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 (x86)\digital communications\santivirus\' folder.

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on santiviruskd.sys:

PropertyValue
Product nameAntivirus Driver
Company nameDigital Comm. Inc
File descriptionAntivirus Driver
Original filenamesantiviruskd.sys
Legal copyrightCopyright © Digital Comm. Inc 2018
Product version1.0.1.6
File version1.0.1.6

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

Product nameAntivirus Driver
Company nameDigital Comm. Inc
File descriptionAntivirus Driver
Original filenamesantiviruskd.sys
Legal copyrightCopyright © Digital Comm. Inc 2018
Product version1.0.1.6
File version1.0.1.6

Digital signatures [?]

santiviruskd.sys has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameDigital Communications Inc.
Certificate issuer nameCOMODO RSA Extended Validation Code Signing CA
Certificate serial number12dfc245bb37b84c6da2fba4e421b62e

VirusTotal report

3 of the 73 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the santiviruskd.sys file. That's a 4% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Arcabit PUP.Segurazo
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
Panda PUP/SegurazoAV
3 of the 73 anti-virus programs detected the santiviruskd.sys file.

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": 1583837585.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "D:\\Code\\Segurazo\\Source\\x64\\Release\\SegurazoKD64.pdb",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 3,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".gfids",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "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": "0x00016060",
                "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": 982,
            "time": 1.0233469009399414,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 1310,
            "time": 1.537527084350586,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 1638,
            "time": -0.09573197364807129,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 1966,
            "time": 1.5337560176849365,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4178,
            "time": 1.044482946395874,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "120d3effda3dce6eed4111b8f96fa42d22ab39fdfca5686c9ab2efea3883cf9f",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "8dcfb3643baddf552bfc6636e1ba19bd30806d11fcb527550148986aa1b1bd80",
    "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.
    Screenshot of Start Scan button
  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.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\program files (x86)\digital communications\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.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  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.
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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5ad4e18d1ccb62ecd881aa8a3e96108a2
SHA2569c84c22000de947c0551c46f04a1ee6f1e8d412aa3eefeb4533d13d144dbf583

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