What is poten3.exe?

poten3.exe is digitally signed by Rainnd Inc.

poten3.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected poten3.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on poten3.exe:

Property	Value
Legal copyright	Copyright (C) 2013
Product version	1, 0, 0, 1
File version	1, 0, 0, 1

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

Legal copyright	Copyright (C) 2013
Product version	1, 0, 0, 1
File version	1, 0, 0, 1

Digital signatures [?]

poten3.exe has a valid digital signature.

Property	Value
Signer name	Rainnd Inc
Certificate issuer name	Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
Certificate serial number	277fb6ab1157a64b

VirusTotal report

52 of the 74 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the poten3.exe file. That's a 70% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Graftor.308479
AhnLab-V3	PUP/Win32.CloverPlus.C616307
Alibaba	Backdoor:Win32/Runagry.486f6c35
Antiy-AVL	GrayWare[AdWare]/Win32.CloverPlus
Arcabit	Trojan.Graftor.D4B4FF
Avast	Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
AVG	Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
Avira	TR/Agent.hbyk
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Graftor.308479
Bkav	W32.HfsAdware.AFAE
Comodo	ApplicUnwnt@#3fq5z4t1qvb0u
Cybereason	malicious.53c0fe
Cylance	Unsafe
DrWeb	Trojan.DownLoader26.7072
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.Graftor.308479 (B)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Adware.CloverPlus.AB
F-Secure	Trojan.TR/Agent.hbyk
FireEye	Generic.mg.ee2635053c0febf9
Fortinet	Riskware/CloverPlus
GData	Gen:Variant.Graftor.308479
Ikarus	not-a-virus:AdWare.CloverPlus
Invincea	heuristic
Jiangmin	TrojanDownloader.Generic.auvy
K7AntiVirus	Adware ( 004c4e741 )
K7GW	Adware ( 004c4e741 )
Kaspersky	Backdoor.Win32.Runagry.vph
Malwarebytes	Adware.Clover
MAX	malware (ai score=100)
MaxSecure	Trojan.Malware.10217478.susgen
McAfee	GenericRXAL-GM!EE2635053C0F
McAfee-GW-Edition	GenericRXAL-GM!EE2635053C0F
Microsoft	PUA:Win32/Kuping
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Graftor.308479
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Dwn.ehfnat
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360	Win32/Backdoor.1b4
Sophos	Generic PUA BB (PUA)
SUPERAntiSpyware	Adware.CloverPlus/Variant
Symantec	ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
Tencent	Win32.Backdoor.Runagry.Alik
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R035C0PBE19
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R035C0PBE19
VBA32	BScope.Backdoor.Agent
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Cloverplus.224352.D
Webroot	W32.Rogue.Gen
Yandex	Backdoor.Runagry!cpczY/ImJr8
Zillya	Backdoor.RunagryCRTD.Win32.6074
ZoneAlarm	Backdoor.Win32.Runagry.vph
Zoner	Trojan.Win32.47922

52 of the 74 anti-virus programs detected the poten3.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Dropped

[
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "6571639d2dae9ccc4154e0dbefdff2131db42892",
        "name": "8adff607ad3dd6d1_mbtivuninstall.exe",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Windows MBT Icons\\MBTIVuninstall.exe",
        "type": "PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows",
        "sha256": "8adff607ad3dd6d13f23aaccb9bcada41b085dc19f8385a8bf2b44b62314a83b",
        "urls": [
            "http:\/\/ocsp.godaddy.com\/0",
            "http:\/\/ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\/tss-ca-g2.crl0(",
            "http:\/\/ocsp.godaddy.com\/02",
            "http:\/\/ocsp.godaddy.com\/05",
            "http:\/\/crl.thawte.com\/ThawteTimestampingCA.crl0",
            "http:\/\/certs.godaddy.com\/repository\/1301",
            "http:\/\/c.networkadex.com\/i.php?bid=%BID",
            "http:\/\/certificates.godaddy.com\/repository\/gdig2.crt0",
            "http:\/\/crl.godaddy.com\/gdroot-g2.crl0F",
            "http:\/\/ocsp.thawte.com0",
            "http:\/\/certificates.godaddy.com\/repository\/0",
            "http:\/\/ts-aia.ws.symantec.com\/tss-ca-g2.cer0",
            "http:\/\/crl.godaddy.com\/gdig2s5-2.crl0",
            "http:\/\/www.mbticons.com\/0",
            "https:\/\/certs.godaddy.com\/repository\/0",
            "http:\/\/crl.godaddy.com\/gdroot.crl0F",
            "http:\/\/ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com07"
        ],
        "crc32": "9B929E72",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/1078\/files\/8adff607ad3dd6d1_mbtivuninstall.exe",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 105568,
        "sha512": "02b40ba5deca6b57f70c6b60a7511e62db1e60ea1358a20c4fa207373c7cd93d5c9a2e4d91469a1e371eb487322863b0a452f37ea7bf8ce843c0b5e6cde635cc",
        "pids": [
            2308
        ],
        "md5": "d41fd4b0b9b99ed735466d1739222568"
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "Armadillo v1.71",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The file contains an unknown PE resource name possibly indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "CU",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 8,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Foreign language identified in PE resource",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "name": "CU",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x0001ac78",
                "filetype": "PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00019c60"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x0001a370",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000002e8"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x0001a370",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000002e8"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_DIALOG",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x0001a680",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000000dc"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_STRING",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x000348d8",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000036"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x0001a658",
                "filetype": "MS Windows icon resource - 2 icons, 32x32, 2 colors",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000022"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_VERSION",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x0001a760",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000002cc"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_MANIFEST",
                "language": "LANG_KOREAN",
                "offset": "0x0001aa30",
                "filetype": "XML 1.0 document, ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_KOREAN",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000244"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "origin_langid"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Drops an executable to the user AppData folder",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "file",
                "ioc": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Windows MBT Icons\\MBTIVuninstall.exe",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "exe_appdata"
    }
]

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": 6.2537178993225,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
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            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3462,
            "time": 5.2330241203308,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3782,
            "time": 4.1737260818481,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4110,
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            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
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        {
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            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4438,
            "time": 4.6977469921112,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
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            "time": 3.0623121261597,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
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        {
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            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
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            "sport": 55880
        },
        {
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            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 5422,
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            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
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            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
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            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
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            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
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            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
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    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "8e866f4c9e0e173d4750cc75f718be3ae7169adf1faf161ea4b4103ec8950d97",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "e09ac885e7b2c6707fcccefdeae44a682073d7982ae6d01c926a7ab6aa593172",
    "irc": [],
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}

Screenshots

poten3.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove poten3.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the poten3.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that poten3.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.
When the scan is finished, locate poten3.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the poten3.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 poten3.exe in the scan result.

c:\downloads\poten3.exe
Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the poten3.exe file.
Restart your computer.
Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If poten3.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If poten3.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
If poten3.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
Restart your computer.
Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that poten3.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

Free Questionnaires

Hashes [?]

Property	Value
MD5	ee2635053c0febf99ceecc489ad303e2
SHA256	e1893c3a7e552ebb2c4776c413628ddab47507500b3e6398b68007d29564cbdd

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to poten3.exe:

poten3.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

poten3.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.

poten3.exe has stopped working.

End Program - poten3.exe. This program is not responding.

poten3.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

poten3.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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