Did you just stumble upon a download or a file on your computer that is digitally signed by Pavel Yosifovich? Some of the security products refers to the detected files as Malicious and generic.ml. The detection rate for the Pavel Yosifovich files collected here is 3%. Please read on for more details.
You'll probably notice Pavel Yosifovich when clicking to run the file. The publisher name shows up as the "Verified publisher" in the UAC dialog as the screengrab shows:
You can view additional details from the Pavel Yosifovich certificate with the following steps:
Here's a screenshot of a file digitally signed by Pavel Yosifovich:
As you can see in the screenshot above, Windows reports that "This digital signature is OK". This means that the file has been published by Pavel Yosifovich and that no one has tampered with the file.
If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot 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, and so on. You can also examine the address for Pavel Yosifovich, such as the street name, city and country.
DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA has issued the Pavel Yosifovich certificates. You can also examine the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above.
The following are the Pavel Yosifovich files I've gathered, thanks to the FreeFixer users.
Detection Ratio | File Name |
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2/66 | kobjexp.sys |
2/67 | kobjexp.sys |
Here is the detection names for the Pavel Yosifovich 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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APEX | Malicious |
Paloalto | generic.ml |
Zillya | Trojan.Agent.Win32.1508532 |
The detection percentage is based on the fact that I've collected 133 scan results for the Pavel Yosifovich files. 4 of these scan reports came up with some sort of detection. You can review the full details of the scan reports by examining the files listed above.
The analysis is done on certificates with the following serial numbers: