Is BarMonit.exe safe? Treat it as suspicious.

What We Detected

Five of the 69 antivirus engines that checked it flagged BarMonit.exe. DrWeb reported BackDoor.Zxshell.60 and VBA32 reported Backdoor.Zxshell, while Skyhigh and TrellixENS used generic Artemis trojan labels and DeepInstinct returned a generic malicious result. Only one major antivirus engine identified ZxShell, so the named-family evidence is notable but not a strong major consensus.

Threat Behavior

One completed sandbox run returned clean, but data from the test run mapped token manipulation and recorded injection into WMIADAP.EXE. That behavior can be abused for privilege or execution-context manipulation, although the remaining observed techniques were largely common system-discovery and application activity. The full set of 17 observed hosts was checked against the available host cache, with no malicious or suspicious matches.

Trust and Context

The executable carries a valid signature from Hangzhou Shunwang Technology Co. However, the publisher is not on the curated trusted list and has no established historical sample record here, so the signature does not neutralize the detections or injection evidence. No malware-specific researcher rules, known malicious files it created, packing, or high-entropy code provided additional corroboration.

What To Do Now

Do not run the file on a production system. Keep security software enabled, let your antivirus remove the executable, and obtain a fresh copy from a verified official distribution channel if the software is required; an isolated sandbox or analyst review should be used before any release.