What is spmm.exe?

spmm.exe is digitally signed by Clever Security Software Ltd.

spmm.exe is usually located in the 'C:\ProgramData\{827D21CC-A22D-45D6-23CA-451DDAC769BA}\' folder.

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

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

Digital signatures [?]

spmm.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameClever Security Software Ltd
Certificate issuer nameSectigo RSA Code Signing CA
Certificate serial number5b2f9ae57ae8f9f908b7a94e983cb833

VirusTotal report

24 of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the spmm.exe file. That's a 33% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.32765313
AhnLab-V3 Malware/Win32.Generic.C3588632
ALYac Trojan.GenericKD.32765313
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D1F3F581
Avast Win32:DangerousSig [Trj]
AVG Win32:DangerousSig [Trj]
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.32765313
BitDefenderTheta Gen:NN.ZexaCO3.32519.7WXaaaC73eei
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Agent
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.LFDW-8284
Emsisoft Trojan.GenericKD.32765313 (B)
FireEye Trojan.GenericKD.32765313
GData Trojan.GenericKD.32765313
MAX malware (ai score=83)
MaxSecure Trojan.Malware.74721718.susgen
McAfee Artemis!1A2B330180A7
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!Trojan
Microsoft PUA:Win32/SpyrixKeylogger
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.32765313
Panda Generic Malware
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.9ad
VBA32 BScope.Trojan.Delpem
Webroot System.Monitor.Spyrix.Keylogger
24 of the 72 anti-virus programs detected the spmm.exe file.

Sandbox Report

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

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1576072385.5625,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "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": "",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            },
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".adata",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable uses a known packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "packer",
                "ioc": "ASProtect v1.23 RC1",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "peid_packer"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 9,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The binary likely contains encrypted or compressed data indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "entropy": 7.999653794125106,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00080800",
                    "virtual_address": "0x00001000",
                    "entropy": 7.999653794125106,
                    "name": "",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0018b000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 7.955673446344148,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00001000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x0018c000",
                    "entropy": 7.955673446344148,
                    "name": "",
                    "virtual_size": "0x00003000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 7.984602940646536,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00003400",
                    "virtual_address": "0x0018f000",
                    "entropy": 7.984602940646536,
                    "name": "",
                    "virtual_size": "0x00008000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 7.987472593853544,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00003800",
                    "virtual_address": "0x0019d000",
                    "entropy": 7.987472593853544,
                    "name": "",
                    "virtual_size": "0x00004000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 7.518486519722849,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00000200",
                    "virtual_address": "0x001a1000",
                    "entropy": 7.518486519722849,
                    "name": "",
                    "virtual_size": "0x00001000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 7.997285412982134,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00011000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x001a4000",
                    "entropy": 7.997285412982134,
                    "name": "",
                    "virtual_size": "0x00023000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 7.65296142198249,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x00004e00",
                    "virtual_address": "0x001c7000",
                    "entropy": 7.65296142198249,
                    "name": ".rsrc",
                    "virtual_size": "0x00016000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 7.920857863397053,
                "section": {
                    "size_of_data": "0x0004e000",
                    "virtual_address": "0x001dd000",
                    "entropy": 7.920857863397053,
                    "name": ".data",
                    "virtual_size": "0x0004e000"
                },
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "A section with a high entropy has been found"
            },
            {
                "entropy": 0.9994711792702274,
                "type": "generic",
                "description": "Overall entropy of this PE file is high"
            }
        ],
        "references": [
            "http:\/\/www.forensickb.com\/2013\/03\/file-entropy-explained.html",
            "http:\/\/virii.es\/U\/Using%20Entropy%20Analysis%20to%20Find%20Encrypted%20and%20Packed%20Malware.pdf"
        ],
        "name": "packer_entropy"
    }
]

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": 3.0782439708709717,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4318,
            "time": 3.0111758708953857,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4646,
            "time": 1.0164649486541748,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 4974,
            "time": 3.018406867980957,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5302,
            "time": 1.521131992340088,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5630,
            "time": -0.09989309310913086,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 5958,
            "time": 1.5358078479766846,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 14640,
            "time": 1.0374219417572021,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 18832,
            "time": 3.14057993888855,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "75f39af5b6898a4165d2283859a71c50a8e6c231dcf91c3a05d9d5bb3c89b602",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "8f0ef092ea5fb020bdbbdf2d0bf826f9fddae294758b8bc9c388e5bd7bf90288",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandboxScreenshot from the sandbox

spmm.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove spmm.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the spmm.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that spmm.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 spmm.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the spmm.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 spmm.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    C:\ProgramData\{827D21CC-A22D-45D6-23CA-451DDAC769BA}\spmm.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the spmm.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If spmm.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If spmm.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If spmm.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 spmm.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
MD51a2b330180a7eb3b2f3f6bdedf3636f6
SHA25616d1ec034a12faf810be8d3a77892cac3a0952fb89e4011294cb41bb9b89217f

Error Messages

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

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

spmm.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.

spmm.exe has stopped working.

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

spmm.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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