What is lsa64install.exe?

lsa64install.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected lsa64install.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

lsa64install.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

lsa64install.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

46 of the 68 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the lsa64install.exe file. That's a 68% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.41172686
AegisLab Trojan.Win32.Generic.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Malware/Win32.Generic.C3146315
Alibaba TrojanDownloader:Win32/GoFacebot.f02b40c8
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.41172686
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D2743ECE
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira TR/Dldr.Agent.jnykx
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.41172686
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Azden
Comodo Malware@#1h7progbafbj7
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_80% (W)
Cybereason malicious.dbc05e
Cyren W32/Trojan.FQAE-8943
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.41172686 (B)
Endgame malicious (moderate confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.EJU
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Dldr.Agent.jnykx
FireEye Generic.mg.3aa89a3dbc05eb8f
Fortinet W32/Agent.EJU!tr.dldr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.41172686
Ikarus Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan-Downloader ( 005472451 )
K7GW Trojan-Downloader ( 005472451 )
Kaspersky Trojan-Downloader.Win64.GoFacebot.a
MAX malware (ai score=100)
McAfee Artemis!3AA89A3DBC05
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.tc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Pynamer.B!ac
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.41172686
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Mlw.foxrjr
Panda Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM11.1.4457.Malware.Gen
Rising Downloader.Agent!8.B23 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Tencent Win64.Trojan-downloader.Gofacebot.Lmlc
Trapmine suspicious.low.ml.score
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R061C0GD719
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Azden.1875968
Zillya Downloader.Agent.Win32.378223
ZoneAlarm Trojan-Downloader.Win64.GoFacebot.a
46 of the 68 anti-virus programs detected the lsa64install.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\\wshqos.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\WSHTCPIP.DLL",
        "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\wship6.dll"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\TestApp"
    ],
    "file_recreated": [
        "\\Device\\KsecDD"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\Language\\InstallLanguageFallback",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\PreferredUILanguages",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\MUI\\UILanguages\\en-US\\Type",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\WMR\\Disable",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\MUI\\UILanguages\\en-US\\AlternateCodePage",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\MuiCached\\MachinePreferredUILanguages",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\EMPTY"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
        "WINSTA.dll",
        "winmm.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\advapi32.dll",
        "kernel32.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\wtsapi32.dll",
        "KERNEL32.DLL",
        "cryptbase.dll",
        "RPCRT4.dll",
        "advapi32.dll",
        "ntdll.dll",
        "ws2_32.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\812ab66561305682d00eae8f0be303d5992a0f99ef521cc5e1c3e9744e129c85.bin",
        "process_name": "812ab66561305682d00eae8f0be303d5992a0f99ef521cc5e1c3e9744e129c85.bin",
        "pid": 1776,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\wshqos.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\WSHTCPIP.DLL",
                "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\wship6.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\TestApp"
            ],
            "file_recreated": [
                "\\Device\\KsecDD"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\Language\\InstallLanguageFallback",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\PreferredUILanguages",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\MUI\\UILanguages\\en-US\\Type",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\WMR\\Disable",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\MUI\\UILanguages\\en-US\\AlternateCodePage",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\MuiCached\\MachinePreferredUILanguages",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\EMPTY"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
                "WINSTA.dll",
                "winmm.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\advapi32.dll",
                "kernel32.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\wtsapi32.dll",
                "KERNEL32.DLL",
                "cryptbase.dll",
                "RPCRT4.dll",
                "advapi32.dll",
                "ntdll.dll",
                "ws2_32.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1582537991.609125,
        "ppid": 2924
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1582537991.390375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "UPX 2.90 [LZMA] -> Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.874953187033544,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x001c9c00",
                    "virtual_address": "0x0029e000",
                    "entropy": 7.874953187033544,
                    "name": "UPX1",
                    "virtual_size": "0x001ca000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.9997269997269997,
                "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": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable is compressed using UPX",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "section": "UPX0",
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Section name indicates UPX"
            },
            {
                "section": "UPX1",
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Section name indicates UPX"
            },
            {
                "section": "UPX2",
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Section name indicates UPX"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "packer_upx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Detects the presence of Wine emulator",
        "severity": 3,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 0,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "last_error": 0,
                    "nt_status": -1073741511,
                    "api": "LdrGetProcedureAddress",
                    "return_value": 3221225785,
                    "arguments": {
                        "ordinal": 0,
                        "module": "ntdll",
                        "module_address": "0x77b90000",
                        "function_address": "0x0018fe54",
                        "function_name": "wine_get_version"
                    },
                    "time": 1582537991.703125,
                    "tid": 1608,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 1776,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 47
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antiemu_wine"
    }
]

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": 6.135896921157837,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5442,
            "time": 6.066962003707886,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5770,
            "time": 4.14860200881958,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6098,
            "time": 6.076434850692749,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6426,
            "time": 4.65498685836792,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6754,
            "time": 2.9695498943328857,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 7082,
            "time": 4.6784539222717285,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 16880,
            "time": 4.180137872695923,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 25264,
            "time": 6.199045896530151,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "05e8b3ef9d7490a5b6591b6f1e5c36fc28b62024a9ecf78dd7b9cbaa4986248a",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "9358cc7316b50e08ab14ae8d18e655d25087beadcddc960079cb3df698cd8138",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

lsa64install.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove lsa64install.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the lsa64install.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that lsa64install.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 lsa64install.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the lsa64install.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 lsa64install.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\lsa64install.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the lsa64install.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If lsa64install.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If lsa64install.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If lsa64install.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 lsa64install.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
MD53aa89a3dbc05eb8f8f4ab96499e34ae1
SHA256812ab66561305682d00eae8f0be303d5992a0f99ef521cc5e1c3e9744e129c85

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to lsa64install.exe:

lsa64install.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

lsa64install.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.

lsa64install.exe has stopped working.

End Program - lsa64install.exe. This program is not responding.

lsa64install.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

lsa64install.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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