What is data.exe?

data.exe is part of Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and developed by Microsoft Corporation according to the data.exe version information.

data.exe's description is "Microsoft Software Protection Platform Service"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on data.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameMicrosoft® Windows® Operating System
Company nameMicrosoft Corporation
File descriptionMicrosoft Software Protection Platform Service
Internal namesppsvc
Original filenamesppsvc.exe
Legal copyright© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Product version6.1.7601.17514
File version6.1.7601.17514 (win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850)

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

Product nameMicrosoft® Windows® Operating System
Company nameMicrosoft Corporation
File descriptionMicrosoft Software Protection Platfo..
Internal namesppsvc
Original filenamesppsvc.exe
Legal copyright© Microsoft Corporation. All rights..
Product version6.1.7601.17514
File version6.1.7601.17514 (win7sp1_rtm.101119-1..

Digital signatures [?]

The verification of data.exe's digital signature failed.

PropertyValue
Signer nameGDAMSVKM
Certificate issuer nameGDAMSVKM
Certificate serial numberd4aa1e74e5978eb04006fb89cdcd5e76

VirusTotal report

45 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the data.exe file. That's a 63% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.41154998
AegisLab Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.41154998
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.NetStream
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D273F9B6
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.41154998
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason malicious.05c7fc
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.MMPT-4304
DrWeb Trojan.DownLoader27.41277
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.41154998 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Kryptik.GLWT
FireEye Generic.mg.8053ac605c7fc0bf
Fortinet W32/Kryptik.GLWT!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.41154998
Ikarus Backdoor.Win32.Cidox
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0053f76c1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0053f76c1 )
Kaspersky Trojan.Win32.NetStream.hxv
Malwarebytes Trojan.Dropper
McAfee GenericRXHH-VO!8053AC605C7F
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!Trojan
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Dynamer!rfn
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.41154998
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Kryptik.fopclm
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.2b8
Rising Trojan.Kryptik!8.8 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Malicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Trojan.Gen.MBT
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Netstream.Dxmh
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R03FC0WCU19
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R03FC0WCU19
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Webroot W32.Trojan.Gen
ZoneAlarm Trojan.Win32.NetStream.hxv
45 of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the data.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

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    "file_created": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\7A4D5069.tmp",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\67637533.tmp",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp",
        "KERNEL32.dll",
        "SHELL32.dll",
        "kernel32.dll",
        "MSVCRT.dll",
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\436D5271.tmp",
        "ole32.dll",
        "SHLWAPI.dll",
        "USER32.dll"
    ],
    "file_failed": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\offreg.dll"
    ],
    "file_copied": [
        [
            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\advapi32.dll",
            "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\7A4D5069.tmp"
        ],
        [
            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\ntdll.dll",
            "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\436D5271.tmp"
        ],
        [
            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\kernel32.dll",
            "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\67637533.tmp"
        ]
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\OLE",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Select",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\OLE\\Tracing",
        "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\interface\\{aa5b6a80-b834-11d0-932f-00a0c90dcaa9}",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Diagnostics"
    ],
    "file_written": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp"
    ],
    "file_deleted": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp"
    ],
    "mutex": [
        "TmpNtMutex",
        "{03B8A4CD-37A3-3A5D-99BA-2F2544D2A32F}"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\OLE\\PageAllocatorSystemHeapIsPrivate",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Wow6432Node\\Interface\\{AA5B6A80-B834-11D0-932F-00A0C90DCAA9}\\(Default)",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\OLE\\PageAllocatorUseSystemHeap",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Select\\Current"
    ]
}

Dropped

[
    {
        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "c53972b97a0046e19d3115ec1e49460748bfb6d3",
        "name": "873a2ba4c3bb88b9_42384971.tmp",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp",
        "type": "PE32 executable (DLL) (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows",
        "sha256": "873a2ba4c3bb88b9354eab47b8e5f8118212a63abf7cb149696a385edb57dd63",
        "urls": [],
        "crc32": "C52A5E19",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/6340\/files\/873a2ba4c3bb88b9_42384971.tmp",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 47104,
        "sha512": "255f850ef0f8fd5afdaf2d8e803247d9c42072ea19303b86a01167e8a470c97ce018ad73dbc6bca1284c2d011ec45c1f4ef0342583185a1db0b3f209fe5e173b",
        "pids": [
            2016
        ],
        "md5": "94bf8c26c5b85c2c490cf4440ab8170b"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ac6f1118850352602a6e165f3d86d2fa736a3f12cdf673ff4cb41a99287cbf7b.bin",
        "process_name": "ac6f1118850352602a6e165f3d86d2fa736a3f12cdf673ff4cb41a99287cbf7b.bin",
        "pid": 2016,
        "summary": {
            "file_created": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\7A4D5069.tmp",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\67637533.tmp",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp",
                "KERNEL32.dll",
                "SHELL32.dll",
                "kernel32.dll",
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                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\436D5271.tmp",
                "ole32.dll",
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                "USER32.dll"
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            "file_failed": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\offreg.dll"
            ],
            "file_copied": [
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                    "C:\\Windows\\System32\\advapi32.dll",
                    "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\7A4D5069.tmp"
                ],
                [
                    "C:\\Windows\\System32\\ntdll.dll",
                    "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\436D5271.tmp"
                ],
                [
                    "C:\\Windows\\System32\\kernel32.dll",
                    "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\67637533.tmp"
                ]
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\OLE",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Select",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\OLE\\Tracing",
                "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\interface\\{aa5b6a80-b834-11d0-932f-00a0c90dcaa9}",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Diagnostics"
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            "file_written": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp"
            ],
            "file_deleted": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\42384971.tmp"
            ],
            "mutex": [
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                "{03B8A4CD-37A3-3A5D-99BA-2F2544D2A32F}"
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            "regkey_read": [
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                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Wow6432Node\\Interface\\{AA5B6A80-B834-11D0-932F-00A0C90DCAA9}\\(Default)",
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        "ppid": 2660
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    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1585126387.328125,
        "ppid": 376
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]

Signatures

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        "families": [],
        "description": "Queries for the computername",
        "severity": 1,
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Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

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}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

data.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove data.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the data.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that data.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 data.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the data.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 data.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\data.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the data.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If data.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If data.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If data.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 data.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
MD58053ac605c7fc0bf3f3779133849de3f
SHA256ac6f1118850352602a6e165f3d86d2fa736a3f12cdf673ff4cb41a99287cbf7b

Error Messages

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

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

data.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.

Microsoft Software Protection Platform Service has stopped working.

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

data.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with data.exe. 100% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 1 user.

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Remove100 %
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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

ABAL1412 writes

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I downloaded Data.zip from Mega. The zip file contains 2 txt files and Data.exe. The txt files are completely save. But Data.exe is a real nightmare. I've found more than 20 viruses after scanning my PC.

# 25 Nov 2021, 19:10

ABAL1412 writes

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*safe, not save. sorry for my bad.

# 25 Nov 2021, 19:11

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