What is eppdisk.sys?

eppdisk.sys is part of Emsisoft Protection Platform and developed by Emsisoft Ltd according to the eppdisk.sys version information.

eppdisk.sys's description is "Emsisoft Protection Platform"

eppdisk.sys is digitally signed by Emsisoft Ltd.

eppdisk.sys is usually located in the 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about eppdisk.sys.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on eppdisk.sys:

PropertyValue
Product nameEmsisoft Protection Platform
Company nameEmsisoft Ltd
File descriptionEmsisoft Protection Platform
Internal nameEppDisk
Original filenameeppdisk.sys
Comments55ed7e39de330d186565e21f1b9df4b6d3b61be6
Legal copyright(C) 2003-2019 Emsisoft Ltd
Product version2019.04.0.2118
File version2019.04.0.2118

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

Product nameEmsisoft Protection Platform
Company nameEmsisoft Ltd
File descriptionEmsisoft Protection Platform
Internal nameEppDisk
Original filenameeppdisk.sys
Comments55ed7e39de330d186565e21f1b9df4b6d3b6..
Legal copyright(C) 2003-2019 Emsisoft Ltd
Product version2019.04.0.2118
File version2019.04.0.2118

Digital signatures [?]

eppdisk.sys has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameEmsisoft Ltd
Certificate issuer nameDigiCert High Assurance Code Signing CA-1
Certificate serial number0f5a6aba731e01102c7311464dbed0ba

VirusTotal report

None of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the eppdisk.sys file.

None of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the eppdisk.sys file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "dll_loaded": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
    ],
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
    ],
    "command_line": [
        "\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\rundll32.exe\" C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll,DllMain"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll.manifest",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
    ],
    "file_read": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\WMR\\Disable",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\rundll32.exe",
        "process_name": "rundll32.exe",
        "pid": 2968,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\en-US\\KERNELBASE.dll.mui"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll.manifest",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Windows Error Reporting\\WMR\\Disable",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1562349184.8594,
        "ppid": 2800
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\rundll32.exe",
        "process_name": "rundll32.exe",
        "pid": 2800,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
            ],
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
            ],
            "command_line": [
                "\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\rundll32.exe\" C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll,DllMain"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll.manifest",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
            ],
            "file_read": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\61459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c.bin.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1562349184.6562,
        "ppid": 2924
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1562349184.3438,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "X:\\Gitlab\\Builds\\e945be61\\0\\lab\\protectionplatform\\Output\\Release\\x64\\eppdisk.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "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"
    }
]

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": 6.1977491378784,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5190,
            "time": 6.1332612037659,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5518,
            "time": 4.1445281505585,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5846,
            "time": 6.1414711475372,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6174,
            "time": 4.6506791114807,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6502,
            "time": 3.0308630466461,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6830,
            "time": 4.2293691635132,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 18678,
            "time": 4.175369977951,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 24966,
            "time": 6.2469911575317,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "70a7c6805662453ad3780b6e9b7b0cfc2fb20f787dc56181dd7c1fccc2763d36",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "1316c436a711cebfc46c5f636083e706407caab098a73f133449b9063c66250e",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD501b95474f03a1844d66ac280a1763c79
SHA25661459b6446c5f1932010f42837ebe302eba6b0fe23cee6b57a43f4372e40f44c

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