What is cega.exe?

cega.exe is part of menuitis7 and developed by botchedly6 according to the cega.exe version information.

cega.exe's description is "estruses"

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

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

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on cega.exe:

PropertyValue
Product namemenuitis7
Company namebotchedly6
File descriptionestruses
Internal nameCROWMAN
Original filenameCROWMAN.exe
CommentsCONVENTED
Legal copyrightUNREFULGENTLY
Legal trademarkwritation5
Product version1.06.0008
File version1.06.0008

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

Product namemenuitis7
Company namebotchedly6
File descriptionestruses
Internal nameCROWMAN
Original filenameCROWMAN.exe
CommentsCONVENTED
Legal copyrightUNREFULGENTLY
Legal trademarkwritation5
Product version1.06.0008
File version1.06.0008

Digital signatures [?]

The verification of cega.exe's digital signature failed.

PropertyValue
Signer nameLoops quantum
Certificate issuer nameLoops quantum
Certificate serial number01

VirusTotal report

46 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the cega.exe file. That's a 65% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Midie.62753
AegisLab Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Win-Trojan/VBMalpack.Gen
Alibaba PUA:Application/Generic.6d92f7d7
ALYac Gen:Variant.Midie.62753
Arcabit Trojan.Midie.DF521
Avast Win32:DangerousSig [Trj]
AVG Win32:DangerousSig [Trj]
Avira TR/Injector.fdyem
BitDefender Gen:Variant.Midie.62753
ClamAV Win.Malware.Generic-6952576-0
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason malicious.87cf30
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/VBInject.VE.gen!Eldorado
DrWeb Trojan.PWS.Siggen2.12195
Emsisoft Gen:Variant.Midie.62753 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Injector.EFAM
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Injector.fdyem
FireEye Generic.mg.2cd68471d47e855f
Fortinet W32/GenKryptik.DGEZ!tr
GData Gen:Variant.Midie.62753
Ikarus Trojan.Crypt.Malcert
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0054c9f01 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0054c9f01 )
Kaspersky Backdoor.Win32.NetWiredRC.fxa
McAfee Fareit-FOQ!2CD68471D47E
McAfee-GW-Edition Fareit-FOQ!2CD68471D47E
Microsoft VirTool:Win32/VBInject.BAV!bit
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Midie.62753
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM03.0.C43D.Malware.Gen
Rising Backdoor.NetWiredRC!8.2AF (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/FareitVB-N
Symantec Trojan.Gen.MBT
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R020C0RDN19
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R020C0RDN19
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Midie.536808
Yandex Trojan.Injector!MIpxwCm/JwA
ZoneAlarm Backdoor.Win32.NetWiredRC.fxa
46 of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the cega.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": [
        "NETAPI32.DLL",
        "dwmapi.dll",
        "kernel32",
        "SXS.DLL",
        "ntdll",
        "CRYPT32.DLL",
        "SHELL32.DLL",
        "KERNEL32.dll",
        "msvcrt.dll",
        "user32",
        "GDI32.dll",
        "shell32",
        "ADVAPI32.DLL",
        "WS2_32.dll",
        "USER32.dll",
        "OLEAUT32.DLL"
    ],
    "command_line": [
        "\u0001C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\354d5c3d15e9ec08b6e5ef19d8a7d03ef84163980f522f5dcd7d06873683517a.bin\" "
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VBA\\Monitors",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\crypt32"
    ],
    "resolves_host": [
        "89.35.228.227"
    ],
    "connects_ip": [
        "89.35.228.227"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_949.NLS",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_932.NLS",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_950.NLS",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_936.NLS"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\936",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\932",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\949",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\950",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\services\\crypt32\\DebugHeapFlags"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\354d5c3d15e9ec08b6e5ef19d8a7d03ef84163980f522f5dcd7d06873683517a.bin",
        "process_name": "354d5c3d15e9ec08b6e5ef19d8a7d03ef84163980f522f5dcd7d06873683517a.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "command_line": [
                "\u0001C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\354d5c3d15e9ec08b6e5ef19d8a7d03ef84163980f522f5dcd7d06873683517a.bin\" "
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_949.NLS",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_932.NLS",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_950.NLS",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_936.NLS"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VBA\\Monitors"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\932",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\949",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\950",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\936"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32",
                "SXS.DLL",
                "ntdll",
                "user32",
                "OLEAUT32.DLL",
                "shell32",
                "dwmapi.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1575748385.65625,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1575748385.328125,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\354d5c3d15e9ec08b6e5ef19d8a7d03ef84163980f522f5dcd7d06873683517a.bin",
        "process_name": "354d5c3d15e9ec08b6e5ef19d8a7d03ef84163980f522f5dcd7d06873683517a.bin",
        "pid": 2860,
        "summary": {
            "connects_ip": [
                "89.35.228.227"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\crypt32"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\services\\crypt32\\DebugHeapFlags"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "NETAPI32.DLL",
                "kernel32",
                "ntdll",
                "CRYPT32.DLL",
                "SHELL32.DLL",
                "KERNEL32.dll",
                "msvcrt.dll",
                "user32",
                "GDI32.dll",
                "shell32",
                "ADVAPI32.DLL",
                "WS2_32.dll",
                "USER32.dll"
            ],
            "resolves_host": [
                "89.35.228.227"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1575748401.874876,
        "ppid": 2816
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 6,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
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                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "region_size": 28672,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x00490000"
                    },
                    "time": 1575748385.82825,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 173
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "region_size": 67108864,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x035c0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1575748401.71925,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 225
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 876544,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x77ba0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1575748401.73425,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 282
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2860,
                        "region_size": 28672,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x003f0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1575748401.936876,
                    "tid": 2492,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2860,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 4
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2860,
                        "region_size": 67108864,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x02520000"
                    },
                    "time": 1575748418.014876,
                    "tid": 2492,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2860,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 112
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2860,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 876544,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x77ba0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1575748418.014876,
                    "tid": 2492,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2860,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 169
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Changes read-write memory protection to read-execute (probably to avoid detection when setting all RWX flags at the same time)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 1,
                        "length": 24576,
                        "protection": 32,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x003b0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1575748385.78125,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READ"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 18
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "protection_rx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.413398640839596,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0007e000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00001000",
                    "entropy": 7.413398640839596,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0007d01c"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.9767441860465116,
                "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": 546,
            "time": 3.1158177852630615,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.202921867370605,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.0341508388519287,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.0306448936462402,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.079474925994873,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5359728336334229,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.09538912773132324,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.547001838684082,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0631189346313477,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.1560778617858887,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "aba742f3bce664ea741258d359148944441673c72bb2fb8c931cbf4882f7f4a6",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "ed36abd9a4cd2739d0d6478443e077431720b6103915d81a0b0b55e0bf63cf28",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

cega.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove cega.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the cega.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that cega.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 cega.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the cega.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 cega.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\cega.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the cega.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If cega.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If cega.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If cega.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 cega.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
MD52cd68471d47e855fe48cdf15fde3eebb
SHA256354d5c3d15e9ec08b6e5ef19d8a7d03ef84163980f522f5dcd7d06873683517a

Error Messages

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

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

cega.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.

estruses has stopped working.

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

cega.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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