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amiupdater191.exe

The application amiupdater191.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 12 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named amiupdaterExi triggered by a time event. It bundles adware offers using the Amonetize, a Pay-Per-Install (PPI) monetization and distribution download manager. The software offerings provided are based on the PC's geo-location at the time of install. The file has been seen being downloaded from cds.g8s7f3b7.hwcdn.net and multiple other hosts.
Version:
1.1.4.2

MD5:
dbc9bcbd0726e941ac1158a363fed4dc

SHA-1:
b065218e4f9707d383ad2445b785b7ffb1751ad1

SHA-256:
34d1f7cada9a6b65cbede5b6bd255b92e521fb2566182cd1cd23e75406f75fcb

Scanner detections:
12 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/2/2024 1:24:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Amonetize.1534976.2
8.3.1.6

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.Amonetize
4.0.3.15723

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Mikey.20348
8.15.07.28.12

ESET NOD32
Win32/Amonetize.GA potentially unwanted (variant)
9.11985

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Mikey.20348
11.2015-28-07_3

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Amonetize
14.0.0.1670

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A
v2015.07.23.05

Norman
Gen:Variant.Mikey.20348
11.20150728

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
15.7.27.20

Sophos
Generic PUA NM
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
41424

File size:
1.8 MB (1,898,496 bytes)

Product version:
1.1.4.2

Original file name:
u2.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\amiupdater191.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/21/2015 4:15:24 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:llNur0HqU7VegAwtfz8G7g9qJNiEg/L8Cteb:XNurE7dNgIJ8Egz8C0

Entry address:
0x2FF71

Entry point:
E8, 9C, C8, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, 3C, F5, F0, D1, 46, 00, 00, 75, 13, 56, E8, 91, 00, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 11, E8, 32, 94, 00, 00, 59, FF, 34, F5, F0, D1, 46, 00, FF, 15, 5C, A0, 45, 00, 5E, 5D, C3, E8, E0, 2F, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 0B, FF, 74, 24, 04, 50, FF, 15, 90, A0, 45, 00, 68, FF, 00, 00, 00, E8, DD, 92, 00, 00, 59, C3, 56, 57, BE, F0, D1, 46, 00, 8B, FE, 53, 8B, 1F, 85, DB, 74, 17, 83, 7F, 04, 01, 74, 11, 53, FF, 15, 64, A0, 45, 00, 53, E8, 75, EE, FF...
 
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Code size:
356 KB (364,544 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
amiupdaterExi

Trigger:
Time


The file amiupdater191.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 3 URLs.

http://cds.g8s7f3b7.hwcdn.net/.../Updater.exe

http://d22v5mkwhaawa0.cloudfront.net/.../Updater.exe

http://cds.x3u7n3a7.hwcdn.net/.../Updater.exe

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