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checkupdate.exe

4shared checkUpdate

New IT Limited

This is part of a bundled installer which provides applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application checkupdate.exe, “4shared chekUpdate” by New IT Limited has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
New IT Solutions  (signed by New IT Limited)

Product:
4shared checkUpdate

Description:
4shared chekUpdate

Version:
3.3.5.0

MD5:
c5de7b1bb09818ec0e500848ff19efa3

SHA-1:
329e3fae783253562c7e98fea6870497b0377f61

SHA-256:
a6e7acf7f544205f391b540495b7b746ea2829a8bf7a08844ff0b928a15acee8

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:
4/26/2024 5:48:08 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.New IT Limited (M)
16.12.24.21

File size:
594.5 KB (608,760 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
New IT Solutions

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United Kingdom)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\4shared desktop\checkupdate.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
New IT Limited

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
10/28/2010 9:33:24 PM

Valid to:
10/27/2011 8:30:06 PM

Subject:
CN=New IT Limited, O=New IT Limited, L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, C=CY

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
27DDE55D2F337F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/16/2011 7:00:19 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x6A790

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 48, 8F, 46, 00, E8, 04, D0, F9, FF, A1, 8C, CC, 46, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 4C, C3, FF, FF, A1, 8C, CC, 46, 00, 8B, 00, BA, EC, A7, 46, 00, E8, B7, BD, FF, FF, A1, 8C, CC, 46, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 47, C3, FF, FF, E8, 32, E4, FF, FF, A1, 8C, CC, 46, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 56, C4, FF, FF, E8, 19, A3, F9, FF, 00, B0, 04, 02, 00, FF, FF, FF, FF, 0E, 00, 00, 00, 34, 00, 73, 00, 68, 00, 61, 00, 72, 00, 65, 00, 64, 00, 20, 00, 55, 00, 70, 00, 64, 00, 61, 00, 74, 00, 65, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
5.9583

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
419 KB (429,056 bytes)

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