What is Nidhogg?

Nidhogg is software application developed by Messhof. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 56.57% of installations running this operating system. Nidhogg's installer is typically 168.00 MB in size and installs around 54 files.

Nidhogg is most popular in the United States with 64.99% of installations residing in this country.

Nidhogg adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Nidhogg is known to create 2 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
Nidhogg.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Nidhogg\Nidhogg.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{D009BE82-F7E7-4FF3-A787-45F925EB9355}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 2.

Registry entries:

Steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -silent.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.nidhogggame.com

Support:

https://support.steampowered.com

Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Nidhogg

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/94400

Size:

168.00 MB

Language:

English

Nidhogg Executable Details

Primary executable:

Nidhogg.exe

Name:

Nidhogg

Path:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Nidhogg\Nidhogg.exe

MD5:

f0b1143cc3358106416a1c9f94ac3448

SHA-1:

–

SHA-256:

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File Type

Filename

MD5

DLL

video.dll

72e0a779e6be86cb993ed3f014a45d0c

DLL

SDL2.dll

bee2e38448b57e5cfa9baaeac9043e49

EXE

streaming_client.exe

3755784e790a31464f52e5ef867b1ff5

DLL

vstdlib_s64.dll

206c875d82c0ef4395514356dea5ef4d

DLL

Steam.dll

bc8f2ff072d2c7325d9a069c00957ae0

DLL

vstdlib_s.dll

31f8e2a84098e4b73d3b664176e32934

DLL

tier0_s64.dll

06c0130469a9fa988ff40f9196e5f64f

DLL

tier0_s.dll

87b2c3a6c3d349becf24b22585200bf0

DLL

SteamUI.dll

36e249ce7f521e66a6ddd9a28ea1018f

EXE

steamerrorreporter64.exe

2db6406da24ca374ac0f45044c90b0bc