AVG
Win32/Sality
2014.0.4040

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.141019

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.1460

Bkav FE
W32.Sality.PE
1.3.0.4959

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.Gen
19854

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.22
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
8.14.10.19.11

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
11.2014-19-10_1

G Data
Win32.Sality
14.10.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Virus.Win32.Vitru
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.184.13727

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.494

McAfee
W32/Sality.gen.z
5600.6972

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.185.3705.0

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
15.0.0.876

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.yusp
0.28.2.62671

Norman
Sality.ZHB
11.20141019

nProtect
Win32.Sality.3
14.10.19.01

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM19.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
10.14.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Win32.KUKU.GEN!1463551
23.00.65.141017

Sophos
Mal/Sality-D
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.0.11237

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.ER
7.2.292

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.ER
10.465.19

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakb
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4734158
33706

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.N
2011.4.7.4223

Zillya! Antivirus
Virus.Sality.Win32.20
2.0.0.1960

File size:
136.3 KB (139,552 bytes)

Product version:
4.2.0.2623

Copyright:
© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
GrooveAuditService.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/27/2006 8:44:49 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:+0y33jRc8yu8Vq1OFhIdTgD5XQorZknow3BW/HU:+zn1ZyJM1OFeomorziBc0

Entry address:
0x73AB

Entry point:
F7, DA, C6, C5, 5D, F7, D6, 85, FA, 2C, F4, 68, A5, E9, 3C, 00, 68, 55, 24, 2E, 00, FF, C2, E8, 22, 00, 00, 00, 75, 08, 0F, C8, 0F, C9, 87, F7, 3B, DA, 12, C7, 81, ED, 3C, 6F, 00, 00, 3D, E8, 05, 00, 00, 75, 03, 80, D5, 42, 81, C5, 79, 17, 00, 00, 8D, 2D, 21, 8C, 62, C8, 78, 03, 0F, BF, C0, 8D, 15, 15, 0F, 00, 00, 81, F2, B3, 08, 00, 00, 3A, FE, 0F, AF, C5, 86, F9, 81, EA, 8C, 08, 00, 00, 8A, FB, 81, C2, 8B, 08, 00, 00, FF, C6, FE, C4, 81, FA, CC, 00, 00, 00, 73, DF, 5F, 71, 02, 2B, D2, C7, C5, F3, 09, 25...
 
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Entropy:
7.4133

Code size:
33 KB (33,792 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Microsoft Office Groove Audit Service

Type:
Win32OwnProcess


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