What is stan.exe?

stan.exe is developed by B-Space Company according to the stan.exe version information.

stan.exe's description is "Spacegag"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on stan.exe:

PropertyValue
Company nameB-Space Company
File descriptionSpacegag
Original filenamegagspace.exe
Legal copyright© B-Space ompany. All rights reserved.
Product version2.5.0.0
File version2.5.4.0

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

Company nameB-Space Company
File descriptionSpacegag
Original filenamegagspace.exe
Legal copyright© B-Space ompany. All rights reserv..
Product version2.5.0.0
File version2.5.4.0

Digital signatures [?]

stan.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

33 of the 65 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the stan.exe file. That's a 51% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Gen:Trojan.Heur.mq0@Ivh4Pcmi
Arcabit Trojan.Heur.E41B52
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
Avira TR/Crypt.ZPACK.Gen2
BitDefender Gen:Trojan.Heur.mq0@Ivh4Pcmi
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_90% (W)
Cybereason malicious.fe6fe7
Emsisoft Gen:Trojan.Heur.mq0@Ivh4Pcmi (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Generik.KFAQNAO
Fortinet W32/Generik.KFAQNAO!tr
GData Gen:Trojan.Heur.mq0@Ivh4Pcmi
Ikarus Trojan.Win32.Dynamer
Invincea heuristic
Kaspersky UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic
Malwarebytes Trojan.Injector
MAX malware (ai score=100)
McAfee RDN/Generic.dx
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.PWSZbot.cc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Tiggre!plock
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Trojan.Heur.mq0@Ivh4Pcmi
Paloalto generic.ml
SentinelOne static engine - malicious
Symantec ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Crypt.Pabz
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00C519
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Injector.200704.AAO
Webroot W32.Trojan.TR.Crypt.ZPACK.Gen2
ZoneAlarm UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic
33 of the 65 anti-virus programs detected the stan.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
    ],
    "file_read": [
        "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
    ],
    "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": 1602028385.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\d74b8ec0e92d26677f2b14d947725e094abde998d0e1329b0b882872182c0d1e.bin",
        "process_name": "d74b8ec0e92d26677f2b14d947725e094abde998d0e1329b0b882872182c0d1e.bin",
        "pid": 2460,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
            ],
            "file_read": [
                "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\ntdll.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1602028385.75,
        "ppid": 2308
    }
]

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": "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": 2460,
                        "region_size": 3158016,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x02040000"
                    },
                    "time": 1602028408.375,
                    "tid": 2888,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2460,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 16
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.680836571536803,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0002b000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00005000",
                    "entropy": 7.680836571536803,
                    "name": ".data",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0002ac9c"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.8958333333333334,
                "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"
    }
]

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": 3.1266560554504395,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.188344955444336,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.0344350337982178,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.0100059509277344,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.079803943634033,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5187928676605225,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.08524298667907715,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.5318970680236816,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0448789596557617,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.1283838748931885,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "4bca94b17182b6cec369739e9a369c5c5f1e08351633184a6749da490d6c36b9",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "7dfd0c2577b09c5e0ac9231108929176b582436376978b6b09ac28f1e975be93",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

stan.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove stan.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the stan.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that stan.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 stan.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the stan.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 stan.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\stan.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the stan.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If stan.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If stan.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If stan.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 stan.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
MD5451b12bfe6fe7d120fca748acbaa1793
SHA256d74b8ec0e92d26677f2b14d947725e094abde998d0e1329b0b882872182c0d1e

Error Messages

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

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

stan.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.

Spacegag has stopped working.

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

stan.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

What will you do with stan.exe?

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with stan.exe. 100% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 1 user.

Votes
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0
Remove100 %
1

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with stan.exe. Only 1 user has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

Comments

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