What is pushbot.exe?

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

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

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VirusTotal report

46 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the pushbot.exe file. That's a 65% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.31798999
AegisLab	Trojan.Win32.Generic.4!c
Alibaba	TrojanDownloader:Win32/Adload.cd2013e4
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.31798999
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.Azden
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D1E536D7
Avast	Win32:Malware-gen
AVG	Win32:Malware-gen
Avira	TR/Dldr.Adload.vtpar
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.31798999
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.Presenoker
Comodo	Malware@#l6c84aws6lgr
Cybereason	malicious.2d66da
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/Trojan.IWVJ-5738
DrWeb	Adware.Siggen.32783
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.31798999 (B)
ESET-NOD32	Win32/TrojanDownloader.Adload.NUE
F-Secure	Trojan.TR/Dldr.Adload.vtpar
FireEye	Trojan.GenericKD.31798999
Fortinet	W32/PUP.X!tr
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.31798999
Ikarus	Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Adload
Invincea	heuristic
K7AntiVirus	Trojan-Downloader ( 0054a3f91 )
K7GW	Trojan-Downloader ( 0054a3f91 )
Malwarebytes	Trojan.Injector
MAX	malware (ai score=100)
McAfee	RDN/Generic PUP.x
McAfee-GW-Edition	RDN/Generic PUP.x
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.A!bit
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.31798999
NANO-Antivirus	Riskware.Win32.Adload.fnyspx
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM10.2.B523.Malware.Gen
Rising	PUA.Presenoker!8.F608 (CLOUD)
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
SUPERAntiSpyware	Trojan.Agent/Gen-Downloader
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.MBT
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Generic.Lkxc
TrendMicro	TROJ_FRS.VSN1AC19
TrendMicro-HouseCall	Adware.Win32.OxyPumper.SM
VBA32	Trojan.Azden
Webroot	W32.Adware.Gen
Yandex	Trojan.DL.Adload!QTjBfDJwPGY
Zillya	Downloader.Adload.Win32.82500

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"
    ],
    "dll_loaded": [
        "kernel32"
    ]
}

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\dc3e5c180bb14e2678c65e3287eac3734b06e6eb788748f43d52dad01310bf84.bin",
        "process_name": "dc3e5c180bb14e2678c65e3287eac3734b06e6eb788748f43d52dad01310bf84.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {
            "regkey_read": [
                "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\GRE_Initialize\\DisableMetaFiles"
            ],
            "dll_loaded": [
                "kernel32"
            ]
        },
        "first_seen": 1575647585.609375,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1575647585.328125,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "C:\\Work\\installer\\Release\\pushbot.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    }
]

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": 3.0783450603485107,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2018,
            "time": 3.0211989879608154,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2346,
            "time": 1.0160319805145264,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2674,
            "time": 3.031182050704956,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3002,
            "time": 1.518362045288086,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3330,
            "time": -0.0877678394317627,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 3658,
            "time": 1.5468580722808838,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6986,
            "time": 1.049401044845581,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 11178,
            "time": 3.1249001026153564,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "320b8da09c2fe2512673ba1658e9326bdbc53d2ae20de84287e47122a3945d83",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "2ed69636e1a62dd3ccce94eb35565872d924a9d5267a783165bf0efd757580af",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

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pushbot.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\pushbot.exe

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

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

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