Versions

20.5.0.28	0.82%
20.4.0.40	21.72%
20.3.1.22	9.02%
20.3.0.36	9.43%
20.2.1.22	10.25%
20.2.0.19	16.80%
20.1.0.24	0.82%
19.9.1.14	9.02%
19.9.0.9	15.98%
19.8.0.14	0.82%
19.7.1.5	0.82%
19.7.0.9	0.82%
19.6.2.10	0.41%
19.5.0.145	0.41%
19.2.0.10	0.41%
19.1.0.28	1.64%
19.0.0.128	0.82%

Warning 8 antivirus scanners has detected malware in various versions of WSCStub.exe.

There are 17 versions of wscstub.exe in the wild, the latest version being 20.5.0.28. wscstub.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. A job within the Windows Task Scheduler is added to execute this process of a specific schedule during installation of the program. The average file size is about 138.14 KB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to Symantec Corporation by VeriSign. The programs Norton Internet Security, Norton 360 and Norton AntiVirus have been observed as installing specific variations of wscstub.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0001% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 1.59 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 6.76 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 18 Bytes per minute for reads and 32 Bytes per minute for writes.

Norton Internet Security, by Symantec Corporation, is a PC program that provides malware prevention and removal during subscription period and uses signatures and heuristics to identify viruses, trojans and other malware. Norton Internet Security features include a email spam filtering, personal firewall, and phishing protection.

Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 8 of them detected the following malware.