What is appupdui_03.exe?

appupdui_03.exe is part of ???? and developed by ???????????? according to the appupdui_03.exe version information.

appupdui_03.exe's description is "????-????"

appupdui_03.exe is digitally signed by ??????????????.

appupdui_03.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected appupdui_03.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on appupdui_03.exe:

PropertyValue
Product name????
Company name????????????
File description????-????
Internal namedmupdate.exe
Original filenamedmupdate.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2019
Product version1.0.0.1
File version1.0.0.1

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

Product name????
Company name????????????
File description????-????
Internal namedmupdate.exe
Original filenamedmupdate.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2019
Product version1.0.0.1
File version1.0.0.1

Digital signatures [?]

appupdui_03.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer name??????????????
Certificate issuer nameGlobalSign Extended Validation CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G3
Certificate serial number339c47b220644dd395ed0818

VirusTotal report

16 of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the appupdui_03.exe file. That's a 22% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
AVG FileRepMalware [PUP]
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_80% (D)
eGambit Unsafe.AI_Score_99%
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
FireEye Generic.mg.d26410a0f6abb08e
Ikarus Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Adload
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
K7GW Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
McAfee Artemis!D26410A0F6AB
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!Trojan
Microsoft TrojanDownloader:Win32/Adload.DL!bit
Rising Downloader.Adload!8.D1 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Symantec ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
Webroot W32.Adware.Gen
16 of the 72 anti-virus programs detected the appupdui_03.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "kernel32",
        "api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1",
        "api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1",
        "api-ms-win-appmodel-runtime-l1-1-1",
        "api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0",
        "ext-ms-win-kernel32-package-current-l1-1-0"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ca74ab1a30c50fff29ebdc689b8b33ee3607f36a96623ba3fada9d6fbf2ecfad.bin",
        "process_name": "ca74ab1a30c50fff29ebdc689b8b33ee3607f36a96623ba3fada9d6fbf2ecfad.bin",
        "pid": 1268,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32",
                "api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1",
                "api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1",
                "api-ms-win-appmodel-runtime-l1-1-1",
                "api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0",
                "ext-ms-win-kernel32-package-current-l1-1-0"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1561863189.6719,
        "ppid": 2780
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1561863189.3281,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "D:\\\u00e5\u008e\u00bb\u00e7\u00a7\u0080\u00e7\u00bd\u0091\u00e7\u00bb\u009c\\VS\\FreeAppMod\\Bin\\upd.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "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": ".gfids",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The file contains an unknown PE resource name possibly indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "DATA",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 10,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Foreign language identified in PE resource",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "name": "DATA",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013a500",
                "filetype": "Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00002b7b"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x00129b50",
                "filetype": "dBase III DBT, version number 0, next free block index 40",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00010828"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x00129b50",
                "filetype": "dBase III DBT, version number 0, next free block index 40",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00010828"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_MENU",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013a390",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000050"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_DIALOG",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013a3f0",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x0000010c"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_STRING",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013d330",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x0000002c"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ACCELERATOR",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013a3e0",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000010"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013a378",
                "filetype": "MS Windows icon resource - 1 icon, 128x128",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000014"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013a378",
                "filetype": "MS Windows icon resource - 1 icon, 128x128",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000014"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_VERSION",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0013d080",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000002b0"
            }
        ],
        "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": 546,
            "time": 3.0785109996796,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3130,
            "time": 3.038516998291,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3458,
            "time": 1.0539779663086,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3786,
            "time": 3.0568549633026,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4114,
            "time": 1.5674908161163,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4442,
            "time": -0.1017701625824,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4770,
            "time": 1.1276659965515,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 11240,
            "time": 1.0756258964539,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 15432,
            "time": 3.2035989761353,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "d0bbd4d268d0bb4db119882b68a9241ec50b12cf450cf2edcd5926c96f0ef77d",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "92d1d24fe5ff3184a8d9c008d3fbeaf3237a5855cd17fcb59d4541279c1ee779",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

appupdui_03.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove appupdui_03.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the appupdui_03.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that appupdui_03.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 appupdui_03.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the appupdui_03.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 appupdui_03.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\appupdui_03.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the appupdui_03.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If appupdui_03.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If appupdui_03.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If appupdui_03.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 appupdui_03.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
MD5d26410a0f6abb08e900f7ee3b07d298a
SHA256ca74ab1a30c50fff29ebdc689b8b33ee3607f36a96623ba3fada9d6fbf2ecfad

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to appupdui_03.exe:

appupdui_03.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

appupdui_03.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.

????-???? has stopped working.

End Program - appupdui_03.exe. This program is not responding.

appupdui_03.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

appupdui_03.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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