Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Distributed Computing Experiment - dce.exe - What is it?

Found something called "Distributed Computing Experiment" while testing out some downloads. It appears as dce.exe in the Windows Task Manager. I haven't figured out what it does yet. None of the scanners at VirusTotal detected it.




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  1. issiDecember 29, 2013 at 4:05 PM

    Any news?

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    1. Roger KarlssonJanuary 10, 2014 at 9:48 AM

      The anti-virus programs has started to detect dce.exe as a bitcoin miner:

      AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.BitMiner 20140110
      DrWeb Trojan.BtcMine.267 20140110
      Ikarus Trojan.Msil 20140110
      Kaspersky Trojan.MSIL.BitMiner.cn 20140110
      TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R047H07A914 20140110
      VBA32 TScope.Trojan.MSIL

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