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The executable perl.exe, “Perl Command Line Interpreter” has been detected as malware by 35 anti-virus scanners. This virus which infects .exe files stops various security software and prevents some core Windows utilities from running. It also tries to download other files from a remote server, including other malware.
Publisher:
ActiveState

Product:
ActivePerl

Description:
Perl Command Line Interpreter

Version:
5,16,3,1603

MD5:
cf0196dc4a0afa9a9d5de62a8e994c8f

SHA-1:
baf7f42f1c3b27f56b989df820297834263acf07

SHA-256:
8a8043d2ca2602034d1a83b3de739edc916a05d0c0f55998ccdd3a42e48579c0

Scanner detections:
35 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

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

Analysis date:
11/7/2025 3:13:23 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
1038

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.BL
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
14.04.02

Avira AntiVirus
W32/Sality.AT
7.11.140.220

avast!
Win32:SaliCode
2014.9-140402

AVG
Win32/Sality
2015.0.3516

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.1442

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.460

Bkav FE
W32.Sality.PE
1.3.0.4959

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.Gen
18036

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.22
9.0.1.092

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
8.14.04.02.07

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA
8.9628

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
11.2014-02-04_4

G Data
Win32.Sality
14.4.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Virus.Win32.Sality
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.176.11637

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
14.0.0.4076

McAfee
W32/Sality.gen.z
5600.7172

Microsoft Security Essentials
Virus:Win32/Sality.AT
1.10401

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
15.0.0.276

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.beygb
0.28.0.58873

Norman
Sality.ZHB
11.20140402

nProtect
Win32.Sality.3
14.04.02.01

Panda Antivirus
W32/Sality.AA
14.04.02.07

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM19.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
4.14.12.00

Sophos
Mal/Sality-D
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.0.10854

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.RL
7.2.92

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.RL
10.465.02

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakc
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.at
27964

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.N
2011.4.7.4223

File size:
456.1 KB (467,028 bytes)

Product version:
Build 1603 [296746]

Copyright:
Copyright 1987-2011, Larry Wall, Binary build by ActiveState, http://www.ActiveState.com

Original file name:
perl.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\perl.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/13/2013 8:59:35 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:B1MDSOpaneH8wbNwTQ1FGgmfOCaEuUpjjY:TMDSwaeH8wpZ1FGgmfOCa85Y

Entry address:
0x1016

Entry point:
71, 02, 23, D9, 4E, 84, C3, 80, D2, F3, 8B, C3, 80, FE, F7, F3, 88, F4, 20, EA, 31, E9, E8, 1A, 00, 00, 00, 69, CF, C1, 97, B4, 45, 40, C6, C1, EF, 88, CF, 81, EA, F7, D7, 00, 00, 85, DD, 81, C2, 7E, 0B, 00, 00, 59, 88, FB, 8A, D2, 80, C4, E6, C7, C7, 1F, 69, FD, 2E, F3, F7, C2, D6, 7E, 11, 29, 0F, AF, F0, 89, DB, FF, C0, 47, F7, C6, 93, E3, A3, 0D, F2, 0F, AF, D3, 14, 7B, 0F, AF, FD, 86, DB, 81, F6, F0, 65, 32, AF, 0A, F4, 0F, BE, D1, C6, C2, 12, 85, FF, 28, F2, 8D, 05, 1F, C6, C3, 9C, 35, B4, B4, 40, 89...
 
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Entropy:
6.4060

Code size:
4 KB (4,096 bytes)

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