What is laubin.exe?

laubin.exe is part of DictionaryEditor Application according to the laubin.exe version information.

laubin.exe's description is "DictionaryEditor MFC Application"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on laubin.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameDictionaryEditor Application
File descriptionDictionaryEditor MFC Application
Internal nameDictionaryEditor
Original filenameDictionaryEditor.EXE
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2001
Product version1, 0, 0, 1
File version1, 0, 0, 1

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

Product nameDictionaryEditor Application
File descriptionDictionaryEditor MFC Application
Internal nameDictionaryEditor
Original filenameDictionaryEditor.EXE
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2001
Product version1, 0, 0, 1
File version1, 0, 0, 1

Digital signatures [?]

laubin.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

40 of the 66 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the laubin.exe file. That's a 61% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.31895785
AegisLab Trojan.Win32.Formbook.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.Formbook.C3167346
Alibaba Trojan:Win32/Formbook.25a111f7
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.31895785
Antiy-AVL GrayWare/Win32.Puwaders
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1E6B0E9
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.31895785
ClamAV Win.Trojan.Agent-6947488-0
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cyren W32/Trojan.VKCK-8867
DrWeb Trojan.PWS.Stealer.26105
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.31895785 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 Win32/Formbook.AA
FireEye Generic.mg.e92402489cb1ef7e
Fortinet W32/Formbook.AA!tr
GData Win32.Trojan-Stealer.FormBook.Y4J7EE
Ikarus Trojan.Win32.Formbook
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0052ebf91 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0052ebf91 )
MAX malware (ai score=94)
McAfee RDN/Generic.dx
McAfee-GW-Edition RDN/Generic.dx
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.31895785
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Stealer.fpgxin
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Generic Malware
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM07.1.9698.Malware.Gen
Rising Trojan.Formbook!8.F858 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Malicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Generic.Ajlc
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro-HouseCall TrojanSpy.Win32.FORMBOOK.THDBBAI
40 of the 66 anti-virus programs detected the laubin.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\\System32\\mspaint.exe",
        "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
    ],
    "file_read": [
        "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\crypt32"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\services\\crypt32\\DebugHeapFlags"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "Crypt32.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\263c62f012943e2fc3978f5f82b2c02f14ad5310e8273687b020486b2ba155be.bin",
        "process_name": "263c62f012943e2fc3978f5f82b2c02f14ad5310e8273687b020486b2ba155be.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\mspaint.exe",
                "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
            ],
            "file_read": [
                "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\crypt32"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\services\\crypt32\\DebugHeapFlags"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "Crypt32.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1577062385.703125,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1577062385.34375,
        "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": ".titan",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "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": "The file contains an unknown PE resource name possibly indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "None",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 20480,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x00442000"
                    },
                    "time": 1577062385.813125,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 23
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "region_size": 3158016,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x02590000"
                    },
                    "time": 1577062409.766125,
                    "tid": 2272,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 77
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    }
]

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": 3.1264641284942627,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.219434022903442,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.033724069595337,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.042099952697754,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.0793111324310303,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5508599281311035,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.09774899482727051,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.5469391345977783,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.063148021697998,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.140777111053467,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "a153e2d3a0ef660cf5c7a1d99faffe95725c2dccc35309c487f693d3be3755c4",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "d6619a632517de1af6f911bf3ba373fd42b3a7b808be8e2c5af0076b6a19a995",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandboxScreenshot from the sandboxScreenshot from the sandbox

laubin.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove laubin.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the laubin.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that laubin.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 laubin.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the laubin.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 laubin.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\laubin.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the laubin.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If laubin.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If laubin.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If laubin.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 laubin.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
MD5e92402489cb1ef7e396163fa75e32177
SHA256263c62f012943e2fc3978f5f82b2c02f14ad5310e8273687b020486b2ba155be

Error Messages

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

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

laubin.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.

DictionaryEditor MFC Application has stopped working.

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

laubin.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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