What is apprelrons.exe?

apprelrons.exe is usually located in the 'c:\programdata\apprelrons\' folder.

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

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VirusTotal report

50 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the apprelrons.exe file. That's a 70% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Acronis	suspicious
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Ulise.99198
AegisLab	Adware.Win32.Linkury.2!c
Alibaba	AdWare:Win32/Linkury.0f472e40
ALYac	Gen:Variant.Ulise.99198
Antiy-AVL	GrayWare[AdWare]/Win32.Linkury
APEX	Malicious
Arcabit	Trojan.Ulise.D1837E
Avast	Win32:AdwareX-gen [Adw]
AVG	Win32:AdwareX-gen [Adw]
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Ulise.99198
BitDefenderTheta	Gen:NN.ZexaF.34090.evW@am3WzLei
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_80% (D)
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/Application.RIJD-1298
DrWeb	Trojan.Siggen7.63815
eGambit	Unsafe.AI_Score_99%
Emsisoft	Application.Generic (A)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Linkury.BS potentially unwanted
FireEye	Generic.mg.1d47525dc28f7ffb
Fortinet	Adware/Linkury
GData	Gen:Variant.Ulise.99198
Invincea	heuristic
Jiangmin	AdWare.Linkury.ciwj
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 0055d5751 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 0055d5751 )
Kaspersky	not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Linkury.ptd
Malwarebytes	Adware.Linkury
MAX	malware (ai score=84)
MaxSecure	Trojan.Malware.74831730.susgen
McAfee	GenericRXAA-AA!1D47525DC28F
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.MultiPlug.tm
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Ulise.99198
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Linkury.hagipn
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	Generic/Trojan.528
Rising	Trojan.Occamy!8.F1CD (CLOUD)
Sangfor	Malware
SentinelOne	DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos	Generic PUA BC (PUA)
Tencent	Win32.Adware.Linkury.Dzkh
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro	Trojan.Win32.MALREP.THBACBO
TrendMicro-HouseCall	Trojan.Win32.MALREP.THBACBO
VBA32	Adware.Linkury
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Webroot	W32.Adware.Installcore
ZoneAlarm	not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Linkury.ptd

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "file_failed": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\InstallationConfiguration.xml",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\installer.dat"
    ],
    "file_created": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\InstallationConfiguration.xml",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\installer.dat"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "SHELL32.dll",
        "KERNEL32.dll",
        "SHLWAPI.dll"
    ],
    "file_written": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\InstallationConfiguration.xml",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\installer.dat"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ]
}

Dropped

[
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "4805fc5e61a618e6b620b8cc27e62ab7289313f0",
        "name": "37c47c9ab50d8652_installer.dat",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\installer.dat",
        "type": "data",
        "sha256": "37c47c9ab50d86521bd5081f987ebeb8d36e20a5147145e039cb2ffe4ace5857",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "B24B132A",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/5459\/files\/37c47c9ab50d8652_installer.dat",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 142336,
        "sha512": "1dfb20a05ae502223fa75fdb8d781cf743006f74949b28906fd8c3e75fd6b8b57d24ceb58e701abd9d41c3537d7d11f9b4214eee5febe903b8f721cb6849cc42",
        "pids": [
            2816
        ],
        "md5": "b0225f501b274f8daa38548df9e74a9c"
    },
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "9cdda77f8e0d911879206faedb86e7a1677903f7",
        "name": "bfd1f2535e895ec6_installationconfiguration.xml",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\InstallationConfiguration.xml",
        "type": "ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators",
        "sha256": "bfd1f2535e895ec648369323c70d950caa2394a336c7c8af8c9f1f52aef2bcf7",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "C1ADDBB0",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/5459\/files\/bfd1f2535e895ec6_installationconfiguration.xml",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 11904,
        "sha512": "51c2ffc5183ffbe7e6fd74a792286f68eb9255d5eebeafcbbc65e044035d731a9cfd7c9344bf0c3a33a8eb9c0532766c6d2989dd27672b61013349ecaaf05d0c",
        "pids": [
            2816
        ],
        "md5": "60321b86de93557b206ff9d02cb5ad4a"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c2011134efe9dfc29c28ba8ee2c0da55663ac5f50be5f13d7d8c9502f7e317e0.bin",
        "process_name": "c2011134efe9dfc29c28ba8ee2c0da55663ac5f50be5f13d7d8c9502f7e317e0.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "file_failed": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\InstallationConfiguration.xml",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\installer.dat"
            ],
            "file_created": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\InstallationConfiguration.xml",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\installer.dat"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "SHELL32.dll",
                "KERNEL32.dll",
                "SHLWAPI.dll"
            ],
            "file_written": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\InstallationConfiguration.xml",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\installer.dat"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1581940385.875,
        "ppid": 2308
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1581940385.578125,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Changes read-write memory protection to read-execute (probably to avoid detection when setting all RWX flags at the same time)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2816,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 1,
                        "length": 331776,
                        "protection": 32,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x02311000"
                    },
                    "time": 1581940386.11,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READ"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 215
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "protection_rx"
    }
]

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": 6.201053142547607,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3246,
            "time": 6.163051128387451,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3574,
            "time": 4.133337020874023,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3902,
            "time": 6.174782037734985,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4230,
            "time": 4.651201963424683,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4558,
            "time": 3.0250041484832764,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4886,
            "time": 4.702627182006836,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 9362,
            "time": 4.154279947280884,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 13554,
            "time": 6.2324981689453125,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "86ef8ac38ae45c9e576d0095cafa556b3027b9afbfa59fb92052dab8634a42c2",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "f272cfd0c7cd3269bdab99636f0e8c8d48b46a396bb9ba3b12df730ddd6b82e1",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

apprelrons.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove apprelrons.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the apprelrons.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that apprelrons.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.

   
3. When the scan is finished, locate apprelrons.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the apprelrons.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 apprelrons.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   c:\programdata\apprelrons\apprelrons.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the apprelrons.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If apprelrons.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If apprelrons.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If apprelrons.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 apprelrons.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

Filename variants

apprelrons.exe may also use other filenames. The most common variants are listed below:

• snorler.exe

Folder name variants

apprelrons.exe may also be located in other folders than c:\programdata\apprelrons\. The most common variants are listed below:

• c:\programdata\snorler\

Error Messages

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