admatching.exe

Metablog New Issue 응용 프로그램

Korea Contents Network

The application admatching.exe by Korea Contents Network has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘AdMatching’.
Publisher:
Korea Contents Network  (signed and verified)

Product:
Metablog New Issue 응용 프로그램

Version:
1, 0, 0, 1

MD5:
df2bdead526ed266d93226260f6fee3a

SHA-1:
8744d144dcaad120e8d2771313881df38f79c7d2

SHA-256:
fe916c22f840aac6de82751a845889bef3174e184fd26a7b391bc3d673010ad5

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:51:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.KoreaContentsNetwork (M)
16.2.14.6

File size:
141.1 KB (144,528 bytes)

Product version:
1, 0, 0, 1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2011

Original file name:
Metablog New Issue

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\admatching\admatching.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/7/2012 9:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/8/2013 8:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Korea Contents Network, O=Korea Contents Network, L="Seocho gu ", S=Seoul, C=KR

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
3C3FB7F3F4B4598823CE40D67CCA7266

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/6/2012 12:42:30 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:r5s7BlytpTAqZhr+FyIYK5ICHbjgAk+qdMpxeQ0r7:iytp8EUFykXYNCpUQ0f

Entry address:
0x15548

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, D0, 9D, 41, 00, 68, D4, 56, 41, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 68, 53, 56, 57, 89, 65, E8, 33, DB, 89, 5D, FC, 6A, 02, FF, 15, 24, 94, 41, 00, 59, 83, 0D, 70, 05, 42, 00, FF, 83, 0D, 74, 05, 42, 00, FF, FF, 15, 28, 94, 41, 00, 8B, 0D, 54, 05, 42, 00, 89, 08, FF, 15, 2C, 94, 41, 00, 8B, 0D, 50, 05, 42, 00, 89, 08, A1, 30, 94, 41, 00, 8B, 00, A3, 6C, 05, 42, 00, E8, 1C, 01, 00, 00, 39, 1D, 48, FD, 41, 00, 75, 0C, 68, D0, 56, 41, 00, FF, 15, 80, 94...
 
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Entropy:
5.8979

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0

Code size:
96 KB (98,304 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
AdMatching

Command:
C:\Program Files\admatching\admatching.exe


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