What is Pmxdll.dll?

Pmxdll.dll is usually located in the 'c:\DRIVERS\WIN\ME\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected Pmxdll.dll.

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Vendor and version information [?]

Pmxdll.dll does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

Pmxdll.dll is not signed.

VirusTotal report

63 of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the Pmxdll.dll file. That's a 88% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Win32.Ramnit
AhnLab-V3 Win32/Ramnit.B
ALYac Win32.Ramnit
Antiy-AVL Virus/Win32.Nimnul.a
APEX Malicious
Arcabit Win32.Ramnit
Avast Win32:RmnDrp
AVG Win32:RmnDrp
Avira W32/Ramnit.CD
Baidu Win32.Virus.Nimnul.a
BitDefender Win32.Ramnit
BitDefenderTheta AI:FileInfector.EAEEA7850C
Bkav W32.RammitNNA.PE
CAT-QuickHeal W32.Ramnit.A
ClamAV Win.Trojan.Ramnit-1847
Comodo Virus.Win32.Ramnit.A@1xq65p
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (D)
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Ramnit.B!Generic
DrWeb Win32.Rmnet
Emsisoft Win32.Ramnit (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 Win32/Ramnit.A
F-Prot W32/Ramnit.B!Generic
F-Secure Malware.W32/Ramnit.CD
FireEye Generic.mg.7d7e998549142875
Fortinet W32/Ramnit.A
GData Win32.Virus.Ramnit.C
Ikarus Virus.Ramnit
Invincea heuristic
Jiangmin Win32/PatchFile.et
K7AntiVirus Virus ( 002fe95d1 )
K7GW Virus ( 002fe95d1 )
Kaspersky Virus.Win32.Nimnul.a
Kingsoft Win32.Ramnit.la.30720
MAX malware (ai score=85)
MaxSecure Virus.Nimnul.A
McAfee W32/Ramnit.q
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Ramnit.cm
Microsoft Virus:Win32/Ramnit.A
MicroWorld-eScan Win32.Ramnit
NANO-Antivirus Virus.Win32.Ramnit.eslalb
Panda W32/Cosmu.gen
Qihoo-360 Virus.Win32.Ramnit.B
Rising Virus.Ramnit!1.9AA5 (CLASSIC)
Sangfor Malware
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos W32/Patched-I
Symantec W32.Ramnit!inf
TACHYON Virus/W32.Ramnit.B
Tencent Virus.Win32.Nimnul.d
TotalDefense Win32/Ramnit.A
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro PE_RAMNIT.H
TrendMicro-HouseCall PE_RAMNIT.H
VBA32 Virus.Win32.Nimnul.a
VIPRE Virus.Win32.Ramnit.a (v)
ViRobot Win32.Ramnit.E
Yandex Win32.Ramnit.Gen.3
Zillya Virus.Nimnul.Win32.1
ZoneAlarm Virus.Win32.Nimnul.a
Zoner Trojan.Win32.Ramnit.23698
63 of the 72 anti-virus programs detected the Pmxdll.dll file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\201a61eaddb6802ef74c423a0465fb1fe635f6e2edf08f78d5eab27fd07f8916.bin.dll",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\201a61eaddb6802ef74c423a0465fb1fe635f6e2edf08f78d5eab27fd07f8916.bin.dll.manifest"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\WMR\\Disable",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\201a61eaddb6802ef74c423a0465fb1fe635f6e2edf08f78d5eab27fd07f8916.bin.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\rundll32.exe",
        "process_name": "rundll32.exe",
        "pid": 856,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\201a61eaddb6802ef74c423a0465fb1fe635f6e2edf08f78d5eab27fd07f8916.bin.dll",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\201a61eaddb6802ef74c423a0465fb1fe635f6e2edf08f78d5eab27fd07f8916.bin.dll.manifest"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\WMR\\Disable",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\201a61eaddb6802ef74c423a0465fb1fe635f6e2edf08f78d5eab27fd07f8916.bin.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1587667984.609375,
        "ppid": 2132
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1587667984.359375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

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": ".rmnet",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.775310287390463,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0000f000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00331000",
                    "entropy": 7.775310287390463,
                    "name": ".rmnet",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0000f000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.3488372093023256,
                "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": 3.063464879989624,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5326,
            "time": 3.0225989818573,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5654,
            "time": 1.0870628356933594,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5982,
            "time": 3.0340399742126465,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6310,
            "time": 1.5992708206176758,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6638,
            "time": -0.08783102035522461,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6966,
            "time": 1.1415958404541016,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 18814,
            "time": 1.1080009937286377,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 27198,
            "time": 3.1416268348693848,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "f0c708cd247765b2df2b05ef972a83d9a2997ce5c24dd132cda726189e0aa378",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "3ec08c1d0e3d7ae427a4f8ceca7e9051358cd447e6316fefc030f41884a29f6b",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandboxScreenshot from the sandbox

Pmxdll.dll removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove Pmxdll.dll with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the Pmxdll.dll file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that Pmxdll.dll 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 Pmxdll.dll in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the Pmxdll.dll 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 Pmxdll.dll in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\DRIVERS\WIN\ME\Pmxdll.dll
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the Pmxdll.dll file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If Pmxdll.dll still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If Pmxdll.dll is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If Pmxdll.dll 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 Pmxdll.dll 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
MD57d7e99854914287562f9e47e4f47dc6c
SHA256201a61eaddb6802ef74c423a0465fb1fe635f6e2edf08f78d5eab27fd07f8916

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