What is tsef.exe?

tsef.exe is developed by GXS Feet according to the tsef.exe version information.

tsef.exe's description is "Human Plain"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on tsef.exe:

PropertyValue
Company nameGXS Feet
File descriptionHuman Plain
Internal nameHuman Plain
Original filenameSettletable.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2018 GXS Feet. All rights reserved.
Product version13, 4, 2985, 9766
File version13, 4, 2985, 9766

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

Company nameGXS Feet
File descriptionHuman Plain
Internal nameHuman Plain
Original filenameSettletable.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2018 GXS Feet. All righ..
Product version13, 4, 2985, 9766
File version13, 4, 2985, 9766

Digital signatures [?]

tsef.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

43 of the 65 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the tsef.exe file. That's a 66% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.30542318
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.Cu.C2458641
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.30542318
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1D209EE
Avast Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp]
AVG Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp]
Avira TR/Wigon.P
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.30542318
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.IGENERIC
Comodo Malware@#24ii1nfkujrwe
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_60% (W)
Cybereason malicious.b8d192
Cyren W32/Cutwail.BGDQ-0793
DrWeb BackDoor.Bulknet.739
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.30542318 (B)
ESET-NOD32 Win32/Wigon.PR
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Wigon.P
Fortinet W32/Wigon.PR!tr
GData Win32.Trojan-Dropper.Cutwail.TQ4YQG
Ikarus Trojan.SuspectCRC
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0052ce3f1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0052ce3f1 )
Kaspersky Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Cutwail.wbp
McAfee Generic.ayp
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Emotet.hm
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.A!bit
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.30542318
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Cutwail.fakiww
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/WLT.D
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.Downloader.d76
Rising Downloader.Cutwail!8.670 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Malicious PE
Sophos Troj/Emogen-ER
Tencent Win32.Trojan-downloader.Cutwail.Dyqo
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_CUTWAIL.USWC
VBA32 BScope.Trojan.Razy
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Agent.549120
Yandex Trojan.DL.Cutwail!c4U9vR9BFWM
Zillya Downloader.Cutwail.Win32.270
ZoneAlarm Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Cutwail.wbp
Zoner Trojan.Win32.67698
43 of the 65 anti-virus programs detected the tsef.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": "ee0510ab307ba02f2cb63461e3727ea02c59bdb2",
        "name": "34d21c8832b5c0b3_c5d8393293ce2ba62f117b2c2d55bc3e_cb9d2ec8-77ae-49e5-9fec-16d9ea7fa00c",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Crypto\\RSA\\S-1-5-21-699399860-4089948139-3198924279-1001\\c5d8393293ce2ba62f117b2c2d55bc3e_cb9d2ec8-77ae-49e5-9fec-16d9ea7fa00c",
        "type": "data",
        "sha256": "34d21c8832b5c0b310da9b0d51bdf61080a491f286e29d410b986a7768dbef62",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "09D02FF1",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/8860\/files\/34d21c8832b5c0b3_c5d8393293ce2ba62f117b2c2d55bc3e_cb9d2ec8-77ae-49e5-9fec-16d9ea7fa00c",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 1446,
        "sha512": "e07098641730d0b0790ccfff59b00d387f79f9ee0c994c79d118f7479a22657f841529520e475e519afa8b9fdc0ec915ee2bd4fc370fa9fc6cfba716286461e4",
        "pids": [
            2800
        ],
        "md5": "abd9ef60d792b3c142a35d9b55e02a51"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1597143187.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "c:\\road\\king\\Add\\Speak\\Word\\Populate\\picture\\UsSlow.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "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": ".gfids",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The file contains an unknown PE resource name possibly indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "ORGANS",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "SAY",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "SECOND",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    }
]

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": 3.126312017440796,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 108258,
            "time": 15.579231977462769,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 110102,
            "time": 3.034048080444336,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 110430,
            "time": 1.0128819942474365,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 110758,
            "time": 3.078933000564575,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 111086,
            "time": 1.518996000289917,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 111414,
            "time": -0.09752082824707031,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 111742,
            "time": 60.91230010986328,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55880
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 112062,
            "time": 1.5317950248718262,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 131472,
            "time": 1.044175148010254,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 139856,
            "time": 3.1280391216278076,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "db4d187dfef1234bf26a442c04d7118e898c83fd4a8017f71d57fd83fa9f6205",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "c9beea942b1c018ed81203f65330295734b6d3c1829b4aebde6285b5e4e54120",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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tsef.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove tsef.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the tsef.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that tsef.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 tsef.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the tsef.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 tsef.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\tsef.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the tsef.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If tsef.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If tsef.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If tsef.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 tsef.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
Please select the option that best describe your thoughts on the removal instructions given above








Free Questionnaires

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD51876f6eb8d192d1fef07590880141e52
SHA256f5cdba93d6708c64a9ddf46e89fd35a8b14ec8b39d91da44beeb3f8c23f8f3ac

Error Messages

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

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

tsef.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.

Human Plain has stopped working.

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

tsef.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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