What is servicehost.exe?

servicehost.exe is part of McAfee WebAdvisor and developed by McAfee, LLC according to the servicehost.exe version information.

servicehost.exe's description is "McAfee WebAdvisor"

servicehost.exe is digitally signed by McAfee, LLC.

servicehost.exe is usually located in the 'c:\program files\mcafee\webadvisor\' folder.

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on servicehost.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameMcAfee WebAdvisor
Company nameMcAfee, LLC
File descriptionMcAfee WebAdvisor
Internal nameServiceHost Module
Original filenameServiceHost.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2020 McAfee, LLC
Product version4,1,1,0
File version4,1,1,84

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

Product nameMcAfee WebAdvisor
Company nameMcAfee, LLC
File descriptionMcAfee WebAdvisor
Internal nameServiceHost Module
Original filenameServiceHost.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2020 McAfee, LLC
Product version4,1,1,0
File version4,1,1,84

Digital signatures [?]

servicehost.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameMcAfee, LLC
Certificate issuer nameGlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G3
Certificate serial number30aa59dd718cfbde163ab821

VirusTotal report

2 of the 73 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the servicehost.exe file. That's a 3% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.Detplock
FireEye Gen:Variant.Fugrafa.17643
2 of the 73 anti-virus programs detected the servicehost.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "file_created": [
        "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin\\log_000200460031001F.txt"
    ],
    "directory_created": [
        "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee",
        "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor",
        "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "kernel32",
        "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
        "WINSTA.dll",
        "WTSAPI32.dll",
        "RPCRT4.dll",
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "rpcrt4.dll"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor"
    ],
    "file_written": [
        "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin\\log_000200460031001F.txt"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Rpc\\MaxRpcSize",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\SystemSetupInProgress",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\SQMClient\\Windows\\CEIPEnable",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\OOBEInProgress",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\ComputerName\\ActiveComputerName\\ComputerName"
    ]
}

Dropped

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    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "b315717344bca0be06d60361649bf6b907c40597",
        "name": "442e97cc7d61f35e_log_000200460031001f.txt",
        "filepath": "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin\\log_000200460031001F.txt",
        "type": "ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators",
        "sha256": "442e97cc7d61f35ee3acf7953f2222cd228055b71f51620490cba7a29b6aabaa",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "2751B156",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/6144\/files\/442e97cc7d61f35e_log_000200460031001f.txt",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 88,
        "sha512": "c494a59c8d1361c2344129d6c3a570879600fb5c0c92df08a9ac7f6573a41f5774ba2a82540331049ff72c31c18ded59ad57d7ee3d7eae4a6ef50c4d93c2bde0",
        "pids": [
            1512
        ],
        "md5": "72183681b7233eba4639ec39a07d2bae"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin",
        "process_name": "516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin",
        "pid": 1512,
        "summary": {
            "file_created": [
                "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin\\log_000200460031001F.txt"
            ],
            "directory_created": [
                "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee",
                "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor",
                "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32",
                "API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll",
                "WINSTA.dll",
                "WTSAPI32.dll",
                "RPCRT4.dll",
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "rpcrt4.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor"
            ],
            "file_written": [
                "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin\\log_000200460031001F.txt"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Rpc\\MaxRpcSize",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\SystemSetupInProgress",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\SQMClient\\Windows\\CEIPEnable",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Setup\\OOBEInProgress",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\ComputerName\\ActiveComputerName\\ComputerName"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1584413585.65625,
        "ppid": 2892
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1584413585.46875,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "C:\\tfsagent\\_work\\1\\s\\build\\x64\\Release\\ServiceHost.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Checks amount of memory in system, this can be used to detect virtual machines that have a low amount of memory available",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "GlobalMemoryStatusEx",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {},
                    "time": 1584413156.300519,
                    "tid": 2732,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 1512,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 77
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antivm_memory_available"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "_RDATA",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Attempts to identify installed AV products by installation directory",
        "severity": 3,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "file",
                "ioc": "C:\\ProgramData\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor\\516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f.bin\\log_000200460031001F.txt",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antiav_detectfile"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Attempts to identify installed AV products by registry key",
        "severity": 3,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "registry",
                "ioc": "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\McAfee\\WebAdvisor",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antiav_detectreg"
    }
]

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": 6.273210048675537,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5342,
            "time": 12.303283929824829,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7186,
            "time": 6.136075973510742,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7514,
            "time": 4.1306140422821045,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7842,
            "time": 6.210653066635132,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8170,
            "time": 4.7504448890686035,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8498,
            "time": 3.01469087600708,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8826,
            "time": 4.663886070251465,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28236,
            "time": 4.151511907577515,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36620,
            "time": 6.274945020675659,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "a02fa53583c369cf55340300cb4e7281655924cf67a5a8fc26f8ab3a3fef632c",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "1bbd48953559dfa56241590f5b9c61d1d9ffc6de4511d279976733a8c3d75915",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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servicehost.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove servicehost.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the servicehost.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that servicehost.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 servicehost.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the servicehost.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 servicehost.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\program files\mcafee\webadvisor\servicehost.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the servicehost.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If servicehost.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If servicehost.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If servicehost.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 servicehost.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD50e0e4bc473150690dbf502288f006740
SHA256516785b26b1a5e7d4a1905558f111d4aeba12bc6ffebe873ba38546c8b75066f

Error Messages

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

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

servicehost.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.

McAfee WebAdvisor has stopped working.

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

servicehost.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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