What is Private Tax 2015.exe?

Private Tax 2015.exe is part of Private Tax 2015 and developed by Information Factory AG according to the Private Tax 2015.exe version information.

Private Tax 2015.exe's description is "Steuererklärung Zürich 2015 natürliche Personen"

Private Tax 2015.exe is digitally signed by Information Factory AG.

Private Tax 2015.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files\Private Tax 2015\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about Private Tax 2015.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on Private Tax 2015.exe:

PropertyValue
Product namePrivate Tax 2015
Company nameInformation Factory AG
File descriptionSteuererklärung Zürich 2015 natürliche Personen
Internal namePrivate Tax 2015
Original filenamePrivate Tax 2015.exe
Legal copyrightInformation Factory AG
Product version1.5.0
File version1.0

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

Product namePrivate Tax 2015
Company nameInformation Factory AG
File descriptionSteuererklärung Zürich 2015 natür..
Internal namePrivate Tax 2015
Original filenamePrivate Tax 2015.exe
Legal copyrightInformation Factory AG
Product version1.5.0
File version1.0

Digital signatures [?]

Private Tax 2015.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameInformation Factory AG
Certificate issuer nameUSERTrust RSA Code Signing CA
Certificate serial number07bdeacb242c7105b36876036b9e6014

VirusTotal report

None of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the Private Tax 2015.exe file.

None of the 72 anti-virus programs detected the Private Tax 2015.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

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Generic

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Signatures

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Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

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Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandboxScreenshot from the sandbox

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD51df256d582fab39015666f81f7d29465
SHA2564b061114f9e35dca1cf57aed62b467ae5315791dcc0112c7f4d0e4dd19a495bc

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to private tax 2015.exe:

private tax 2015.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

private tax 2015.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.

Steuererklärung Zürich 2015 natürliche Personen has stopped working.

End Program - private tax 2015.exe. This program is not responding.

private tax 2015.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

private tax 2015.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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