What is clientc.exe?

clientc.exe is part of Camtasia and developed by TechSmith Corporation according to the clientc.exe version information.

clientc.exe's description is "CamtasiaStudio.exe"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on clientc.exe:

Property	Value
Product name	Camtasia
Company name	TechSmith Corporation
File description	CamtasiaStudio.exe
Internal name	Crypted.exe
Original filename	Crypted.exe
Comments	TechSmith Camtasia 2018
Legal copyright	Copyright © 2011-2019 TechSmith Corporation. All rights reserved.
Legal trademark	18
Product version	0.1.31.0
File version	0.1.31.0

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

Product name	Camtasia
Company name	TechSmith Corporation
File description	CamtasiaStudio.exe
Internal name	Crypted.exe
Original filename	Crypted.exe
Comments	TechSmith Camtasia 2018
Legal copyright	Copyright © 2011-2019 TechSmith Cor..
Legal trademark	18
Product version	0.1.31.0
File version	0.1.31.0

Digital signatures [?]

clientc.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

49 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the clientc.exe file. That's a 69% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Acronis	suspicious
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Razy.412481
AhnLab-V3	Malware/Gen.Generic.C3035987
ALYac	Gen:Variant.Razy.412481
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/MSIL.Tasker
Arcabit	Trojan.Razy.D64B41
Avast	Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG	Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira	TR/Dropper.Gen
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Razy.412481
Comodo	Malware@#1tvw005krihki
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.8cf9bf
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/MSIL_Troj.PK.gen!Eldorado
DrWeb	Trojan.Siggen7.63254
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.Razy.412481 (B)
Endgame	malicious (moderate confidence)
ESET-NOD32	MSIL/Agent.BPK
F-Prot	W32/MSIL_Troj.PK.gen!Eldorado
F-Secure	Trojan.TR/Dropper.Gen
Fortinet	MSIL/GenKryptik.CQSD!tr
GData	Gen:Variant.Razy.412481
Ikarus	Trojan.MSIL.Krypt
Invincea	heuristic
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 004dcb4e1 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 004dcb4e1 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:Trojan.MSIL.Tasker.gen
Malwarebytes	Trojan.Crypt.MSIL.Generic
McAfee	RDN/Generic.dx
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.qc
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Razy.412481
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Tasker.fnisoi
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	Trojan.Generic
Rising	Dropper.Generic!8.35E (CLOUD)
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.MBT
Tencent	Msil.Trojan.Tasker.Bnn
Trapmine	suspicious.low.ml.score
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R002C0WBM19
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R002C0WBM19
VBA32	TScope.Trojan.MSIL
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Yandex	Trojan.Tasker!
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Trojan.MSIL.Tasker.gen

49 of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the clientc.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\\34d54fc11ec26dc3645995c8cad58d22976293e6af1ec3789cfab640ace146b4.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\\34d54fc11ec26dc3645995c8cad58d22976293e6af1ec3789cfab640ace146b4.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:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1604008386.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\34d54fc11ec26dc3645995c8cad58d22976293e6af1ec3789cfab640ace146b4.bin",
        "process_name": "34d54fc11ec26dc3645995c8cad58d22976293e6af1ec3789cfab640ace146b4.bin",
        "pid": 2500,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "SHLWAPI.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
                "gdi32.dll"
            ],
            "file_failed": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\34d54fc11ec26dc3645995c8cad58d22976293e6af1ec3789cfab640ace146b4.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\\34d54fc11ec26dc3645995c8cad58d22976293e6af1ec3789cfab640ace146b4.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": 1604008386.609375,
        "ppid": 1608
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.869151978941095,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0000da00",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00002000",
                    "entropy": 7.869151978941095,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0000d9d4"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.956140350877193,
                "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": 6.220831871032715,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2350,
            "time": 6.179390907287598,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2678,
            "time": 4.157063961029053,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3006,
            "time": 6.19123101234436,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3334,
            "time": 4.660184860229492,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3662,
            "time": 3.053804874420166,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3990,
            "time": 4.220813035964966,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 9368,
            "time": 4.205857992172241,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 13560,
            "time": 6.236129999160767,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "21ce05815db6eeb15006817d5534b99edf746484012032e7f66e410762705ab7",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "18f1e5e70f69775c5b512bb028e5a22abe713c086f48272fc02dd31960cbc3d0",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

clientc.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove clientc.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the clientc.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that clientc.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 clientc.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the clientc.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 clientc.exe in the scan result.

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

Free Questionnaires

Hashes [?]

Property	Value
MD5	004317b8cf9bf0a8595424977cecddd0
SHA256	34d54fc11ec26dc3645995c8cad58d22976293e6af1ec3789cfab640ace146b4

Error Messages

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

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

clientc.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.

CamtasiaStudio.exe has stopped working.

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

clientc.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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What is clientc.exe?

Vendor and version information [?]

Digital signatures [?]

VirusTotal report

Sandbox Report

Summary

Summary

Generic

Signatures

Yara

Network

Screenshots

clientc.exe removal instructions

Hashes [?]

Error Messages

What will you do with clientc.exe?

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