What is gwupdater.exe?

gwupdater.exe is part of service according to the gwupdater.exe version information.

gwupdater.exe's description is "gwservice"

gwupdater.exe is digitally signed by Legendsec Information Technology (BeiJing) Inc..

gwupdater.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Gateway\SSLVPN\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about gwupdater.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on gwupdater.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameservice
File descriptiongwservice
Internal namegwservice
Original filenameservice
Legal copyrightCopyright 2016
Product version4, 0, 0, 0
File version0, 0, 1, 53

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

Product nameservice
File descriptiongwservice
Internal namegwservice
Original filenameservice
Legal copyrightCopyright 2016
Product version4, 0, 0, 0
File version0, 0, 1, 53

Digital signatures [?]

gwupdater.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameLegendsec Information Technology (BeiJing) Inc.
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number0e3248b5c645e716097a9b7ad4c8aae0

VirusTotal report

None of the 73 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the gwupdater.exe file.

None of the 73 anti-virus programs detected the gwupdater.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "file_created": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vpn.log"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "rpcrt4.dll"
    ],
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vpn.log"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\GWClient\\Debug",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Rpc",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Rpc"
    ],
    "file_written": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vpn.log"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Rpc\\MaxRpcSize",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\SystemSetupInProgress",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\SQMClient\\Windows\\CEIPEnable",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\GWClient\\Debug\\Switch",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\OOBEInProgress",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\ComputerName\\ActiveComputerName\\ComputerName"
    ]
}

Dropped

[
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "8c1079ddc4d0a2ed763bc4f1d60ac06dfa487857",
        "name": "78eb2796a1881fa0_vpn.log",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vpn.log",
        "type": "ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators",
        "sha256": "78eb2796a1881fa0fedc9580e4fd4e46942e792797f4f7b966eeb4ac10a70289",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "350BDFCA",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/7709\/files\/78eb2796a1881fa0_vpn.log",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 108,
        "sha512": "76aeac29235e0d95a2caf503824ffa1cf19a8f612e038f18ce6545cbf65947c974488ecdc6519dc76fcf60fc9d1b474b6817e6bb5bce2571d3fd3f6cb3feb2e3",
        "pids": [
            2124
        ],
        "md5": "d7f5a4e10e15b96fc8d3d8130f449de2"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\94a5428664eff33538f07c696a5a092a34dc7b07f82c064f7a68e281d55e50ad.bin",
        "process_name": "94a5428664eff33538f07c696a5a092a34dc7b07f82c064f7a68e281d55e50ad.bin",
        "pid": 2124,
        "summary": {
            "file_created": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vpn.log"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "rpcrt4.dll"
            ],
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vpn.log"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\GWClient\\Debug",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Rpc",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Rpc"
            ],
            "file_written": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\vpn.log"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Rpc\\MaxRpcSize",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\SystemSetupInProgress",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\SQMClient\\Windows\\CEIPEnable",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\GWClient\\Debug\\Switch",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\OOBEInProgress",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\ComputerName\\ActiveComputerName\\ComputerName"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1592423585.703125,
        "ppid": 2504
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1592423585.359375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Checks amount of memory in system, this can be used to detect virtual machines that have a low amount of memory available",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "GlobalMemoryStatusEx",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {},
                    "time": 1592423585.765125,
                    "tid": 2800,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2124,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 28
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antivm_memory_available"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "Armadillo v1.71",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Foreign language identified in PE resource",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "name": "RT_VERSION",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x00015060",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x0000030c"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "origin_langid"
    }
]

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": 982,
            "time": 1.1141409873962402,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 1310,
            "time": 1.6232609748840332,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 1638,
            "time": -0.04890799522399902,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 1966,
            "time": 1.618211030960083,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4178,
            "time": 1.1305088996887207,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "5c3a23d3fbc57bd95ba6fa8366bf2de46676c22134c2d0c932db80eb5bc2fb02",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "bf2eaed5768821fc7563b0d2514887398a304860a6d0d2db0645f77558e5383d",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD54e354ea2102b93907b499538ec288332
SHA25694a5428664eff33538f07c696a5a092a34dc7b07f82c064f7a68e281d55e50ad

Error Messages

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

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

gwupdater.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.

gwservice has stopped working.

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

gwupdater.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

gwupdater.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 gwupdater.exe. 100% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 1 user.

Votes
Keep0 %
0
Remove100 %
1

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