What is Adobe Plugin Updater.exe?

Adobe Plugin Updater.exe's description is " " according to the Adobe Plugin Updater.exe version information.

Adobe Plugin Updater.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected Adobe Plugin Updater.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on Adobe Plugin Updater.exe:

PropertyValue
File description
Internal nameuwrhGKPkWvxGUpFUm.exe
Original filenameuwrhGKPkWvxGUpFUm.exe
Legal copyright
Product version0.0.0.0
File version0.0.0.0

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

File description
Internal nameuwrhGKPkWvxGUpFUm.exe
Original filenameuwrhGKPkWvxGUpFUm.exe
Legal copyright
Product version0.0.0.0
File version0.0.0.0

Digital signatures [?]

Adobe Plugin Updater.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

50 of the 69 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the Adobe Plugin Updater.exe file. That's a 72% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Gen:Heur.Conjar.1
AegisLab Trojan.MSIL.Crypt.4!c
Alibaba Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.0ee83713
ALYac Trojan.MSIL.Crypt.gen
Antiy-AVL Trojan/MSIL.Crypt
Arcabit Trojan.Conjar.1
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira HEUR/AGEN.1040078
BitDefender Gen:Heur.Conjar.1
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.MSIL
Comodo Application.MSIL.Amonetize.AEF@6ji1v1
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_90% (W)
Cybereason malicious.fb4f5d
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.DJDJ-1478
DrWeb Trojan.Siggen3.29799
Emsisoft Gen:Heur.Conjar.1 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/TrojanDropper.Agent.EGH
F-Secure Heuristic.HEUR/AGEN.1040078
FireEye Generic.mg.a7a0f3cfb4f5d143
Fortinet MSIL/GenKryptik.DCAC!tr
GData Gen:Heur.Conjar.1
Ikarus Trojan.MSIL.Krypt
Invincea heuristic
Jiangmin Trojan.MSIL.lihl
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 00549b4b1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 00549b4b1 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan.MSIL.Crypt.gen
Malwarebytes Trojan.Crypt.MSIL
MAX malware (ai score=99)
McAfee RDN/Generic.dx
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.fc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.A!bit
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Heur.Conjar.1
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Crypt.fpssvk
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.21a
Rising Trojan.Kryptik!8.8 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Trojan.Gen.MBT
Tencent Msil.Trojan.Crypt.Lnxo
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R061C0WE119
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R061C0WE119
VBA32 TScope.Trojan.MSIL
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan.MSIL.Crypt.gen
50 of the 69 anti-virus programs detected the Adobe Plugin Updater.exe file.

Sandbox Report

The following information was gathered by executing the file inside Cuckoo Sandbox.

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "dll_loaded": [
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "SHLWAPI.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
        "gdi32.dll"
    ],
    "file_failed": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\5fcb5064fbf1eaa7feff593c15f814b71156f56784af1473413a8f63f7057e64.bin.config"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards\\v4.0.30319",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\AppPatch",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\v2.0",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\MSCOREE.DLL.local"
    ],
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\5fcb5064fbf1eaa7feff593c15f814b71156f56784af1473413a8f63f7057e64.bin"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\NoGuiFromShim",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\InstallRoot",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\CLRLoadLogDir",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\OnlyUseLatestCLR"
    ],
    "directory_enumerated": [
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\Upgrades.2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\mscorwks.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\5fcb5064fbf1eaa7feff593c15f814b71156f56784af1473413a8f63f7057e64.bin",
        "process_name": "5fcb5064fbf1eaa7feff593c15f814b71156f56784af1473413a8f63f7057e64.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "SHLWAPI.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
                "gdi32.dll"
            ],
            "file_failed": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\5fcb5064fbf1eaa7feff593c15f814b71156f56784af1473413a8f63f7057e64.bin.config"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards\\v4.0.30319",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\AppPatch",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\v2.0",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\MSCOREE.DLL.local"
            ],
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\5fcb5064fbf1eaa7feff593c15f814b71156f56784af1473413a8f63f7057e64.bin"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\NoGuiFromShim",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\InstallRoot",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\CLRLoadLogDir",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\OnlyUseLatestCLR"
            ],
            "directory_enumerated": [
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\Upgrades.2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\mscorwks.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568919192.625,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568919192.3438,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.8144339164721,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0002d200",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00002000",
                    "entropy": 7.8144339164721,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0002d004"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.48521505376344,
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Overall entropy of this PE file is high"
            }
        ],
        "references": [
            "http:\/\/www.forensickb.com\/2013\/03\/file-entropy-explained.html",
            "http:\/\/virii.es\/U\/Using%20Entropy%20Analysis%20to%20Find%20Encrypted%20and%20Packed%20Malware.pdf"
        ],
        "name": "packer_entropy"
    }
]

Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

{
    "tls": [],
    "udp": [
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 546,
            "time": 3.0793950557709,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2234,
            "time": 3.0381810665131,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2562,
            "time": 1.0115580558777,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2890,
            "time": 3.0505311489105,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3218,
            "time": 1.5204391479492,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3546,
            "time": -0.084845066070557,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3874,
            "time": 1.5315091609955,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8350,
            "time": 1.0473029613495,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 12542,
            "time": 3.1258971691132,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "2adc22432d63becb824d9e8260d852d0e039d4e9feca174e0bc1b8b7e57cf0c6",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "472cfe89fce13c435de77e9c41eec93a8417e6f51aa9011d38de83cf68aab82d",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

Adobe Plugin Updater.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove Adobe Plugin Updater.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the Adobe Plugin Updater.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that Adobe Plugin Updater.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

  1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
  2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.
    Screenshot of Start Scan button
  3. When the scan is finished, locate Adobe Plugin Updater.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the Adobe Plugin Updater.exe file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate Adobe Plugin Updater.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\Adobe Plugin Updater.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the Adobe Plugin Updater.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If Adobe Plugin Updater.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If Adobe Plugin Updater.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If Adobe Plugin Updater.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
  8. Restart your computer.
  9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that Adobe Plugin Updater.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
Please select the option that best describe your thoughts on the removal instructions given above








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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5a7a0f3cfb4f5d143c3b95ab7c22df763
SHA2565fcb5064fbf1eaa7feff593c15f814b71156f56784af1473413a8f63f7057e64

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to adobe plugin updater.exe:

adobe plugin updater.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

adobe plugin updater.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

has stopped working.

End Program - adobe plugin updater.exe. This program is not responding.

adobe plugin updater.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

adobe plugin updater.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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