What is Electus_mBotLoader.exe?

Electus_mBotLoader.exe is usually located in the 'D:\mbot\' folder.

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

Electus_mBotLoader.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

Electus_mBotLoader.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

15 of the 70 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the Electus_mBotLoader.exe file. That's a 21% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
APEX Malicious
ClamAV Win.Trojan.Agent-6329981-0
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_90% (W)
Cybereason malicious.226935
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
FireEye Generic.mg.02d84392c5eda994
Invincea heuristic
MAX malware (ai score=93)
McAfee Artemis!02D84392C5ED
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.BadFile.vc
Panda Trj/RnkBend.A
Rising Trojan.Generic@ML.94 (RDMK:+zGh9PmV26uSsSkQWM8F+w)
SentinelOne DFI - Malicious PE
Trapmine malicious.moderate.ml.score
Webroot W32.Malware.Gen
15 of the 70 anti-virus programs detected the Electus_mBotLoader.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:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\639516de7853caa4a7f2d8b5ba89dfeb51f5d0a66ab19c3fd01c83c0905be191.bin"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "user32.dll"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568602385.3281,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\639516de7853caa4a7f2d8b5ba89dfeb51f5d0a66ab19c3fd01c83c0905be191.bin",
        "process_name": "639516de7853caa4a7f2d8b5ba89dfeb51f5d0a66ab19c3fd01c83c0905be191.bin",
        "pid": 2660,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\639516de7853caa4a7f2d8b5ba89dfeb51f5d0a66ab19c3fd01c83c0905be191.bin"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "user32.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568602385.6094,
        "ppid": 1624
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Checks if process is being debugged by a debugger",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 0,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "last_error": 0,
                    "nt_status": -1073741515,
                    "api": "IsDebuggerPresent",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {},
                    "time": 1568602385.7344,
                    "tid": 2308,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2660,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 2
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "checks_debugger"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".vmp0",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".vmp1",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "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": 2660,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 1851392,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x002c9000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568602385.7344,
                    "tid": 2308,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2660,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 14
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2660,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 110592,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x002a1000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568602385.7344,
                    "tid": 2308,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2660,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 15
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.9725205655374,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x001c2200",
                    "virtual_address": "0x001ed000",
                    "entropy": 7.9725205655374,
                    "name": ".vmp1",
                    "virtual_size": "0x001c2010"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.83221631615438,
                "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"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable is likely packed with VMProtect",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "section": ".vmp0",
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Section name indicates VMProtect"
            },
            {
                "section": ".vmp1",
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Section name indicates VMProtect"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "packer_vmprotect"
    }
]

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": 6.2009379863739,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5190,
            "time": 6.1375579833984,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5518,
            "time": 4.1489109992981,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5846,
            "time": 6.1450228691101,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6174,
            "time": 4.7710409164429,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6502,
            "time": 3.0380628108978,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6830,
            "time": 4.6884398460388,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 15512,
            "time": 4.182559967041,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 19704,
            "time": 6.2489788532257,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "f51c532a56fab52ba108ea8a5fd57bc03b512786a554b2890b4c629684ed4a07",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "fd615ac1f7ddbf27056af31b5cdf38e14ff1fa6653d07326e9c84321a88d4af2",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandboxScreenshot from the sandbox

Electus_mBotLoader.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove Electus_mBotLoader.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the Electus_mBotLoader.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that Electus_mBotLoader.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 Electus_mBotLoader.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the Electus_mBotLoader.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 Electus_mBotLoader.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    D:\mbot\Electus_mBotLoader.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the Electus_mBotLoader.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If Electus_mBotLoader.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If Electus_mBotLoader.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If Electus_mBotLoader.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 Electus_mBotLoader.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
MD502d84392c5eda994fdf1dab649308fd6
SHA256639516de7853caa4a7f2d8b5ba89dfeb51f5d0a66ab19c3fd01c83c0905be191

Error Messages

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

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

electus_mbotloader.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.

electus_mbotloader.exe has stopped working.

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

electus_mbotloader.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

What will you do with the file?

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with the file. 50% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 2 users.

User vote results: There were 1 vote to remove and 1 vote to keep

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with the file. Only 2 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

Comments

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