What is winlogs.exe?

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on winlogs.exe:

PropertyValue
Internal namehayek.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2018, coroci
Product version6.1.2.6
File version6.1.2.6

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

Internal namehayek.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2018, coroci
Product version6.1.2.6
File version6.1.2.6

Digital signatures [?]

winlogs.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

48 of the 66 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the winlogs.exe file. That's a 73% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.31508050
AegisLab Trojan.Win32.Chapak.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Malware/Win32.Trojanspy.C3044912
Alibaba Trojan:Any/UnSafe.a
ALYac Trojan.Chapak.A
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.Chapak
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1E0C652
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira TR/Crypt.Agent.tcyvy
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.31508050
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Fuerboos
ClamAV Win.Packed.Gandcrab-6846115-0
Comodo TrojWare.Win32.Propagate.FA@80b9yb
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_90% (W)
Cybereason malicious.4e01bc
Cyren W32/Trojan.ZZWR-5539
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.31508050 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Kryptik.GOIU
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Crypt.Agent.tcyvy
FireEye Generic.mg.ecf21464e01bc0ad
Fortinet W32/Kryptik.GOIG!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.31508050
Ikarus Trojan-Ransom.GandCrab
Jiangmin Trojan.Chapak.arc
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0054508f1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0054508f1 )
Kaspersky Trojan.Win32.Chapak.bqso
Malwarebytes Trojan.MalPack.GS
McAfee Trojan-FPYT!ECF21464E01B
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.th
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.31508050
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Chapak.fngkpl
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.305
Rising Malware.Obscure/Heur!1.A89E (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Chapak.Apmo
Trapmine malicious.moderate.ml.score
TrendMicro-HouseCall TrojanSpy.Win32.FAREIT.SMKC.hp
VBA32 BScope.Trojan.Chapak
Yandex Trojan.Chapak!
Zillya Trojan.Chapak.Win32.57848
ZoneAlarm Trojan.Win32.Chapak.bqso
48 of the 66 anti-virus programs detected the winlogs.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "kernel32.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\5dccce9b5611781c0edee4fae015119b49ce9eb99ee779e161ec0e75c1c383da.bin",
        "process_name": "5dccce9b5611781c0edee4fae015119b49ce9eb99ee779e161ec0e75c1c383da.bin",
        "pid": 2740,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1582361584.578125,
        "ppid": 2780
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1582361584.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "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": ".mysec10",
                "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": "TIXAHAWERALUZUJICEHOWODIZO",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "WAHULEPOKIKUWUCETUMAGI",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "None",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2740,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 1,
                        "length": 905216,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x01ed0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1582361614.515125,
                    "tid": 2436,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2740,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 811627
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 7,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Foreign language identified in PE resource",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "name": "TIXAHAWERALUZUJICEHOWODIZO",
                "language": "LANG_SERBIAN",
                "offset": "0x001692b4",
                "filetype": "ASCII text, with no line terminators",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_DEFAULT",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000070"
            },
            {
                "name": "WAHULEPOKIKUWUCETUMAGI",
                "language": "LANG_SERBIAN",
                "offset": "0x00169324",
                "filetype": "ASCII text, with no line terminators",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_DEFAULT",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000100"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_SERBIAN",
                "offset": "0x00169424",
                "filetype": "dBase IV DBT of @.DBF, block length 4096, next free block index 40, next free block 0, next used block 0",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_DEFAULT",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000010a8"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_STRING",
                "language": "LANG_SERBIAN",
                "offset": "0x0016a4cc",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_DEFAULT",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000003a0"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_SERBIAN",
                "offset": "0x0016a86c",
                "filetype": "MS Windows icon resource - 1 icon, 32x32",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_DEFAULT",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000014"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_VERSION",
                "language": "LANG_SERBIAN",
                "offset": "0x0016a880",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_DEFAULT",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000001d0"
            },
            {
                "name": "None",
                "language": "LANG_SERBIAN",
                "offset": "0x0016ae70",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_DEFAULT",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x0000000a"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "origin_langid"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Looks for the Windows Idle Time to determine the uptime",
        "severity": 3,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtQuerySystemInformation",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "information_class": 8
                    },
                    "time": 1582361584.703125,
                    "tid": 2436,
                    "flags": {
                        "information_class": "SystemProcessorPerformanceInformation"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2740,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 19
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "antisandbox_idletime"
    }
]

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": 3.0789570808410645,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.078171014785767,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.0426011085510254,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.033452033996582,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.0662171840667725,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5352721214294434,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.0921628475189209,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.6409180164337158,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0667061805725098,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.1505839824676514,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "47c31c18218a2c9174bc9d99e041c86cde7133a823e7ffdeaefeb5f32ff3dea5",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "1d97e674d9066909ef23b9fd132093b5b1a98c2d842ac8fcc10f7840fa05bec8",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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winlogs.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove winlogs.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the winlogs.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that winlogs.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 winlogs.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the winlogs.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 winlogs.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\winlogs.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the winlogs.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If winlogs.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If winlogs.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If winlogs.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 winlogs.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
MD5ecf21464e01bc0ade28b16256300c916
SHA2565dccce9b5611781c0edee4fae015119b49ce9eb99ee779e161ec0e75c1c383da

Error Messages

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

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

winlogs.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.

winlogs.exe has stopped working.

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

winlogs.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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