What is kmsupd.exe?

kmsupd.exe is part of KMSpico Auto Update and developed by ByELDI according to the kmsupd.exe version information.

kmsupd.exe's description is "KMSpico Auto Update"

kmsupd.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\KMSpico\Update\' folder.

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

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VirusTotal report

21 of the 73 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the kmsupd.exe file. That's a 29% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
AegisLab	Riskware.Win32.Generic.1!c
Alibaba	Trojan:Win32/DefenseEvasion.d8775d1f
Comodo	ApplicUnwnt@#2sthkthptz4ox
CrowdStrike	win/malicious_confidence_60% (W)
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/Application.MMQK-7955
Emsisoft	Application.HackTool (A)
Fortinet	Riskware/Generic_PUA_NL
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.DefenseEvasion
MaxSecure	Trojan.Malware.7175209.susgen
McAfee	Crack-KMS
McAfee-GW-Edition	Crack-KMS
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/DefenseEvasion!rfn
Panda	HackingTool/AutoKMS
Rising	Trojan.DefenseEvasion!8.10FB8 (CLOUD)
Sophos	Generic PUA NL (PUA)
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.MBT
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R002C0DEP20
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R002C0DEP20
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra
Webroot	W32.Hack.Tool

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "dll_loaded": [
        "ADVAPI32.dll",
        "SHLWAPI.dll",
        "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
        "gdi32.dll"
    ],
    "file_opened": [
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v2.0.50727\\",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c63261db378f0886a02427a7c278ee460fe18d9cbaf2c6cedf2075890eb6a4fa.bin"
    ],
    "regkey_opened": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\standards\\v4.0.30319",
        "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\v2.0",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\standards",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\AppPatch"
    ],
    "file_exists": [
        "C:\\Windows\\System32\\MSCOREE.DLL.local"
    ],
    "file_failed": [
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\Upgrades.2.0.50727\\",
        "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c63261db378f0886a02427a7c278ee460fe18d9cbaf2c6cedf2075890eb6a4fa.bin.config",
        "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v4.0.30319\\"
    ],
    "regkey_read": [
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\OnlyUseLatestCLR",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\NoGuiFromShim",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\CLRLoadLogDir",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\InstallRoot",
        "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1593838386.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c63261db378f0886a02427a7c278ee460fe18d9cbaf2c6cedf2075890eb6a4fa.bin",
        "process_name": "c63261db378f0886a02427a7c278ee460fe18d9cbaf2c6cedf2075890eb6a4fa.bin",
        "pid": 2436,
        "summary": {
            "dll_loaded": [
                "ADVAPI32.dll",
                "SHLWAPI.dll",
                "C:\\Windows\\system32\\IMM32.DLL",
                "gdi32.dll"
            ],
            "file_opened": [
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v2.0.50727\\",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c63261db378f0886a02427a7c278ee460fe18d9cbaf2c6cedf2075890eb6a4fa.bin"
            ],
            "regkey_opened": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Standards",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\Upgrades",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\standards\\v4.0.30319",
                "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\v2.0",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\standards",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\Policy\\AppPatch"
            ],
            "file_exists": [
                "C:\\Windows\\System32\\MSCOREE.DLL.local"
            ],
            "file_failed": [
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\Upgrades.2.0.50727\\",
                "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\c63261db378f0886a02427a7c278ee460fe18d9cbaf2c6cedf2075890eb6a4fa.bin.config",
                "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v4.0.30319\\"
            ],
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\OnlyUseLatestCLR",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Windows\\LoadAppInit_DLLs",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\NoGuiFromShim",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\CLRLoadLogDir",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\.NETFramework\\InstallRoot",
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1593838386.578125,
        "ppid": 2736
    }
]

Signatures

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Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

{
    "tls": [],
    "udp": [
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            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 546,
            "time": 3.0787770748138428,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2234,
            "time": 3.0145280361175537,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
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        },
        {
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            "dport": 5355,
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        },
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        },
        {
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            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3874,
            "time": 1.5959551334381104,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 7202,
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            "dport": 3702,
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        },
        {
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            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "e9eca6379ed98fb485d3bd9a11252f2e1073c2ffa6a2467313473eda97da6adf",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "21aaa5f506d8e6ee00fd229e18e75101ff82dc113d8cebebe88af1a49c6aa9c2",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

kmsupd.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove kmsupd.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the kmsupd.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that kmsupd.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 kmsupd.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the kmsupd.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 kmsupd.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\KMSpico\Update\kmsupd.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the kmsupd.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If kmsupd.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If kmsupd.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If kmsupd.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 kmsupd.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

Error Messages

What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with kmsupd.exe. 67% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 12 users.

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with kmsupd.exe. Only 12 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

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