What is atc.sys?

atc.sys is part of Bitdefender® ATC and developed by Bitdefender S.R.L. Bucharest, ROMANIA according to the atc.sys version information.

atc.sys's description is "Bitdefender Active Threat Control Filesystem Minifilter"

atc.sys is digitally signed by Bitdefender SRL.

atc.sys is usually located in the 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about atc.sys.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on atc.sys:

PropertyValue
Product nameBitdefender® ATC
Company nameBitdefender S.R.L. Bucharest, ROMANIA
File descriptionBitdefender Active Threat Control Filesystem Minifilter
Internal nameATC.SYS
Original filenameATC.SYS
Legal copyright© Bitdefender S.R.L. All rights reserved.
Product version13
File version1.29.249.0 0xe1f0813

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

Product nameBitdefender® ATC
Company nameBitdefender S.R.L. Bucharest, ROMANIA
File descriptionBitdefender Active Threat Control Fi..
Internal nameATC.SYS
Original filenameATC.SYS
Legal copyright© Bitdefender S.R.L. All rights res..
Product version13
File version1.29.249.0 0xe1f0813

Digital signatures [?]

atc.sys has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameBitdefender SRL
Certificate issuer nameDigiCert Assured ID Code Signing CA-1
Certificate serial number0d539ce22c8990bd091f22aea32a5123

VirusTotal report

None of the 70 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the atc.sys file.

None of the 70 anti-virus programs detected the atc.sys file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

ERROR: Failed to execute process.

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1584521585.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "D:\\Bamboo\\home\\xml-data\\build-dir\\ATC-DEFAULT-SOURCES\\bin\\x64\\Release\\atc\\atc.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "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": "PAGE",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "INIT",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    }
]

Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

{
    "tls": [],
    "udp": [
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 866,
            "time": 1.033447027206421,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 1194,
            "time": 1.6813790798187256,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 1522,
            "time": -0.09469389915466309,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 1850,
            "time": 1.6095659732818604,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 2942,
            "time": 1.0544390678405762,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "6a64cee709a64b8ba7716b75f570df71af89f3fdfe53416a1631362d4fa56177",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "ebad66871f968e16a27c72753dfdc0ad839e4a4701e210abf1819df99bb5231c",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5cc23182afcfa6a6f469d37cb62af278c
SHA25616550f127e20b9a74ed37642faac4b6e1b11221fee87c3f595dce032cc663b68

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