What is hdpbsss.exe?

hdpbsss.exe is part of Packard Bell Software Suite Service 1 and developed by Packard Bell Services according to the hdpbsss.exe version information.

hdpbsss.exe's description is "Packard Bell Software Suite Service 1"

hdpbsss.exe is digitally signed by Packard Bell Services.

hdpbsss.exe is usually located in the 'c:\program files (x86)\acer\software suite\powersave\' folder.

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on hdpbsss.exe:

PropertyValue
Product namePackard Bell Software Suite Service 1
Company namePackard Bell Services
File descriptionPackard Bell Software Suite Service 1
Original filenameHDPBSSS.exe
Legal copyright2008, Packard Bell Services
Product version1.0.0.4
File version1.0.0.5

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

Product namePackard Bell Software Suite Service 1
Company namePackard Bell Services
File descriptionPackard Bell Software Suite Service 1
Original filenameHDPBSSS.exe
Legal copyright2008, Packard Bell Services
Product version1.0.0.4
File version1.0.0.5

Digital signatures [?]

hdpbsss.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer namePackard Bell Services
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA
Certificate serial number45b641f7aca1b12f7c9cfd60ea42eb99

VirusTotal report

None of the 67 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the hdpbsss.exe file.

None of the 67 anti-virus programs detected the hdpbsss.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Rpc",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Ole",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Rpc",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales"
    ],
    "directory_enumerated": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\msxml2.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\msxml4.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\msxml3.dll"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "dwmapi.dll",
        "rpcrt4.dll",
        "WS2_32.DLL"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\OLE\\MaximumAllowedAllocationSize",
        "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\\Microsoft\\Rpc\\MaxRpcSize",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\OOBEInProgress",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\ComputerName\\ActiveComputerName\\ComputerName"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\9813f9427c7d45a3ec7d3be7514c8345c72179d295754c42ab37122e55271bb0.bin",
        "process_name": "9813f9427c7d45a3ec7d3be7514c8345c72179d295754c42ab37122e55271bb0.bin",
        "pid": 2420,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\Rpc",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Ole",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Rpc",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales"
            ],
            "directory_enumerated": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\msxml2.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\msxml4.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\msxml3.dll"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "dwmapi.dll",
                "rpcrt4.dll",
                "WS2_32.DLL"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\OLE\\MaximumAllowedAllocationSize",
                "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\\Microsoft\\Rpc\\MaxRpcSize",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\OOBEInProgress",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\ComputerName\\ActiveComputerName\\ComputerName"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1574553186.890625,
        "ppid": 1268
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1574553186.59375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Queries for the computername",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "misc",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "GetComputerNameA",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {
                        "computer_name": "CUCKPC"
                    },
                    "time": 1574553186.999625,
                    "tid": 2460,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2420,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 303
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "misc",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "GetComputerNameW",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {
                        "computer_name": "CUCKPC"
                    },
                    "time": 1574553186.999625,
                    "tid": 2460,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2420,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 304
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antivm_queries_computername"
    },
    {
        "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": 1574553186.999625,
                    "tid": 2588,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2420,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 283
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antivm_memory_available"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "CODE",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "DATA",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "BSS",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2420,
                        "region_size": 4096,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x00610000"
                    },
                    "time": 1574553186.983625,
                    "tid": 2460,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2420,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 170
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.779427157213214,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00022a00",
                    "virtual_address": "0x000b2000",
                    "entropy": 7.779427157213214,
                    "name": "DATA",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0002289c"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            }
        ],
        "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": 6.214676141738892,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3246,
            "time": 6.174845218658447,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3574,
            "time": 4.157876014709473,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3902,
            "time": 6.186343193054199,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4230,
            "time": 4.7956202030181885,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4558,
            "time": 3.0488080978393555,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4886,
            "time": 4.746399164199829,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 9362,
            "time": 4.2011191844940186,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 13554,
            "time": 6.277086019515991,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "d3cb8c47791b93c685eccd0ec443556ac7ee594ec9a1087f9e0b446f6a4108a0",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "780333adf938cf15d8a6be464856a844ece67f1c3f2c841c4b4c6a216186aa19",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5811938292d5184b6ee8eb90cfbba201e
SHA2569813f9427c7d45a3ec7d3be7514c8345c72179d295754c42ab37122e55271bb0

Error Messages

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

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

hdpbsss.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.

Packard Bell Software Suite Service 1 has stopped working.

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

hdpbsss.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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