Alcohol Soft - 1.7% Detection Rate *
Did you just find a download or a file on your computer that has been digitally signed by Alcohol Soft? If so, please read on.
You'll probably see Alcohol Soft when running the file. The publisher name is then displayed as the "Verified publisher" in the UAC dialog as the screenshot shows:
You can view additional details from the Alcohol Soft certificate with the following steps:
- Open Windows Explorer and locate the Alcohol Soft file
- Right-click the file and select Properties
- Click on the Digital Signatures tab
- Click on the View Certificate button
Here's a screencap of a file digitally signed by Alcohol Soft:
As you can see in the screencap above, the Windows OS states that "This digital signature is OK". This means that the file has been published by Alcohol Soft and that the file has not been tampered with.
If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above, you can view all the details of the certificate, such as when it was issued, who issued the certificate, how long it is valid, and so on. You can also view the address for Alcohol Soft, such as the street name, city and country.
VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2009-2 CA, Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA and UTN-USERFirst-Object has issued the Alcohol Soft certificates. You can also examine the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above.
Alcohol Soft Files
The following are the Alcohol Soft files I've collected, thanks to the FreeFixer users.
| Detection Ratio | File Name |
|---|---|
| 1/52 | AxAutoMntSrv.exe |
| 2/57 | axautomntsrv.exe |
| 1/50 | AxAutoMntSrv.exe |
| 3/56 | AxAHCIServiceEx.exe |
| 1/43 | Alcohol.exe |
| 3/48 | Alcohol.exe |
| 3/68 | axahciserviceex.exe |
| 1/68 | Alcohol.exe |
| 1/70 | Alcohol.exe |
| 0/38 | AxAutoMntSrv.exe |
| 0/56 | AxSCSIServiceEx.exe |
| 0/47 | axcmd.exe |
| 0/57 | axcmd.exe |
Scanner and Detection Names
Here is the detection names for the Alcohol Soft files. I have grouped the detection names by each scanner engine. Thanks to VirusTotal for the scan results.
| Scanner | Detection Names |
|---|---|
| Bkav | W32.HfsAdware.D2CF |
| CMC | Trojan.Win32.Bublik!O |
| Cylance | Unsafe |
| Emsisoft | Trojan.Generic.6222793 (B) |
| Panda | PUP/DownloadAssistant |
| Rising | Suspicious |
| TheHacker | Posible_Worm32 |
| Zillya | Adware.BrowseFox.Win32.178332 |
| nProtect | Backdoor/W32.Poison.1676128 |
* How the Detection Percentage is Calculated
The detection percentage is based on the fact that I've collected 962 scan results for the Alcohol Soft files. 16 of these scan reports came up with some sort of detection. If you like, you can review the full details of the scan reports by examining the files listed above.
Analysis Details
The analysis has been done on certificates with the following serial numbers:
- 7d7f7578cf3bef5fccbc91c0e241b86e
- 710b89285c958b2b598fa4852bc5dfff
- 43850c721abf6c9370d1bc9232868c28
- 6525c72b7600fdd99f1e0deaa4739606
- 00b070e0fc0029de07f5173e5a30d312dc