What is ICO.EXE?

ICO.EXE is part of MouseSuite 98 and developed by Primax Electronics Ltd. according to the ICO.EXE version information.

ICO.EXE's description is "Mouse Suite detector"

ICO.EXE is digitally signed by PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD..

ICO.EXE is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files\Lenovo\Lenovo Mouse Suite\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about ICO.EXE.

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VirusTotal report

None of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the ICO.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": [
        "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
        "WINSTA.dll",
        "Kernel32.DLL",
        "kernel32.dll",
        "wtsapi32.DLL",
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "RPCRT4.dll",
        "USER32.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\uxtheme.dll"
    ],
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Windows\\Globalization\\Sorting\\sortdefault.nls"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Primax\\Mouse Suite 98"
    ],
    "mutex": [
        "ICOSPY Daemon"
    ],
    "file_failed": [
        "\\??\\PrimaxPointingDeviceFilter",
        "\\??\\LEPointingDeviceFilter"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
    ],
    "directory_enumerated": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\Pelmiced.exe",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ico.exe",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\FSRremoS.EXE"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\48d24142aa0ac61ddcd8f37d6b28da24b85191dbd86b5b2b58ff21821af44a00.bin",
        "process_name": "48d24142aa0ac61ddcd8f37d6b28da24b85191dbd86b5b2b58ff21821af44a00.bin",
        "pid": 2456,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
                "WINSTA.dll",
                "Kernel32.DLL",
                "kernel32.dll",
                "wtsapi32.DLL",
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "RPCRT4.dll",
                "USER32.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\uxtheme.dll"
            ],
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\Globalization\\Sorting\\sortdefault.nls"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Primax\\Mouse Suite 98"
            ],
            "mutex": [
                "ICOSPY Daemon"
            ],
            "file_failed": [
                "\\??\\PrimaxPointingDeviceFilter",
                "\\??\\LEPointingDeviceFilter"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
            ],
            "directory_enumerated": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\Pelmiced.exe",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ico.exe",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\FSRremoS.EXE"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1561690401.6406,
        "ppid": 2724
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1561690401.4219,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Checks if process is being debugged by a debugger",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 0,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "last_error": 0,
                    "nt_status": -1073741772,
                    "api": "IsDebuggerPresent",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {},
                    "time": 1561690401.7656,
                    "tid": 2676,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2456,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 39
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "checks_debugger"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "Armadillo v1.71",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Foreign language identified in PE resource",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x000100e8",
                "filetype": "dBase IV DBT of @.DBF, block length 512, next free block index 40, next free block 16571, next used block 0",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000002e8"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x000103d0",
                "filetype": "MS Windows icon resource - 1 icon, 32x32, 16 colors",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000014"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "origin_langid"
    }
]

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": 662,
            "time": 6.1704959869385,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5342,
            "time": 12.170912981033,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
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            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
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        },
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        {
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            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
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        {
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            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
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            "dport": 1900,
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    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "51c2e8841464b45eddb7f2ef395bff0b5a303ffa4a4964d4d547d5e14873f291",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "4b822f265962c27f6b13f8a4261787e75f31ae866fc753c6545e9108c697cc84",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

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