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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VirusTotal report

56 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the cl.exe file. That's a 79% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Acronis	suspicious
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
AegisLab	Trojan.Win32.Glupteba.4!c
AhnLab-V3	Trojan/Win32.SmearPasse.R247805
Alibaba	TrojanProxy:Win32/Glupteba.91c27fda
ALYac	Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
Antiy-AVL	Trojan[Proxy]/Win32.Glupteba
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_90% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.d06c81
Cylance	Unsafe
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.5fb695cd06c81fb7
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=100)
McAfee	Trojan-FQGO!5FB695CD06C8
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.jc
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Glupteba
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Razy.348484
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Glupteba.fpthou
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360	Win32/Trojan.Proxy.6bb
Rising	Trojan.Proxy-Glupteba!8.307D (CLOUD)
SentinelOne	DFI - Malicious PE
Sophos	Troj/Glupteba-M
SUPERAntiSpyware	Hack.Tool/Gen-BitCoinMiner
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.MBT
Tencent	Win32.Trojan-proxy.Glupteba.Tapi
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R002C0DE319
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Glupteba.683008.JNR
Webroot	W32.Trojan.Gen
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Glupteba.gen

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\\5afa3c562f5bf2eff62de390e531c25d",
        "Global\\22b91e866a98674f898cc7add8841a39"
    ],
    "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\\637eb002a9e603f00ac38f76967cf922e58580d8cc5a50d62a67cf5d97b80a13.bin",
        "process_name": "637eb002a9e603f00ac38f76967cf922e58580d8cc5a50d62a67cf5d97b80a13.bin",
        "pid": 2740,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\TestApp"
            ],
            "mutex": [
                "Global\\Mp6c3Ygukx29GbDk",
                "Global\\5afa3c562f5bf2eff62de390e531c25d",
                "Global\\22b91e866a98674f898cc7add8841a39"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568764390.6406,
        "ppid": 1664
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568764390.3438,
        "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": 2740,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 524288,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x00401000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568764390.7346,
                    "tid": 2436,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2740,
                "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": 7.7952099653104,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0007f600",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00001000",
                    "entropy": 7.7952099653104,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0007f465"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.76501501501502,
                "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": 3.0783848762512,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2018,
            "time": 3.0358610153198,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2346,
            "time": 1.0155639648438,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2674,
            "time": 3.0473589897156,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3002,
            "time": 1.5204758644104,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3330,
            "time": -0.10251712799072,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3658,
            "time": 1.5311100482941,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6986,
            "time": 1.0481128692627,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 11178,
            "time": 3.1095149517059,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "82be26e0d26879edc009c2c9f67ce2fcbab85771f47c4d58efc553035b124be1",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "cc4596234490e7d3d8b69b56476a31162bc942fbececd50bcc46515f5650b120",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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.

   
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.

   

   

   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.

   
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.

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