What is authuitu.dll?

authuitu.dll is part of AVG PC TuneUp and developed by AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. according to the authuitu.dll version information.

authuitu.dll's description is "AVG WinLogon Extension"

authuitu.dll is digitally signed by AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o..

authuitu.dll is usually located in the 'C:\Windows\system32\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about authuitu.dll.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on authuitu.dll:

PropertyValue
Product nameAVG PC TuneUp
Company nameAVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o.
File descriptionAVG WinLogon Extension
Internal nameauthuitu-x64.dll
Original filenameauthuitu-x64.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2014 AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o.
Private buildx64 Release_Unicode_MT_SLL
Product version16.80.3.38236
File version16.80.3.38236
Special buildTuneUpCompile_2019_0110_130224(234844), SVNRev 5b8bfa4bdd5afb8f640ecc3c35c0041299795c34 (release/tuneup/PCT2016-1.80), tuneup

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

Product nameAVG PC TuneUp
Company nameAVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o.
File descriptionAVG WinLogon Extension
Internal nameauthuitu-x64.dll
Original filenameauthuitu-x64.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2014 AVG Technologies ..
Private buildx64 Release_Unicode_MT_SLL
Product version16.80.3.38236
File version16.80.3.38236
Special buildTuneUpCompile_2019_0110_130224(23484..

Digital signatures [?]

authuitu.dll has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameAVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o.
Certificate issuer nameDigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA
Certificate serial number0a6eedb7ea5b35f274e88583d1285fc8

VirusTotal report

None of the 68 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the authuitu.dll file.

None of the 68 anti-virus programs detected the authuitu.dll file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "dll_loaded": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll",
        "authui.dll"
    ],
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\authui.dll",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cryptui.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\WindowsShell.Manifest"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID\\{7986d495-ce42-4926-8afc-26dfa299cadb}\\InProcServer32",
        "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID\\{00711705-12C5-420B-A4E5-6413F2AB3C7B}\\Parameters"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll.manifest"
    ],
    "command_line": [
        "\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\rundll32.exe\" C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll,DllMain"
    ],
    "file_read": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\SideBySide\\PreferExternalManifest",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\CLSID\\{7986d495-ce42-4926-8afc-26dfa299cadb}\\InProcServer32\\{00711705-12C5-420B-A4E5-6413F2AB3C7B}",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\CLSID\\{00711705-12C5-420B-A4E5-6413F2AB3C7B}\\Parameters\\AuthUiRc"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\rundll32.exe",
        "process_name": "rundll32.exe",
        "pid": 1664,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll"
            ],
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll"
            ],
            "command_line": [
                "\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\rundll32.exe\" C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll,DllMain"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll.manifest"
            ],
            "file_read": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568217185.5781,
        "ppid": 3040
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568217185.3125,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\rundll32.exe",
        "process_name": "rundll32.exe",
        "pid": 2588,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\authui.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\cryptui.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\WindowsShell.Manifest"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll.manifest"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID\\{7986d495-ce42-4926-8afc-26dfa299cadb}\\InProcServer32",
                "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID\\{00711705-12C5-420B-A4E5-6413F2AB3C7B}\\Parameters"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\SideBySide\\PreferExternalManifest",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\CLSID\\{7986d495-ce42-4926-8afc-26dfa299cadb}\\InProcServer32\\{00711705-12C5-420B-A4E5-6413F2AB3C7B}",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\CLSID\\{00711705-12C5-420B-A4E5-6413F2AB3C7B}\\Parameters\\AuthUiRc"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\73e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f.bin.dll",
                "authui.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568217185.9062,
        "ppid": 1664
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "D:\\build\\user\\234844_TUNEUP-COM0-51\\source\\build\\tuneup\\RU_MT_SLL!x64_vs140\\bin\\Release_Unicode_MT_SLL_vs140\\x64\\authuitu-x64.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    }
]

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": 3.0759100914001,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5326,
            "time": 3.0116848945618,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5654,
            "time": 1.0197460651398,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5982,
            "time": 3.0206050872803,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6310,
            "time": 1.5182371139526,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6638,
            "time": -0.091039896011353,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6966,
            "time": 1.0944790840149,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 18814,
            "time": 1.0424370765686,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 27198,
            "time": 3.1081840991974,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "58097bd04a618ca3f22a9dd09df4bdd7d26b60d9df4d5dd42762026d49337baa",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "369f9615c1a73184ce5352dfcae5114de1a8ce432ddc6756f67c2e62a5929bd6",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5936cebf61e4a48aa2693791a2b112c30
SHA25673e0628b59bc72773af060c2ae933892060ca4330cf9cdd8ce91af7f1ad86b7f

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