What is CheckUActive.exe?

CheckUActive.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected CheckUActive.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

CheckUActive.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

CheckUActive.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

53 of the 70 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the CheckUActive.exe file. That's a 76% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Zusy.290067
AegisLab Trojan.Win32.Generic.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Malware/Win32.Generic.C2540367
Alibaba TrojanDownloader:Win32/Generic.cc1c1eef
ALYac Gen:Variant.Zusy.290067
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.Fuerboos
APEX Malicious
Arcabit Trojan.Zusy.D46D13
Avast Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
AVG Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
Avira TR/Dldr.Agent.futfn
BitDefender Gen:Variant.Zusy.290067
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Fuerboos
Comodo Malware@#3d492fj4dlqcv
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_60% (W)
Cybereason malicious.66a4b4
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.OMPM-6497
DrWeb Trojan.PWS.Stealer.24358
Emsisoft Gen:Variant.Zusy.290067 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.ECC
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Dldr.Agent.futfn
FireEye Generic.mg.f5681b266a4b477c
Fortinet W32/Agent.ECC!tr.dldr
GData Gen:Variant.Zusy.290067
Ikarus Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent
K7AntiVirus Trojan-Downloader ( 005395a51 )
K7GW Trojan-Downloader ( 005395a51 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
Malwarebytes Trojan.Agent
MAX malware (ai score=100)
McAfee Generic.dxj
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.ch
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Zusy.290067
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Mlw.ffkrga
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.0c3
Rising Trojan.Generic!8.C3 (TFE:5:tebItNh7YuM)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent Win32.Trojan-downloader.Agent.Ecjw
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R002C0PC819
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R002C0PC819
VBA32 TrojanPSW.Stealer
Webroot W32.Trojan.Gen
Yandex Trojan.Agent!V76zS5rdRyU
Zillya Downloader.Agent.Win32.367333
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
53 of the 70 anti-virus programs detected the CheckUActive.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "file_copied": [
        [
            "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c87f22920cbadc8724c72f95967ef4af66c59f2abe29db140e1d6ac1e5bce219.bin",
            "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\dllhost_svc.exe"
        ]
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "kernel32",
        "advapi32",
        "api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1",
        "api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1561841590.3281,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c87f22920cbadc8724c72f95967ef4af66c59f2abe29db140e1d6ac1e5bce219.bin",
        "process_name": "c87f22920cbadc8724c72f95967ef4af66c59f2abe29db140e1d6ac1e5bce219.bin",
        "pid": 2436,
        "summary": {
            "file_copied": [
                [
                    "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c87f22920cbadc8724c72f95967ef4af66c59f2abe29db140e1d6ac1e5bce219.bin",
                    "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\dllhost_svc.exe"
                ]
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32",
                "advapi32",
                "api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1",
                "api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1561841590.5781,
        "ppid": 2736
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".gfids",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Creates a service",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "services",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "CreateServiceA",
                    "return_value": 6230624,
                    "arguments": {
                        "service_start_name": "",
                        "start_type": 2,
                        "service_handle": "0x005f1260",
                        "display_name": "dllhost_svc",
                        "error_control": 0,
                        "service_name": "dllhost_svc",
                        "filepath": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\dllhost_svc.exe",
                        "filepath_r": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\dllhost_svc.exe",
                        "service_manager_handle": "0x005f1198",
                        "desired_access": 983551,
                        "service_type": 16,
                        "password": ""
                    },
                    "time": 1561841590.7501,
                    "tid": 2124,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2436,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 25
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "creates_service"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Checks for the Locally Unique Identifier on the system for a suspicious privilege",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "LookupPrivilegeValueW",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {
                        "system_name": "",
                        "privilege_name": "SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege"
                    },
                    "time": 1561841590.7031,
                    "tid": 2124,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2436,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 17
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "privilege_luid_check"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Installs itself for autorun at Windows startup",
        "severity": 3,
        "marks": [
            {
                "service_name": "dllhost_svc",
                "type": "generic",
                "service_path": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\dllhost_svc.exe"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "persistence_autorun"
    }
]

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": 3.0571670532227,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2234,
            "time": 3.0392050743103,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2562,
            "time": 1.0482602119446,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2890,
            "time": 3.051167011261,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3218,
            "time": 1.549553155899,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3546,
            "time": -0.10023498535156,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3874,
            "time": 1.1192791461945,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 9252,
            "time": 1.0784060955048,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 13444,
            "time": 3.1572861671448,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "589892340618ccd2491b32ab845553b7228f86675a2b2ec6edd2e33c629dec5a",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "b2e0a48950f0e8354e8ef5fecf034a6339a0145bd79dfc99f1db43e453eacd4f",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

CheckUActive.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove CheckUActive.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the CheckUActive.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that CheckUActive.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 CheckUActive.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the CheckUActive.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 CheckUActive.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\CheckUActive.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the CheckUActive.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If CheckUActive.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If CheckUActive.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If CheckUActive.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 CheckUActive.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
MD5f5681b266a4b477c22a61ad05b19cfaa
SHA256c87f22920cbadc8724c72f95967ef4af66c59f2abe29db140e1d6ac1e5bce219

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to checkuactive.exe:

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

checkuactive.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.

checkuactive.exe has stopped working.

End Program - checkuactive.exe. This program is not responding.

checkuactive.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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