What is josh.exe?

josh.exe is part of Proxy Switcher and developed by Proxy Switcher according to the josh.exe version information.

josh.exe's description is "Proxy Switcher"

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

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

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VirusTotal report

51 of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the josh.exe file. That's a 71% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Acronis	suspicious
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.41297645
AegisLab	Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
AhnLab-V3	Win-Trojan/Delphiless.Exp
Alibaba	Backdoor:Win32/Injector.3544f84e
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.41297645
Antiy-AVL	Trojan[Backdoor]/Win32.NanoBot
APEX	Malicious
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D27626ED
Avast	Win32:Malware-gen
AVG	Win32:Malware-gen
Avira	TR/AD.Golroted.FE
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.41297645
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.Multi
Comodo	Malware@#239zeiwpywosg
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.197fd4
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/Trojan.PIKR-3832
DrWeb	Trojan.PWS.Banker1.29984
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.41297645 (B)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Injector.EFLP
F-Secure	Trojan.TR/AD.Golroted.FE
FireEye	Generic.mg.30589a16f4ad4c79
Fortinet	W32/Injector.EFLP!tr
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.41297645
Ikarus	Trojan.Inject
Invincea	heuristic
K7AntiVirus	Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
K7GW	Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:Backdoor.Win32.NanoBot.gen
Malwarebytes	Trojan.MalPack.DLF
McAfee	RDN/Generic.grp
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Fareit.dc
Microsoft	VirTool:Win32/CeeInject.ASN!bit
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.41297645
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Banker1.fqgefg
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM05.1.390F.Malware.Gen
Rising	Trojan.Injector!1.AFE3 (CLOUD)
Sophos	Mal/Fareit-Q
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Backdoor.Nanobot.Lgtk
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro	TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.SMAD.hp
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.SMAD.hp
VBA32	TScope.Trojan.Delf
Zillya	Backdoor.NanoBot.Win32.55
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Backdoor.Win32.NanoBot.gen

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "dwmapi.dll",
        "advapi32",
        "user32",
        "shell32"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\e3e8fc5df8eb3087eb3d35fb2c2f0167c3ec10120238c9941acf91d61f9b2331.bin",
        "process_name": "e3e8fc5df8eb3087eb3d35fb2c2f0167c3ec10120238c9941acf91d61f9b2331.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "dwmapi.dll",
                "advapi32",
                "user32",
                "shell32"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1565488386.7812,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1565488386.5469,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "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": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "BobSoft Mini Delphi -> BoB \/ BobSoft",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "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": 2816,
                        "region_size": 4096,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x00360000"
                    },
                    "time": 1565488386.9062,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 175
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "region_size": 4096,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x003a0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1565488397.4223,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 857
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.0542889500508,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00076400",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00074000",
                    "entropy": 7.0542889500508,
                    "name": ".rsrc",
                    "virtual_size": "0x000763d0"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.51807228915663,
                "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"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Expresses interest in specific running processes",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "process",
                "ioc": "e3e8fc5df8eb3087eb3d35fb2c2f0167c3ec10120238c9941acf91d61f9b2331.bin",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "process_interest"
    }
]

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": 3.0785958766937,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.0782060623169,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.0378069877625,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.0323860645294,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.0495181083679,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5366659164429,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.098206043243408,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.6248819828033,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0657041072845,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.1248729228973,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "8b4f2b06ab56a7c8b7c8d92edad2cbcb5d50fa77131d2b1bfb32f46937388d08",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "91a52ee99849a06c470d7eb944bb729c58c5a8caab3a46472c351db45c002f77",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

josh.exe removal instructions

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

   
3. When the scan is finished, locate josh.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the josh.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 josh.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   c:\downloads\josh.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the josh.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If josh.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If josh.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If josh.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 josh.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

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