What is esg_cleanup.exe?

esg_cleanup.exe is part of SelfRemove and developed by Enigma Software Group USA, LLC. according to the esg_cleanup.exe version information.

esg_cleanup.exe's description is "Enigma Installer TidyUp"

esg_cleanup.exe is digitally signed by Enigma Software Group USA, LLC.

esg_cleanup.exe is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\temp\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about esg_cleanup.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on esg_cleanup.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameSelfRemove
Company nameEnigma Software Group USA, LLC.
File descriptionEnigma Installer TidyUp
Internal nameSelfRemove.exe
Original filenameSelfRemove.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright 2003-2019. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC. All rights reserved.
Product version1.0.595.2682
File version1.0.595.2682

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

Product nameSelfRemove
Company nameEnigma Software Group USA, LLC.
File descriptionEnigma Installer TidyUp
Internal nameSelfRemove.exe
Original filenameSelfRemove.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright 2003-2019. Enigma Software..
Product version1.0.595.2682
File version1.0.595.2682

Digital signatures [?]

esg_cleanup.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameEnigma Software Group USA, LLC
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number6f96db95fcbd9eff6c4d49c347a99e76

VirusTotal report

None of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the esg_cleanup.exe file.

None of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the esg_cleanup.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:\\Windows\\Globalization\\Sorting\\sortdefault.nls"
    ],
    "file_moved": [
        [
            "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
            ""
        ]
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "kernel32.dll"
    ]
}

Dropped

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        "yara": [],
        "sha1": "e3a5a7347a1eb00662e5b40452f1b1b82ed33703",
        "name": "0acdc60591728c09_0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
        "filepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
        "type": "PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows",
        "sha256": "0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7",
        "urls": [
            "http:\/\/s.symcb.com\/universal-root.crl0",
            "http:\/\/ocsp.verisign.com0",
            "http:\/\/sw.symcd.com0",
            "https:\/\/www.verisign.com\/rpa",
            "http:\/\/sw.symcb.com\/sw.crl0",
            "https:\/\/www.verisign.com\/rpa0",
            "http:\/\/ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\/sha256-tss-ca.crl0",
            "https:\/\/d.symcb.com\/cps0%",
            "http:\/\/s.symcd.com06",
            "http:\/\/sw1.symcb.com\/sw.crt0",
            "http:\/\/crl.verisign.com\/pca3-g5.crl04",
            "https:\/\/d.symcb.com\/rpa0",
            "https:\/\/www.verisign.com\/cps0",
            "http:\/\/crl.thawte.com\/ThawteTimestampingCA.crl0",
            "http:\/\/sf.symcb.com\/sf.crl0a",
            "http:\/\/s.symcd.com0",
            "http:\/\/ocsp.thawte.com0",
            "http:\/\/s.symcb.com\/pca3-g5.crl0",
            "http:\/\/ts-aia.ws.symantec.com\/tss-ca-g2.cer0",
            "https:\/\/d.symcb.com\/rpa0.",
            "https:\/\/d.symcb.com\/rpa0)",
            "http:\/\/ts-crl.ws.symantec.com\/tss-ca-g2.crl0(",
            "http:\/\/sf.symcb.com\/sf.crt0",
            "http:\/\/ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com0",
            "http:\/\/ts-aia.ws.symantec.com\/sha256-tss-ca.cer0(",
            "http:\/\/logo.verisign.com\/vslogo.gif04",
            "http:\/\/sf.symcd.com0",
            "http:\/\/www.enigmasoftware.com",
            "http:\/\/ts-ocsp.ws.symantec.com07"
        ],
        "crc32": "C700FE4E",
        "path": "\/home\/hpuser\/.cuckoo\/storage\/analyses\/9738\/files\/0acdc60591728c09_0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
        "ssdeep": null,
        "size": 293736,
        "sha512": "ccd201d69ed5ea2589842d0be7ef970fd01cb249e0316ab1647889a7e394e7340a08e7bd714a2f13689c5ac0f32fed55e69ad97461ebb53b9bf22e9f10d13772",
        "pids": [],
        "md5": "6f5f7265586900434ead3e0499aa3ea9"
    }
]

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
        "process_name": "0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
        "pid": 2420,
        "summary": {
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\Globalization\\Sorting\\sortdefault.nls"
            ],
            "file_moved": [
                [
                    "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
                    ""
                ]
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CustomLocale\\en-US",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\ExtendedLocale\\en-US"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32.dll"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1601455988.625,
        "ppid": 1268
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1601455988.328125,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "D:\\GIT\\esginstaller\\_Builds\\Release\\Win32\\SelfRemove.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Drops an executable to the user AppData folder",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "file",
                "ioc": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "exe_appdata"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Moves the original executable to a new location",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "file",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "MoveFileWithProgressW",
                    "return_value": 1,
                    "arguments": {
                        "oldfilepath": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin",
                        "newfilepath": "",
                        "newfilepath_r": "",
                        "flags": 4,
                        "oldfilepath_r": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\0acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7.bin"
                    },
                    "time": 1601455988.703,
                    "tid": 2460,
                    "flags": {}
                },
                "pid": 2420,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 55
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "moves_self"
    }
]

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": 3.0781331062316895,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3130,
            "time": 3.037260055541992,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3458,
            "time": 1.0235540866851807,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3786,
            "time": 3.0492660999298096,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4114,
            "time": 1.5338139533996582,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4442,
            "time": -0.0981290340423584,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4770,
            "time": 1.5472300052642822,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 10234,
            "time": 1.0570390224456787,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 14426,
            "time": 3.1096761226654053,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "02db57cd72bbb3c80552f0466f6ba710f97d72e00ce277d3701aded544292589",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "73f262b9db60cdf4e3d253ec9093708f1fe13c5e389b69486979eeaa771f0a4f",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD56f5f7265586900434ead3e0499aa3ea9
SHA2560acdc60591728c097cb5b56ca7372bd587442c23148e28bc22e1a034b0a7d6a7

Error Messages

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

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

esg_cleanup.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.

Enigma Installer TidyUp has stopped working.

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

esg_cleanup.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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