What is aritss.exe?

aritss.exe is part of Firefox and developed by Mozilla Corporation according to the aritss.exe version information.

aritss.exe's description is "Firefox"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on aritss.exe:

Property	Value
Product name	Firefox
Company name	Mozilla Corporation
File description	Firefox
Internal name	aritss.exe
Original filename	aritss.exe
Comments	Firefox
Legal copyright	©Firefox and Mozilla Developers; available under the MPL 2 license.
Product version	5.7.0.4
File version	5.7.0.4

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

Product name	Firefox
Company name	Mozilla Corporation
File description	Firefox
Internal name	aritss.exe
Original filename	aritss.exe
Comments	Firefox
Legal copyright	©Firefox and Mozilla Developers; av..
Product version	5.7.0.4
File version	5.7.0.4

Digital signatures [?]

aritss.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

39 of the 65 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the aritss.exe file. That's a 60% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.30608297
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.30608297
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D1D30BA9
AVG	FileRepMalware
Avira	TR/Dropper.MSIL.eukpv
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.30608297
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.Generic
Comodo	Malware@#264rjdgdz60ti
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.8388c6
Cyren	W32/Trojan.CLMX-7906
DrWeb	Trojan.PWS.Stealer.19347
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.30608297 (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of MSIL/Kryptik.MKV
Fortinet	MSIL/Kryptik.MKV!tr
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.30608297
Invincea	heuristic
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 005263901 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 005263901 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
Malwarebytes	Spyware.AgentTesla
MAX	malware (ai score=100)
McAfee	Packed-VL!AE0DF2B8388C
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.dc
Microsoft	VirTool:MSIL/Injector
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.30608297
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Stealer.extrun
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM03.0.4661.Malware.Gen
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	W32.Golroted
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Generic.Lmun
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R002C0OJ318
VBA32	TrojanPSW.Stealer
Webroot	W32.Gen.BT
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic

39 of the 65 anti-virus programs detected the aritss.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "dll_loaded": [
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "SHLWAPI.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
        "gdi32.dll"
    ],
    "file_failed": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\255bc3343cff4663b56bd9919f6cc7e05b84988f25cc70a57968ae7b45249386.bin.config"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards\\v4.0.30319",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\AppPatch",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\v2.0",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\MSCOREE.DLL.local"
    ],
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\255bc3343cff4663b56bd9919f6cc7e05b84988f25cc70a57968ae7b45249386.bin"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\NoGuiFromShim",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\InstallRoot",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\CLRLoadLogDir",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\OnlyUseLatestCLR"
    ],
    "directory_enumerated": [
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\Upgrades.2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\mscorwks.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\255bc3343cff4663b56bd9919f6cc7e05b84988f25cc70a57968ae7b45249386.bin",
        "process_name": "255bc3343cff4663b56bd9919f6cc7e05b84988f25cc70a57968ae7b45249386.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "SHLWAPI.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
                "gdi32.dll"
            ],
            "file_failed": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\255bc3343cff4663b56bd9919f6cc7e05b84988f25cc70a57968ae7b45249386.bin.config"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards\\v4.0.30319",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\AppPatch",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\v2.0",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\MSCOREE.DLL.local"
            ],
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\255bc3343cff4663b56bd9919f6cc7e05b84988f25cc70a57968ae7b45249386.bin"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\NoGuiFromShim",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\InstallRoot",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\CLRLoadLogDir",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\OnlyUseLatestCLR"
            ],
            "directory_enumerated": [
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\Upgrades.2.0.50727\\mscoreei.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\mscorwks.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1602190386.625,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1602190386.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.8832866853640775,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0003e400",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00002000",
                    "entropy": 7.8832866853640775,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0003e234"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.97265625,
                "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": 662,
            "time": 6.22224497795105,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2134,
            "time": 6.185184955596924,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2462,
            "time": 4.164151906967163,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2790,
            "time": 6.197482109069824,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3118,
            "time": 4.661454916000366,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3446,
            "time": 3.0561959743499756,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3774,
            "time": 4.675286054611206,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8250,
            "time": 4.181768894195557,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 12442,
            "time": 6.253484010696411,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "48146405da22567bd51ba0d083acd012ce95e33981c8d22bb0050b066d0f7834",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "ca09a8832665e6e77e1e42380def8daa85da5beb7b3780afd6526398344bbdd4",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

aritss.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove aritss.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the aritss.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that aritss.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.
When the scan is finished, locate aritss.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the aritss.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 aritss.exe in the scan result.

c:\downloads\aritss.exe
Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the aritss.exe file.
Restart your computer.
Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If aritss.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If aritss.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
If aritss.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
Restart your computer.
Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that aritss.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

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Hashes [?]

Property	Value
MD5	ae0df2b8388c694fe14f8509d40d58b5
SHA256	255bc3343cff4663b56bd9919f6cc7e05b84988f25cc70a57968ae7b45249386

Error Messages

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

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

aritss.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.

Firefox has stopped working.

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

aritss.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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What is aritss.exe?

Vendor and version information [?]

Digital signatures [?]

VirusTotal report

Sandbox Report

Summary

Summary

Generic

Signatures

Yara

Network

Screenshots

aritss.exe removal instructions

Hashes [?]

Error Messages

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