What is nvcontainer.exe?

nvcontainer.exe is part of NVIDIA Container and developed by NVIDIA Corporation according to the nvcontainer.exe version information.

nvcontainer.exe's description is "NVIDIA Container"

nvcontainer.exe is digitally signed by NVIDIA Corporation.

nvcontainer.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer\' folder.

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on nvcontainer.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameNVIDIA Container
Company nameNVIDIA Corporation
File descriptionNVIDIA Container
Internal nameNvContainer
Original filenameNvContainer.exe
Legal copyright(C) 2016 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.
Product versiongcomp_dev 23663209

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

Product nameNVIDIA Container
Company nameNVIDIA Corporation
File descriptionNVIDIA Container
Internal nameNvContainer
Original filenameNvContainer.exe
Legal copyright(C) 2016 NVIDIA Corporation. All rig..
Product versiongcomp_dev 23663209

Digital signatures [?]

nvcontainer.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameNVIDIA Corporation
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number14781bc862e8dc503a559346f5dcc518

VirusTotal report

None of the 69 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the nvcontainer.exe file.

None of the 69 anti-virus programs detected the nvcontainer.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568598785.3281,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\9645ca5433fb77d0e48950dd9c198b295b7e3425165ce4ca812addc4d507069e.bin",
        "process_name": "9645ca5433fb77d0e48950dd9c198b295b7e3425165ce4ca812addc4d507069e.bin",
        "pid": 2436,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568598785.5625,
        "ppid": 3040
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "C:\\dvs\\p4\\build\\sw\\gcomp\\dev\\src\\NvContainer\\_out\\x86_64\\release\\container\\NvContainer.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    }
]

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": 3.0781469345093,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3130,
            "time": 3.0386879444122,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3458,
            "time": 1.013256072998,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3786,
            "time": 3.0509679317474,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4114,
            "time": 1.5191669464111,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4442,
            "time": -0.097669839859009,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4770,
            "time": 1.0340440273285,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 12228,
            "time": 1.0343201160431,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 16420,
            "time": 3.1099059581757,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "c17a1b066387c64de5f087263aae943242b3ef0e1b9c805e747c388bd4381c07",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "17df4cb1a7a8a79b3b415172beeb5d832424d0187c62c910f89321cf0e3e8c7a",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

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TCP/UDP Listening Ports [?]

nvcontainer.exe has been reported to listen on the following TCP/UDP ports.

PortProtocol# Occurrences
49665UDP v41

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD58e1e3a26c0957de1bf6221cb98c92342
SHA2569645ca5433fb77d0e48950dd9c198b295b7e3425165ce4ca812addc4d507069e

Error Messages

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

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

nvcontainer.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.

NVIDIA Container has stopped working.

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

nvcontainer.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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