What is hen.exe?

hen.exe is part of DatabaseidFinding and developed by VSO Software SARL according to the hen.exe version information.

hen.exe's description is "Wife Unmanaged Inefficiency Little Multifrequency"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on hen.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameDatabaseidFinding
Company nameVSO Software SARL
File descriptionWife Unmanaged Inefficiency Little Multifrequency
Internal nameDatabaseidFinding
CommentsWife Unmanaged Inefficiency Little Multifrequency
Legal copyrightCopyright ©VSO Software SARL 1999 - 2014
Legal trademarkCopyright ©VSO Software SARL 1999 - 2014
Product version8.3.1.7

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

Product nameDatabaseidFinding
Company nameVSO Software SARL
File descriptionWife Unmanaged Inefficiency Little M..
Internal nameDatabaseidFinding
CommentsWife Unmanaged Inefficiency Little M..
Legal copyrightCopyright ©VSO Software SARL 1999 -..
Legal trademarkCopyright ©VSO Software SARL 1999 -..
Product version8.3.1.7

Digital signatures [?]

hen.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

35 of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the hen.exe file. That's a 49% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.32032559
AegisLab Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Malware/Win32.Generic.C3279666
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.32032559
APEX Malicious
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1E8C72F
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.32032559
Comodo Malware@#3ttfs9wnphesa
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
eGambit Unsafe.AI_Score_72%
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.32032559 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/GenKryptik.DJUY
FireEye Generic.mg.50cab85e9ef3f9ad
Fortinet W32/Yakes.BBQJ!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.32032559
Ikarus Trojan-Spy.Remcos
Kaspersky Trojan.Win32.Yakes.yrui
McAfee Artemis!50CAB85E9EF3
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.A!MTB
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.32032559
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/CI.A
Rising Trojan.GenKryptik!8.AA55 (CLOUD)
Sophos Troj/Agent-BBQJ
Symantec Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Yakes.Svhq
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R061C0RF419
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R061C0RF419
VBA32 BScope.Trojan.Propagate
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Remcos.1094656
ZoneAlarm Trojan.Win32.Yakes.yrui
35 of the 72 anti-virus programs detected the hen.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Dropped

[
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "b24e06cbe3c56ec5946df44c36d7849565b751c9",
        "name": "89507a57f19d0c35_6814720",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\6814720",
        "type": "ISO-8859 text, with very long lines, with no line terminators",
        "sha256": "fcbedb770d4a170fd6e3d7c31cb457790cdc646001a18226e9cb82bbb6d34807",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "65C679F4",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/882\/files\/89507a57f19d0c35_6814720",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 134229127,
        "sha512": "89eb343868df10b21947fb49d9f4e91cddbb10981de8edea0a873cfc6e8101c17daad4b5936a83e55e86cb3fafa68c0fbac825318a9c3a3a7c716ef4751711ac",
        "pids": [
            2816
        ],
        "md5": "dbd296ffbf0f2b2421b2edc6047e7882"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1562579587.5781,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The file contains an unknown PE resource name possibly indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "AFX",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "RCDATA",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.3477359779274,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00041400",
                    "virtual_address": "0x000c7000",
                    "entropy": 7.3477359779274,
                    "name": ".rsrc",
                    "virtual_size": "0x00041364"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.24438202247191,
                "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": 6.2360641956329,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5990,
            "time": 12.235619068146,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7834,
            "time": 6.1937620639801,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8162,
            "time": 4.1910791397095,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8490,
            "time": 6.2055239677429,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8818,
            "time": 4.7953660488129,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 9146,
            "time": 3.0578451156616,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 9474,
            "time": 4.7665681838989,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28884,
            "time": 4.2427799701691,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 37268,
            "time": 6.2814540863037,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "c60d904aec94dc347bb66e6ef0e9bb781fa0f66d9c139698bd7cbdee8812e1ac",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "d21cfbe2cffd9dd8d5f44d7537fb9785b81c5c03bc99e80236a6d70a2a58216c",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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hen.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove hen.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the hen.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that hen.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 hen.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the hen.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 hen.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\hen.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the hen.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If hen.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If hen.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If hen.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 hen.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
MD550cab85e9ef3f9ad22bf20f2b34272af
SHA2568b19ad944ba380d5889c43ec754cf3c549cf499a204e5b1816247f7bcfebe96d

Error Messages

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

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

hen.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.

Wife Unmanaged Inefficiency Little Multifrequency has stopped working.

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

hen.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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