What is santiviruskd.sys?

santiviruskd.sys is part of Antivirus Driver and developed by Digital Comm. Inc according to the santiviruskd.sys version information.

santiviruskd.sys's description is "Antivirus Driver"

santiviruskd.sys is digitally signed by Digital Communications Inc..

santiviruskd.sys is usually located in the 'c:\program files\santivirus\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected santiviruskd.sys.

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VirusTotal report

4 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the santiviruskd.sys file. That's a 6% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Arcabit	PUP.Segurazo
GData	Win32.Application.Segurazo.A
Panda	PUP/SegurazoAV
Rising	Malware.Heuristic!ET#86% (RDMK:cmRtazpBJazZhp9ixGjGsrpGZgGn)

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

ERROR: Failed to execute process.

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1581731585.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "D:\\Code\\Segurazo\\Source\\Release\\SegurazoKD.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 2,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "PAGE",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": "INIT",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Foreign language identified in PE resource",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "name": "RT_VERSION",
                "language": "LANG_ENGLISH",
                "offset": "0x00012060",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_ARABIC_QATAR",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000002cc"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "origin_langid"
    }
]

Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

{
    "tls": [],
    "udp": [
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 710,
            "time": 1.0520069599151611,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 1038,
            "time": -0.08991813659667969,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 1366,
            "time": 1.0729007720947266,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "312f8ad709a19d8b5af2e20c2e8d193189fb53d9fe38af09be90afbc1b233851",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "d500ee99dc7a21756ccbeb29efdbdb278dfde2b46f8dc0660807257b0144bde6",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

santiviruskd.sys removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\program files\santivirus\santiviruskd.sys

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

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

What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with the file. 86% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 21 users.

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with the file.

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