What is lsa64install_in.exe?

lsa64install_in.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected lsa64install_in.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

lsa64install_in.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

lsa64install_in.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

44 of the 69 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the lsa64install_in.exe file. That's a 64% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.41206033
AegisLab Trojan.Win32.Windigo.4!c
Alibaba TrojanDownloader:Win32/Generic.9d9b0fcf
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.41206033
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D274C111
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira TR/Dldr.Agent.owcre
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.41206033
CAT-QuickHeal Trojandownloader.Windigo
Cybereason malicious.34bc00
Cyren W32/Trojan.UZVI-0081
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.41206033 (B)
Endgame malicious (moderate confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.EJU
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Dldr.Agent.owcre
FireEye Generic.mg.16163c934bc00ff0
Fortinet W32/Windigo.D!tr.dldr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.41206033
Ikarus Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent
Invincea heuristic
Jiangmin TrojanDownloader.Windigo.a
K7AntiVirus Trojan-Downloader ( 005472451 )
K7GW Trojan-Downloader ( 005472451 )
Kaspersky Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Windigo.d
Malwarebytes Trojan.Downloader
MAX malware (ai score=94)
MaxSecure Trojan.Malware.74249203.susgen
McAfee Artemis!16163C934BC0
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Sdbot.tc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Dynamer!rfn
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.41206033
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Windigo.fpfslt
Panda Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM11.1.95B9.Malware.Gen
Rising Downloader.Agent!8.B23 (CLOUD)
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Trojan Horse
Tencent Win32.Trojan-downloader.Agent.Dvpu
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R03FC0WDH19
VBA32 TrojanDownloader.Windigo
Yandex Trojan.DL.Windigo!
ZoneAlarm Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Windigo.d
44 of the 69 anti-virus programs detected the lsa64install_in.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\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Terminal Server\\TSUserEnabled",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\PreferredUILanguages",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\MUI\\UILanguages\\en-US\\Type",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Terminal Server\\TSAppCompat",
        "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",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\ntdll.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\winmm.dll",
        "WINSTA.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\advapi32.dll",
        "kernel32.dll",
        "gdi32.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\ws2_32.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\wtsapi32.dll",
        "KERNEL32.DLL",
        "cryptbase.dll",
        "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "RPCRT4.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1577044385.359375,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\f9f4636363e45a600dba5a578c20be2ce2e2fe04800fe3efb9e7d18c85ab841d.bin",
        "process_name": "f9f4636363e45a600dba5a578c20be2ce2e2fe04800fe3efb9e7d18c85ab841d.bin",
        "pid": 2660,
        "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\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Terminal Server\\TSUserEnabled",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\PreferredUILanguages",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\MUI\\UILanguages\\en-US\\Type",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Terminal Server\\TSAppCompat",
                "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",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\ntdll.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\winmm.dll",
                "WINSTA.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\advapi32.dll",
                "kernel32.dll",
                "gdi32.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\ws2_32.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\wtsapi32.dll",
                "KERNEL32.DLL",
                "cryptbase.dll",
                "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "RPCRT4.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1577044385.625,
        "ppid": 1624
    }
]

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": 7.875074636940873,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x001ca000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x0029f000",
                    "entropy": 7.875074636940873,
                    "name": "UPX1",
                    "virtual_size": "0x001ca000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.9997271487039563,
                "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": "0x0018fe3d",
                        "function_name": "wine_get_version"
                    },
                    "time": 1577044385.75,
                    "tid": 2308,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2660,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 88
            }
        ],
        "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": 546,
            "time": 3.0781381130218506,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2018,
            "time": 3.0237200260162354,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2346,
            "time": 1.0342650413513184,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2674,
            "time": 3.036032199859619,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3002,
            "time": 1.5350492000579834,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3330,
            "time": -0.09214997291564941,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3658,
            "time": 1.6250112056732178,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6986,
            "time": 1.0677990913391113,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 11178,
            "time": 3.1093671321868896,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "1afb219b96bb3e9ce5d03cc802a919affef5413263c03c49d434ac36e4f34fdf",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "4e616f92f22dc65e557d58024bbc221cef7c971c70c7c57f1e0bbb62fb250be9",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

lsa64install_in.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove lsa64install_in.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the lsa64install_in.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that lsa64install_in.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_in.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the lsa64install_in.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_in.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\lsa64install_in.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the lsa64install_in.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If lsa64install_in.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If lsa64install_in.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If lsa64install_in.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_in.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
MD516163c934bc00ff0e5d25f8a39586c8a
SHA256f9f4636363e45a600dba5a578c20be2ce2e2fe04800fe3efb9e7d18c85ab841d

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to lsa64install_in.exe:

lsa64install_in.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

lsa64install_in.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_in.exe has stopped working.

End Program - lsa64install_in.exe. This program is not responding.

lsa64install_in.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

lsa64install_in.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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