What is francis.exe?

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

francis.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

francis.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

44 of the 70 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the francis.exe file. That's a 63% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Dropped:Trojan.GenericKD.41286169
AegisLab Trojan.Win32.Agent.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Malware/Win32.RL_Generic.R271033
Alibaba TrojanPSW:Win32/Injector.23ff6ad9
APEX Malicious
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D275FA19
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira TR/Injector.sasbr
BitDefender Dropped:Trojan.GenericKD.41286169
Bkav HW32.Packed.
CAT-QuickHeal TrojanPWS.Agent
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_60% (W)
Cybereason malicious.66327b
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.KWSR-5368
DrWeb Trojan.PWS.Stealer.26217
Emsisoft Dropped:Trojan.GenericKD.41286169 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Injector.EFKH
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Injector.sasbr
FireEye Generic.mg.95ae32497571e516
Fortinet W32/Injector.EFKH!tr
GData Win32.Trojan-Stealer.FormBook.4YY6YY
Ikarus Trojan.Win32.Injector
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0054e1071 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0054e1071 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan-PSW.Win32.Agent.gen
Malwarebytes Trojan.Injector
McAfee Artemis!95AE32497571
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.fc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
MicroWorld-eScan Dropped:Trojan.GenericKD.41286169
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.PSW.dee
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Trojan.Gen.MBT
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R061C0PEH19
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R061C0PEH19
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Injector.371263
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan-PSW.Win32.Agent.gen
44 of the 70 anti-virus programs detected the francis.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Dropped

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    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "1b37b02d1668e93365b71df842c195f1e0621de3",
        "name": "7b1de2d2d9f404a2_jambiya",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Jambiya",
        "type": "data",
        "sha256": "7b1de2d2d9f404a224fe38f9a357026ea805964b3a1a5988e817baf42b56c6fe",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "A6463442",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/7b1de2d2d9f404a2_jambiya",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 283972,
        "sha512": "1840fbc4e9f1a676bb9080bf4c17af37a60cf281ba90ae4c7eb019bec8bac98002ec25a5cd99288b3c7fc20d6331137f5e032d7b2e865401a202a2ab3eada559",
        "pids": [
            2420
        ],
        "md5": "af31d1821e777bbaf950f2419f80145c"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "0e7b780f1eeeee0ecf60ea1a4528b6554edc37cb",
        "name": "eb1e6dc11e5a9619_pliancy.dll",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pliancy.dll",
        "type": "PE32 executable (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows",
        "sha256": "eb1e6dc11e5a9619e1dc2cf403eff0a9b49fb6d52de281e93061ae27b2a1d41a",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "596C4843",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/eb1e6dc11e5a9619_pliancy.dll",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 48640,
        "sha512": "a6d384ca392f34f893f7ff9eb4f3d390fae1a63fe17bffdaef4e38284f24fcb9c738ae4ddf9a4535952a7fd1bc4c772d173ed32d0e2847a0bff4dcc9d9ff4b4c",
        "pids": [
            2420
        ],
        "md5": "0e5c975fb6cbd4569b494b2d92a585f7"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "d6d205922e61635472efb13c2bb92c9ac6cb96da",
        "name": "a1390a78533c47e5_system.dll",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\nss5C6E.tmp\\System.dll",
        "type": "PE32 executable (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows",
        "sha256": "a1390a78533c47e55cc364e97af431117126d04a7faed49390210ea3e89dd0e1",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "BF2283F5",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/a1390a78533c47e5_system.dll",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 11776,
        "sha512": "2cb596971e504eaf1ce8e3f09719ebfb3f6234cea5ca7b0d33ec7500832ff4b97ec2bbe15a1fbf7e6a5b02c59db824092b9562cd8991f4d027feab6fd3177b06",
        "pids": [
            2420
        ],
        "md5": "fbe295e5a1acfbd0a6271898f885fe6a"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709",
        "name": "e3b0c44298fc1c14_nsg59BC.tmp",
        "type": "empty",
        "sha256": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "00000000",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/e3b0c44298fc1c14_nsg59BC.tmp",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 0,
        "sha512": "cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e",
        "md5": "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "2cfa88760a28a54bbbbfb2cf90f6a670a8b24899",
        "name": "fb211ca16725f640_apppackagebadgelogo.scale-200_contrast-black.png",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\AppPackageBadgeLogo.scale-200_contrast-black.png",
        "type": "PNG image data, 48 x 48, 8-bit gray+alpha, non-interlaced",
        "sha256": "fb211ca16725f640fc2e7454304f2c4da34edb3483d3065ea8c08758828ba9e7",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "119CEB28",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/fb211ca16725f640_apppackagebadgelogo.scale-200_contrast-black.png",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 368,
        "sha512": "062fc914c7a8858a9914d0cb0af10c5b4a9db133fe809379bd8482cc71ddd2c0cd982a6e9ae9a0cbc8744255f98008d3c520422495518a90de1d986a716cab77",
        "pids": [
            2420
        ],
        "md5": "3e0604d1e8a71923a7c1712f4e4d641f"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "57e7c9d467be041cc39f9d130ba1e1264097d85b",
        "name": "92e19da3ddf09c4e_getstartedapplist.targetsize-96.png",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\GetStartedAppList.targetsize-96.png",
        "type": "PNG image data, 96 x 96, 8-bit\/color RGBA, non-interlaced",
        "sha256": "92e19da3ddf09c4eeb41f75ba6c4d5a471e2b75c354ed50a70f8b3c582440920",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "F8868B61",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/92e19da3ddf09c4e_getstartedapplist.targetsize-96.png",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 1065,
        "sha512": "5916d6a5e2594abbc2b9cdcc06443709fefbdf2810b278f04356c7df9c03637b09c0e2a37f319c3f3ec0ef9f96a323992e015b316b7dfb88a07560620c628272",
        "pids": [
            2420
        ],
        "md5": "5867d059510b9734ad85ac456d606b05"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "f87052218f4fa6243a7d7003d0a18cab2b276e99",
        "name": "365d34865aa44269_idpehlog.cfg",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\idpehlog.cfg",
        "type": "ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators",
        "sha256": "365d34865aa4426970398053ec5776b5a28e5c6243b2cbb90ebccbb6369696e0",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "77CF8C93",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/365d34865aa44269_idpehlog.cfg",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 214,
        "sha512": "194cd881330fb6de0c9d888a9d1e688572e705570c9d99788ee81af0e1a6ffeb60676a5be696da9a648ce0305e93f8501ccf0dc6059d9619587495b2dada0e5d",
        "pids": [
            2420
        ],
        "md5": "74917f75f93d48bb05b48b5cfa185e88"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "5ac37640ab7df78850a056c46c9b06ee01886957",
        "name": "12d096c6eb263956_win.ini",
        "filepath": "C:\\Windows\\win.ini",
        "type": "ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators",
        "sha256": "12d096c6eb2639566ab370acb22e35e134ef2943ac8daa487441e860465454cc",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "2E83B992",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1744\/files\/12d096c6eb263956_win.ini",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 442,
        "sha512": "ccb124cadd58702311350b7ad2943928632297020b53359e4f1f96a74bf6ba14713dc55ce302e7d7406df6a426c1f57623b963737f88db23ac815676defaadc8",
        "pids": [
            2420
        ],
        "md5": "d314ec73df25ee3a0485fdb39fc2c780"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1565686391.3438,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".ndata",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Drops an executable to the user AppData folder",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "file",
                "ioc": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pliancy.dll",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "file",
                "ioc": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\nss5C6E.tmp\\System.dll",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "exe_appdata"
    }
]

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": 3.0783979892731,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5874,
            "time": 9.0775940418243,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7718,
            "time": 3.0114989280701,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8046,
            "time": 1.0156168937683,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8374,
            "time": 3.0187408924103,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8702,
            "time": 1.5175139904022,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 9030,
            "time": -0.093591928482056,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 9358,
            "time": 114.31789588928,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55880
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 9678,
            "time": 1.1016910076141,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 29088,
            "time": 1.0489029884338,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 37472,
            "time": 3.1248278617859,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "e7592489870ace04f08c3e3c73c678eb7fa29c503ccfe3952bd56a1bbaa3817e",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "2ec81a5d0a6c0eca59e812a53837a4788fdc96941362c21fda759bb51e291c12",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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francis.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove francis.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the francis.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that francis.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 francis.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the francis.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 francis.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\francis.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the francis.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If francis.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If francis.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If francis.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 francis.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
MD595ae32497571e516217e6b54c2d18d02
SHA256f5e50b4686cda5ede3e129d764b93e0418993d4e7bb2a654b7c38c5d253c292f

Error Messages

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

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

francis.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.

francis.exe has stopped working.

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

francis.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with francis.exe. 100% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 1 user.

Votes
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NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with francis.exe. Only 1 user has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

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