What is kele.exe?

kele.exe is part of Mooncalf and developed by GLUTENIN9 according to the kele.exe version information.

kele.exe's description is "PSYCHOGNOSIS7"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on kele.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameMooncalf
Company nameGLUTENIN9
File descriptionPSYCHOGNOSIS7
Internal nameAdne7
Original filenameAdne7.exe
CommentsNondelicately
Legal copyrightVALINA
Legal trademarklysosomally5
Product version1.08.0002
File version1.08.0002

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

Product nameMooncalf
Company nameGLUTENIN9
File descriptionPSYCHOGNOSIS7
Internal nameAdne7
Original filenameAdne7.exe
CommentsNondelicately
Legal copyrightVALINA
Legal trademarklysosomally5
Product version1.08.0002
File version1.08.0002

Digital signatures [?]

kele.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

51 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the kele.exe file. That's a 72% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.31931408
AegisLab Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
AhnLab-V3 Win-Trojan/VBMalpack.Gen
Alibaba Trojan:Win32/VBKryjetor.c65682a8
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.31931408
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.VBKryjetor
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1E73C10
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
Avira TR/Injector.iqwtw
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.31931408
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.VBKryjetor
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason malicious.9d0219
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/VBKrypt.NT.gen!Eldorado
DrWeb BackDoor.Siggen2.2488
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.31931408 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Injector.EFDP
F-Prot W32/VBKrypt.NT.gen!Eldorado
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Injector.iqwtw
FireEye Generic.mg.0a513df438d3cc51
Fortinet W32/Injector.EFDY!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.31931408
Ikarus Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0054d1891 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0054d1891 )
Kaspersky Trojan.Win32.VBKryjetor.bsnz
Malwarebytes Trojan.MalPack.VB.Generic
McAfee Fareit-FOQ!0A513DF438D3
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Fareit.jc
Microsoft VirTool:Win32/VBInject.BAW!bit
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.31931408
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.VBKryjetor.fptqze
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM03.0.11F1.Malware.Gen
Rising Trojan.Injector!8.C4 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/FareitVB-N
SUPERAntiSpyware Trojan.Agent/Gen-Dropper
Symantec Trojan Horse
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Vbkryjetor.Frt
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R04AC0DDU19
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R04AC0DDU19
VBA32 Trojan.VBKryjetor
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Agent.692224.AC
ZoneAlarm Trojan.Win32.VBKryjetor.bsnz
51 of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the kele.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "dll_loaded": [
        "NETAPI32.DLL",
        "dwmapi.dll",
        "kernel32",
        "SXS.DLL",
        "ntdll",
        "CRYPT32.DLL",
        "SHELL32.DLL",
        "KERNEL32.dll",
        "msvcrt.dll",
        "user32",
        "GDI32.dll",
        "shell32",
        "ADVAPI32.DLL",
        "WS2_32.dll",
        "USER32.dll",
        "OLEAUT32.DLL"
    ],
    "command_line": [
        "\u0001C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\d12c1f94dbfecfc404f2b22ea5af742b01f0114a4acee0e93ceed94168a6b632.bin\" "
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VBA\\Monitors",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\crypt32"
    ],
    "resolves_host": [
        "77.48.28.246"
    ],
    "connects_ip": [
        "77.48.28.246"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_949.NLS",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_932.NLS",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_950.NLS",
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_936.NLS"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\936",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\932",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\949",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\950",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\services\\crypt32\\DebugHeapFlags"
    ],
    "directory_enumerated": [
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\FICTIONAL",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\lopnur"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\d12c1f94dbfecfc404f2b22ea5af742b01f0114a4acee0e93ceed94168a6b632.bin",
        "process_name": "d12c1f94dbfecfc404f2b22ea5af742b01f0114a4acee0e93ceed94168a6b632.bin",
        "pid": 2436,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32",
                "SXS.DLL",
                "ntdll",
                "user32",
                "OLEAUT32.DLL",
                "shell32",
                "dwmapi.dll"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VBA\\Monitors"
            ],
            "command_line": [
                "\u0001C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\d12c1f94dbfecfc404f2b22ea5af742b01f0114a4acee0e93ceed94168a6b632.bin\" "
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_949.NLS",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_932.NLS",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_950.NLS",
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\C_936.NLS"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\932",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\949",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\950",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage\\936"
            ],
            "directory_enumerated": [
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\FICTIONAL",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\lopnur"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568541186.6719,
        "ppid": 1664
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\d12c1f94dbfecfc404f2b22ea5af742b01f0114a4acee0e93ceed94168a6b632.bin",
        "process_name": "d12c1f94dbfecfc404f2b22ea5af742b01f0114a4acee0e93ceed94168a6b632.bin",
        "pid": 1676,
        "summary": {
            "connects_ip": [
                "77.48.28.246"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\crypt32"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\services\\crypt32\\DebugHeapFlags"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "NETAPI32.DLL",
                "kernel32",
                "ntdll",
                "CRYPT32.DLL",
                "SHELL32.DLL",
                "KERNEL32.dll",
                "msvcrt.dll",
                "user32",
                "GDI32.dll",
                "shell32",
                "ADVAPI32.DLL",
                "WS2_32.dll",
                "USER32.dll"
            ],
            "resolves_host": [
                "77.48.28.246"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1568541189.9371,
        "ppid": 2436
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1568541186.3281,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 6,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2436,
                        "region_size": 28672,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x00390000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568541186.9379,
                    "tid": 2124,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2436,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 174
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2436,
                        "region_size": 67108864,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x03520000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568541189.7969,
                    "tid": 2124,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2436,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 258
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2436,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 876544,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x77ba0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568541189.8129,
                    "tid": 2124,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2436,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 315
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 1676,
                        "region_size": 28672,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 4096,
                        "base_address": "0x00560000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568541189.9991,
                    "tid": 2872,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 1676,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 4
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtAllocateVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 1676,
                        "region_size": 67108864,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "allocation_type": 12288,
                        "base_address": "0x029b0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568541195.0461,
                    "tid": 2872,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE",
                        "allocation_type": "MEM_COMMIT|MEM_RESERVE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 1676,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 134
            },
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 1676,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "length": 876544,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x77ba0000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568541195.0621,
                    "tid": 2872,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 1676,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 191
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Changes read-write memory protection to read-execute (probably to avoid detection when setting all RWX flags at the same time)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 2436,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 1,
                        "length": 24576,
                        "protection": 32,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x00330000"
                    },
                    "time": 1568541186.7809,
                    "tid": 2124,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READ"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2436,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 18
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "protection_rx"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.340830558944,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x000a0000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00001000",
                    "entropy": 7.340830558944,
                    "name": ".text",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0009f3e0"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.95238095238095,
                "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": 3.1423461437225,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.1725170612335,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.0495970249176,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.0173680782318,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.094162940979,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5203070640564,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.098541975021362,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.5472359657288,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0479140281677,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.1440839767456,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "4eb262e115844d58ea8429ebb41570c4d5ec21de652ebe2c1b092182315b7a31",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "f84c2cb8087e200b2957c47233bac1009b60b0a3c9f916d2e0b1a98789f610e3",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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kele.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove kele.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the kele.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that kele.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 kele.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the kele.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 kele.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\kele.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the kele.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If kele.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If kele.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If kele.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 kele.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
MD50a513df438d3cc51bc719714c8bf905a
SHA256d12c1f94dbfecfc404f2b22ea5af742b01f0114a4acee0e93ceed94168a6b632

Error Messages

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

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

kele.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.

PSYCHOGNOSIS7 has stopped working.

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

kele.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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