What is owen.exe?

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

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

Digital signatures [?]

owen.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

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

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.31749972
AhnLab-V3 Win-Trojan/Delphiless.Exp
ALYac Trojan.Agent.DQTP
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1E47754
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
Avira HEUR/AGEN.1039551
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.31749972
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cyren W32/Injector.UKDC-5761
DrWeb Trojan.Siggen8.11892
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.31749972 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Injector.EDZT
Fortinet W32/Kryptik.GLZZ!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.31749972
Ikarus Trojan.Inject
Invincea heuristic
K7GW Riskware ( 0040eff71 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan-Spy.Win32.Noon.gen
Malwarebytes Trojan.MalPack.DLF
MAX malware (ai score=84)
McAfee Trojan-FQIO!2AA0BB01C994
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Fareit.bh
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.31749972
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.Spy.9dd
Rising Trojan.Injector!1.AFE3 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne static engine - malicious
Sophos Mal/Fareit-U
Symantec Infostealer.Lokibot!16
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro-HouseCall TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.SMDD.hp
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Siggen8.726528
Webroot W32.Trojan.Gen
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan-Spy.Win32.Noon.gen
40 of the 66 anti-virus programs detected the owen.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "dwmapi.dll",
        "advapi32",
        "user32",
        "shell32"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c79d123543e37e4347ae74cf151ed05fbbfe0cb3cadccd21bd94c37065dba10e.bin",
        "process_name": "c79d123543e37e4347ae74cf151ed05fbbfe0cb3cadccd21bd94c37065dba10e.bin",
        "pid": 1268,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Delphi\\Locales",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Borland\\Locales",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Borland\\Locales"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "dwmapi.dll",
                "advapi32",
                "user32",
                "shell32"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1602067985.65625,
        "ppid": 2308
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1602067985.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "CODE",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "DATA",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "BSS",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "BobSoft Mini Delphi -> BoB \/ BobSoft",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 1268,
                        "region_size": 4096,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x003d0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1602067985.75025,
                    "tid": 2740,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 1268,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 175
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 1268,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 1,
                        "length": 24576,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x004c2000"
                    },
                    "time": 1602067994.17225,
                    "tid": 2740,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 1268,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 852
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 1268,
                        "region_size": 4096,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x005d0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1602067994.17225,
                    "tid": 2740,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 1268,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 857
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Searches running processes potentially to identify processes for sandbox evasion, code injection or memory dumping",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "Process32NextW",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_name": "SearchProtocolHost.exe",
                        "snapshot_handle": "0x000000f8",
                        "process_identifier": 2928
                    },
                    "time": 1602067994.61025,
                    "tid": 2740,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 1268,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 897
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "injection_process_search"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.1639253781828165,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00027400",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00091000",
                    "entropy": 7.1639253781828165,
                    "name": ".rsrc",
                    "virtual_size": "0x000272ec"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.22159491884262528,
                "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": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Expresses interest in specific running processes",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "process",
                "ioc": "c79d123543e37e4347ae74cf151ed05fbbfe0cb3cadccd21bd94c37065dba10e.bin",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "process_interest"
    }
]

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": 3.0784950256347656,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.079338073730469,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.0391149520874023,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.0427329540252686,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.051159143447876,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5500540733337402,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.08865785598754883,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.565190076828003,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0632350444793701,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.109445095062256,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "9bc868a3674ff507e7841d3004ffddfedcdafb9cbae6c3d295cc7280b7b50c3a",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "9923d29a316482b00c346dbbbedbcc46474307650391bf85c17f0fdb1fcac0e7",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

owen.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove owen.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the owen.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that owen.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 owen.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the owen.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 owen.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\owen.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the owen.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If owen.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If owen.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If owen.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 owen.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
MD52aa0bb01c99469d58323367b8d2c522c
SHA256c79d123543e37e4347ae74cf151ed05fbbfe0cb3cadccd21bd94c37065dba10e

Error Messages

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

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

owen.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.

owen.exe has stopped working.

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

owen.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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