What is cl.exe?

cl.exe is part of EpicNet Cloud Office and developed by EpicNet Inc. according to the cl.exe version information.

cl.exe's description is "Cloud Net"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on cl.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameEpicNet Cloud Office
Company nameEpicNet Inc.
File descriptionCloud Net
Internal namecloudnet.exe
Original filenamecloudnet.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2017
Product version7.2.1.1
File version7.2.1.1

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

Product nameEpicNet Cloud Office
Company nameEpicNet Inc.
File descriptionCloud Net
Internal namecloudnet.exe
Original filenamecloudnet.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2017
Product version7.2.1.1
File version7.2.1.1

Digital signatures [?]

cl.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

44 of the 67 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the cl.exe file. That's a 66% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.SmearPasse.R247805
ALYac Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
Arcabit Trojan.Razy.D55144
Avast Win32:CrypterX-gen [Trj]
AVG Win32:CrypterX-gen [Trj]
Avira TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen2
BitDefender Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
Bkav W32.KillProcSMB.Worm
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Glupteba.S5486226
Comodo TrojWare.Win32.Glupteba.BC@82zlxv
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (D)
Cybereason malicious.5e5bb3
Cyren W32/Glupteba.A.gen!Eldorado
DrWeb Trojan.Proxy2.1436
Emsisoft Gen:Variant.Razy.348484 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Glupteba.BC
F-Prot W32/Glupteba.A.gen!Eldorado
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen2
FireEye Generic.mg.57360535e5bb3e6b
Fortinet W32/Generic.AP.128842!tr
GData Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
Ikarus Trojan.Win32.Glupteba
Invincea heuristic
Jiangmin TrojanProxy.Glupteba.adt
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 005115a11 )
K7GW Trojan ( 005115a11 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Glupteba.gen
Malwarebytes Trojan.BitCoinMiner
MAX malware (ai score=89)
McAfee Trojan-FQGO!57360535E5BB
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.jc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Glupteba
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
Panda Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM20.1.63B3.Malware.Gen
Rising Trojan.Proxy-Glupteba!8.307D (RDM+:cmRtazqdU/9+jB1GsqZmjcOhF2lJ)
SentinelOne DFI - Malicious PE
Sophos Troj/Glupteba-M
SUPERAntiSpyware Hack.Tool/Gen-BitCoinMiner
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Glupteba.gen
44 of the 67 anti-virus programs detected the cl.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\TestApp"
    ],
    "mutex": [
        "Global\\Mp6c3Ygukx29GbDk",
        "Global\\5c51774e43c9db3aa687f23c27956104",
        "Global\\e05baf3e0c3214593c5ee81af5917770"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "kernel32"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\313c7dbb7f5bb507c50f99d3cd28cbd6bb71b9e765a0be4180529d2be27b10b5.bin",
        "process_name": "313c7dbb7f5bb507c50f99d3cd28cbd6bb71b9e765a0be4180529d2be27b10b5.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\TestApp"
            ],
            "mutex": [
                "Global\\Mp6c3Ygukx29GbDk",
                "Global\\5c51774e43c9db3aa687f23c27956104",
                "Global\\e05baf3e0c3214593c5ee81af5917770"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1583610785.625,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1583610785.328125,
        "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": "init",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "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": 2816,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 524288,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x00401000"
                    },
                    "time": 1583610785.703,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 0
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.798791547341656,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0007f600",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00001000",
                    "entropy": 7.798791547341656,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0007f465"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.765015015015015,
                "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": 3.0791540145874023,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2018,
            "time": 3.016317844390869,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2346,
            "time": 1.0361778736114502,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2674,
            "time": 3.0234620571136475,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3002,
            "time": 1.536041021347046,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3330,
            "time": -0.09732413291931152,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3658,
            "time": 1.5627310276031494,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6986,
            "time": 1.0696170330047607,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 11178,
            "time": 3.126185894012451,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "911db105951a135efa7ea2349f8f699e3ff340932cc613f1af791b4a4ae668cd",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "de35bc83d8a9cec72e9b9556b0ce8e07b22f87f2431b1aa43d3a081ca503a988",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

cl.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove cl.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the cl.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that cl.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 cl.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the cl.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 cl.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\cl.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the cl.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If cl.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If cl.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If cl.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 cl.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
MD557360535e5bb3e6b12c28f081ce9998c
SHA256313c7dbb7f5bb507c50f99d3cd28cbd6bb71b9e765a0be4180529d2be27b10b5

Error Messages

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

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

cl.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.

Cloud Net has stopped working.

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

cl.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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