What is kosmix.exe?

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

kosmix.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

kosmix.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

46 of the 74 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the kosmix.exe file. That's a 62% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Acronis suspicious
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.41300465
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.Ransomcrypt.R272328
Alibaba Trojan:Win32/CryptInject.ea1d119c
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.41300465
Antiy-AVL Trojan[Ransom]/Win32.Sodinokibi.a
APEX Malicious
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D27631F1
Avast Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira TR/Crypt.Agent.ctdsq
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.41300465
CrowdStrike win/malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cylance Unsafe
DrWeb Trojan.Siggen8.27161
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.41300465 (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Kryptik.GTEQ
F-Secure Trojan.TR/Crypt.Agent.ctdsq
FireEye Generic.mg.4d25f7c46252db8c
Fortinet W32/Kryptik.GTES!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.41300465
Ikarus Trojan.Win32.Crypt
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0054e56c1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0054e56c1 )
Malwarebytes Trojan.MalPack.GS.Generic
McAfee RDN/Generic.grp
McAfee-GW-Edition RDN/Generic.grp
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/CryptInject.YJ!MTB
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.41300465
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Kryptik.fqjfts
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM10.2.3E8D.Malware.Gen
Rising Trojan.Kryptik!8.8/N3#98% (RDM+:cmRtazp4VD0M8dQOITxVj/8UnyH+)
SentinelOne DFI - Suspicious PE
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Trojan.Gen.MBT
Trapmine malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R049C0PEL19
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R049C0PEL19
VBA32 BScope.Trojan.Fsysna
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Yandex Trojan.Kryptik!oK4MPf0j16Y
Zillya Trojan.Kryptik.Win32.1639585
46 of the 74 anti-virus programs detected the kosmix.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Summary

{
    "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"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\125d9d3724f857d2d662f690d2076c979c2c0a09bf1e1a33718f74d7bed45694.bin",
        "process_name": "125d9d3724f857d2d662f690d2076c979c2c0a09bf1e1a33718f74d7bed45694.bin",
        "pid": 1664,
        "summary": {
            "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": 1565463185.5312,
        "ppid": 2448
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1565463185.2969,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 5,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The file contains an unknown PE resource name possibly indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "AFX_DIALOG_LAYOUT",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "BEPE",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "NASIREJOLIKO",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "RODUBAVIZUKIVEMIFOYIMOLAJA",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "None",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Allocates read-write-execute memory (usually to unpack itself)",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "process",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "NtProtectVirtualMemory",
                    "return_value": 0,
                    "arguments": {
                        "process_identifier": 1664,
                        "stack_dep_bypass": 0,
                        "stack_pivoted": 0,
                        "heap_dep_bypass": 1,
                        "length": 159744,
                        "protection": 64,
                        "process_handle": "0xffffffff",
                        "base_address": "0x031b4000"
                    },
                    "time": 1565463186.2812,
                    "tid": 2736,
                    "flags": {
                        "protection": "PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 1664,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 48
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "allocates_rwx"
    }
]

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": 3.078959941864,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2234,
            "time": 3.0387189388275,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2562,
            "time": 1.0158350467682,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2890,
            "time": 3.0511181354523,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3218,
            "time": 1.5183200836182,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3546,
            "time": -0.090410947799683,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3874,
            "time": 1.5319409370422,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8350,
            "time": 1.0367760658264,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 12542,
            "time": 3.1100950241089,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "bb2e20a96e3b81c1a2e847eb451b40dd4f6aac285cd9593aefbb4641088511aa",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "9104faf0e1a1592f2291c194e7696fbdba47af3d3cc9497763d88bef2f8f827f",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandbox

kosmix.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove kosmix.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the kosmix.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that kosmix.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 kosmix.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the kosmix.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 kosmix.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\kosmix.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the kosmix.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If kosmix.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If kosmix.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If kosmix.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 kosmix.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
MD54d25f7c46252db8c7b48f30e67e24372
SHA256125d9d3724f857d2d662f690d2076c979c2c0a09bf1e1a33718f74d7bed45694

Error Messages

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

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

kosmix.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.

kosmix.exe has stopped working.

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

kosmix.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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