What is QUOTATION.exe?

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

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

Digital signatures [?]

QUOTATION.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

54 of the 73 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the QUOTATION.exe file. That's a 74% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.31937803
AegisLab Trojan.Win32.Crypt.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Win-Trojan/Delphiless.Exp
Alibaba Trojan:Win32/Injector.6bf60daa
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.31937803
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.Crypt
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1E7550B
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira TR/Kryptik.mumeo
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.31937803
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Crypt
ClamAV Win.Dropper.Fqio-6961154-0
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason malicious.baf650
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.JSNN-2698
DrWeb Trojan.PWS.Stealer.26159
Emsisoft Trojan.Crypt (A)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Injector.EFGC
F-Prot W32/Trojan3.ANXS
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Kryptik.mumeo
FireEye Generic.mg.b7a2e7760c337ee0
Fortinet W32/Injector.EESQ!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.31937803
Ikarus Trojan.Inject
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0054d4361 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0054d4361 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Crypt.gen
MAX malware (ai score=100)
McAfee Trojan-FQIO!B7A2E7760C33
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Fareit.bc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.A!MTB
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.31937803
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Crypt.fptqfn
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.ed1
Rising Trojan.Injector!1.AFE3 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/Fareit-Q
Symantec Trojan.Gen.MBT
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Crypt.Pgwg
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.SMD1.hp
TrendMicro-HouseCall TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.SMD1.hp
VBA32 TScope.Trojan.Delf
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Injector.799232.Q
Webroot W32.Trojan.Gen
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Crypt.gen
54 of the 73 anti-virus programs detected the QUOTATION.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "dwmapi.dll",
        "advapi32",
        "user32",
        "shell32"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568296385.3438,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c8c5629298a6ea6ffb5c9cab8cefa03db4b77c141cb65a96ece0d0f6aa3f8fc1.bin",
        "process_name": "c8c5629298a6ea6ffb5c9cab8cefa03db4b77c141cb65a96ece0d0f6aa3f8fc1.bin",
        "pid": 2588,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "dwmapi.dll",
                "advapi32",
                "user32",
                "shell32"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568296385.7188,
        "ppid": 2132
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "CODE",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "DATA",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "BSS",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "BobSoft Mini Delphi -> BoB \/ BobSoft",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2588,
                        "region_size": 4096,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x003d0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568296385.7968,
                    "tid": 2500,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2588,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 105
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2588,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 1,
                        "length": 28672,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x01dc1000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568296389.8438,
                    "tid": 2500,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2588,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 375
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2588,
                        "region_size": 4096,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x004f0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568296389.8438,
                    "tid": 2500,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2588,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 380
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Searches running processes potentially to identify processes for sandbox evasion, code injection or memory dumping",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "Process32NextW",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_name": "c8c5629298a6ea6ffb5c9cab8cefa03db4b77c141cb65a96ece0d0f6aa3f8fc1.bin",
                        "snapshot_handle": "0x000000ec",
                        "process_identifier": 2588
                    },
                    "time": 1568296390.3898,
                    "tid": 2500,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2588,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 422
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "injection_process_search"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.4072369709597,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0003d000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x0008d000",
                    "entropy": 7.4072369709597,
                    "name": ".rsrc",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0003cea4"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.31302116741501,
                "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"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Expresses interest in specific running processes",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "process",
                "ioc": "c8c5629298a6ea6ffb5c9cab8cefa03db4b77c141cb65a96ece0d0f6aa3f8fc1.bin",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "process_interest"
    }
]

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": 3.078341960907,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5830,
            "time": 3.0132188796997,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6158,
            "time": 1.0341308116913,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6486,
            "time": 3.0213668346405,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6814,
            "time": 1.5356688499451,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7142,
            "time": -0.099545001983643,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 7470,
            "time": 1.5478918552399,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 21502,
            "time": 1.0626549720764,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 29886,
            "time": 3.1098158359528,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "2b13a4afc8fe58597ba5a6447cfa39ce3bd392175b35bbb961f11e3de28c166a",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "56316bd2c3024ec3c5a184f592a71419e0f91e5439ae0baeec685be42e331860",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

QUOTATION.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove QUOTATION.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the QUOTATION.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that QUOTATION.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 QUOTATION.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the QUOTATION.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 QUOTATION.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\QUOTATION.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the QUOTATION.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If QUOTATION.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If QUOTATION.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If QUOTATION.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 QUOTATION.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
MD5b7a2e7760c337ee0947160d3cddcd34e
SHA256c8c5629298a6ea6ffb5c9cab8cefa03db4b77c141cb65a96ece0d0f6aa3f8fc1

Error Messages

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

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

quotation.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.

quotation.exe has stopped working.

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

quotation.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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