What is nierserver.exe?

nierserver.exe is part of NIER_SERVER and developed by National Instruments Corporation according to the nierserver.exe version information.

nierserver.exe's description is "NI Error Reporting Server"

nierserver.exe is digitally signed by National Instruments Corporation.

nierserver.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\Shared\NI Error Reporting\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about nierserver.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on nierserver.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameNIER_SERVER
Company nameNational Instruments Corporation
File descriptionNI Error Reporting Server
Internal nameNIER_SERVER 18.1.0f2
Original filenamenierserver.exe
Comments2018/07/26 12:20:38, nierserver/win32U/i386/msvc-14.0/release
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2000-2018 National Instruments Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Product version18.1.0f2
File version18.1.0f2

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

Product nameNIER_SERVER
Company nameNational Instruments Corporation
File descriptionNI Error Reporting Server
Internal nameNIER_SERVER 18.1.0f2
Original filenamenierserver.exe
Comments2018/07/26 12:20:38, nierserver/win3..
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2000-2018 National Inst..
Product version18.1.0f2
File version18.1.0f2

Digital signatures [?]

nierserver.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameNational Instruments Corporation
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number61c3329855f6476cfcb4fcf359e55909

VirusTotal report

None of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the nierserver.exe file.

None of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the nierserver.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1563112389.4531,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

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Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

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    "udp": [
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            "src": "192.168.56.101",
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}

Screenshots

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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD57195fdc80be73062dc9b569ce9de7ee0
SHA256625df97ceeed28ea9c765e791dfc5fae714d5b9875ae53527b31ea9362d88c03

Error Messages

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

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

nierserver.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.

NI Error Reporting Server has stopped working.

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

nierserver.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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