Did you just stumble upon a file that has a digital signature from Micro-Star International CO., LTD.? If that's the case, please read on.
You will typically see Micro-Star International CO., LTD. when double-clicking to run the file. The publisher name shows up as the "Verified publisher" in the UAC dialog as the screenshot shows:
You can view the additional details from the Micro-Star International CO., LTD. digital signature with the following procedure:
Here's a screenshot of a file that has been signed by Micro-Star International CO., LTD.:
As you can see in the screenshot above, Windows states that "This digital signature is OK". This means that the file has been published by Micro-Star International CO., LTD. and that no one has tampered with the file.
If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screencap above, you can view all the details of the certificate, such as when it was issued, who issued the certificate, how long it is valid, etc. You can also see the address for Micro-Star International CO., LTD., such as the street name, city and country.
DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA, DigiCert EV Code Signing CA (SHA2), GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2 and GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G3 has issued the Micro-Star International CO., LTD. certificates. You can also examine the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screencap above.
The following are the Micro-Star International CO., LTD. files I have gathered, thanks to the FreeFixer users.
Detection Ratio | File Name |
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1/61 | MSISCMTsk.exe |
1/61 | WMI_Hook_Service.exe |
1/65 | FastBootService.exe |
1/72 | msiregisterservice.exe |
0/57 | muachost.exe |
0/71 | OmApSvcBroker.exe |
0/65 | MSIToastServer.exe |
0/71 | sendevsvc.exe |
0/54 | MSI_Trigger_Service.exe |
0/71 | MSI.CentralServer.exe |
0/56 | msiddrservice.exe |
0/72 | voicecontrol_service.exe |
0/57 | MSI Update Agent.exe |
Here's the detection names for the Micro-Star International CO., LTD. files. I have grouped the detection names by each scanner engine. Thanks to VirusTotal for the scan results.
Scanner | Detection Names |
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Baidu | Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9887 |
Bkav | W32.AIDetectVM.malware1 |
Fortinet | Adware/BrowserFox |
Qihoo-360 | HEUR/QVM10.1.0000.Malware.Gen |
The detection percentage is based on that I've gathered 9680 scan reports for the Micro-Star International CO., LTD. files. 4 of these scan results came up with some sort of detection. If you like, you can view the full details of the scan results by examining the files listed above.
In the analysis on this page I grouped all certificates where the signer name is set to upper and lower case variants of Micro-Star International CO., LTD.. These are the signer names:
The analysis is based on certificates with the following serial numbers: