What is ProduKey64.exe?

ProduKey64.exe is part of ProduKey and developed by NirSoft according to the ProduKey64.exe version information.

ProduKey64.exe's description is "ProduKey"

ProduKey64.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected ProduKey64.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on ProduKey64.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameProduKey
Company nameNirSoft
File descriptionProduKey
Internal nameProduKey
Original filenameProduKey.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2005 - 2014 Nir Sofer
Product version1.70
File version1.70

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

Product nameProduKey
Company nameNirSoft
File descriptionProduKey
Internal nameProduKey
Original filenameProduKey.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2005 - 2014 Nir Sofer
Product version1.70
File version1.70

VirusTotal report

55 of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the ProduKey64.exe file. That's a 76% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Application.Agent.BSO
AhnLab-V3 Win64/Tenga.3666
Alibaba Virus:Win32/Tenga.4e1af085
Antiy-AVL Virus/Win32.Tenga.a
Arcabit Application.Agent.BSO
Avast Win32:Patched-XF [Trj]
AVG Win32:Patched-XF [Trj]
Avira W32/Stanit
Baidu Win32.Virus.Tenga.a
BitDefender Application.Agent.BSO
CAT-QuickHeal W32.Tenga.A
ClamAV Win.Worm.Tenga-2
CMC Virus.Win32.Tenga!O
Comodo Malware@#1nogpzgfzu19f
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason malicious.199479
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W64/Gael.A
DrWeb Win32.Gael.3666
Emsisoft Application.Agent.BSO (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 Win32/Tenga.gen
F-Prot W64/Gael.A
F-Secure Malware.W32/Stanit
FireEye Generic.mg.2738036199479faa
Fortinet W32/Tenga.A
GData Application.Agent.BSO
Ikarus Virus.Win32.Gaelicum
Invincea heuristic
Jiangmin Win32/Tenga.a
Kaspersky Virus.Win32.Tenga.a
MAX malware (ai score=97)
MaxSecure virus.tenga.a
McAfee W32/Gael.worm.a
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win64.Triusor.ch
Microsoft Virus:Win32/Gael.D
MicroWorld-eScan Application.Agent.BSO
NANO-Antivirus Virus.Win64.Tenga.fsyd
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Generic Malware
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.ba5
Rising Virus.Tenga!1.9BD8 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Malicious PE
Sophos W32/Tenga-A
Symantec W32.Licum
Tencent Virus.Win64.Remain.VriutCE.Gen
TheHacker W32/Gael.worm.gen.A
TotalDefense Win32/Gael.3666.A
TrendMicro PE_TENGA.A
TrendMicro-HouseCall PE_TENGA.A
VIPRE Virus.Win32.Tenga.e (v)
Yandex Win32.Tenga.A
ZoneAlarm Virus.Win32.Tenga.a
Zoner Virus.Win32.293
55 of the 72 anti-virus programs detected the ProduKey64.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\fa2078f9586cb2bc09912deea55678b075471ca66662c3f6af67b72a664a6a47.bin",
        "process_name": "fa2078f9586cb2bc09912deea55678b075471ca66662c3f6af67b72a664a6a47.bin",
        "pid": 2016,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568310784.5781,
        "ppid": 2892
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568310784.3281,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "c:\\Projects\\VS2005\\ProduKey\\x64\\Release\\ProduKey.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "One or more processes crashed",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "__notification__",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "raw": [
                        "stacktrace"
                    ],
                    "api": "__exception__",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
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                        "registers": {
                            "r14": 0,
                            "r9": 5368833100,
                            "rcx": 8796092882944,
                            "rsi": 0,
                            "r10": 0,
                            "rbx": 0,
                            "rdi": 0,
                            "r11": 0,
                            "r8": 8796092882944,
                            "rdx": 5368833100,
                            "rbp": 0,
                            "r15": 0,
                            "r12": 0,
                            "rsp": 1245152,
                            "rax": 2004509984,
                            "r13": 0
                        },
                        "exception": {
                            "instruction_r": "60 b9 50 2b 01 00 e8 00 00 00 00 5f 4f 66 31 ff",
                            "symbol": "fa2078f9586cb2bc09912deea55678b075471ca66662c3f6af67b72a664a6a47+0x1e44d",
                            "address": "0x14001e44d",
                            "module": "fa2078f9586cb2bc09912deea55678b075471ca66662c3f6af67b72a664a6a47.bin",
                            "exception_code": "0xc000001d",
                            "offset": 123981
                        }
                    },
                    "time": 1568310784.7501,
                    "tid": 1268,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2016,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 0
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "raises_exception"
    }
]

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": 6.2169280052185,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2134,
            "time": 6.1758279800415,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2462,
            "time": 4.1534049510956,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2790,
            "time": 6.1880609989166,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3118,
            "time": 4.6570858955383,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3446,
            "time": 3.0398888587952,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3774,
            "time": 4.6696889400482,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8250,
            "time": 4.1745738983154,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 12442,
            "time": 6.2632069587708,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "0479a3761e5fc2be0a263c434a4438d116ceb3c595624ddf75e417fb13c8c31a",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "96e040a3d8cd32b1b66b4ea7cc6d45c477ddfe837f33ba1534ab84cb3d727ba9",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

ProduKey64.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove ProduKey64.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the ProduKey64.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that ProduKey64.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 ProduKey64.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the ProduKey64.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 ProduKey64.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\ProduKey64.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the ProduKey64.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If ProduKey64.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If ProduKey64.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If ProduKey64.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 ProduKey64.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
MD52738036199479faa479afb7821468d8b
SHA256fa2078f9586cb2bc09912deea55678b075471ca66662c3f6af67b72a664a6a47

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to produkey64.exe:

produkey64.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

produkey64.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.

ProduKey has stopped working.

End Program - produkey64.exe. This program is not responding.

produkey64.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

produkey64.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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