What is wps.exe?

wps.exe is part of WPS Office and developed by Zhuhai Kingsoft Office Software Co.,Ltd according to the wps.exe version information.

wps.exe's description is "WPS Writer"

wps.exe is digitally signed by Zhuhai Kingsoft Office Software Co., Ltd..

wps.exe is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\kingsoft\wps office\11.2.0.9169\office6\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about wps.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on wps.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameWPS Office
Company nameZhuhai Kingsoft Office Software Co.,Ltd
File descriptionWPS Writer
Internal namewps
Original filenamewps.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright©1988-2020 Kingsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Product version11,2,0,9169
File version11,2,0,9169

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

Product nameWPS Office
Company nameZhuhai Kingsoft Office Software Co.,..
File descriptionWPS Writer
Internal namewps
Original filenamewps.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright©1988-2020 Kingsoft Corpor..
Product version11,2,0,9169
File version11,2,0,9169

Digital signatures [?]

wps.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameZhuhai Kingsoft Office Software Co., Ltd.
Certificate issuer nameDigiCert Assured ID Code Signing CA-1
Certificate serial number02e44d7d1d38ae223b27a02bacd79b53

VirusTotal report

None of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the wps.exe file.

None of the 71 anti-virus programs detected the wps.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": 1588254785.328125,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "This executable has a PDB path",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "pdb_path",
                "ioc": "h:\\syzygy_wpsoptimize\\result\\wps.pdb\u0000ase",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "has_pdb"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".syzygy",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    }
]

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": 3.1492061614990234,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2374,
            "time": 3.072057008743286,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 2702,
            "time": 1.0845441818237305,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3030,
            "time": 3.082789182662964,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3358,
            "time": 1.5150721073150635,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 3686,
            "time": -0.027336835861206055,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 4014,
            "time": 1.583184003829956,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8490,
            "time": 1.100492000579834,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 12682,
            "time": 3.1938071250915527,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "a6e3a9ce51ad544aea5b1c91a8c74aa20b8e9886c7d5cec9f24f82110b4e2c8e",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "8e34f368ac0ee93f52a0395b635874ba71838b3fcade5948e74c6e1fc3fade6e",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5a6cc97d0eab4679cc6c34a3260f97332
SHA2567e3c58e27cd1a3e41dac4dd835e653da6ac19d98c8abee01494d4e14edb19eb9

Error Messages

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

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

wps.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.

WPS Writer has stopped working.

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

wps.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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