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gencontrol.exe

Gensortium Limited

The application gencontrol.exe, “Gencontrol Remote Control” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 15 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.oldversion.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Gensortium Limited

Description:
Gencontrol Remote Control

Version:
1.1

MD5:
b1b521e2c1e3f265028e4582e371b901

SHA-1:
ab4fe18fbebf5cfccc341ae6009784d3203ad981

SHA-256:
2b69b23929ca66b385209595ce12f8fd8f0e3d752aeb822629d82f28a2959d05

Scanner detections:
15 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 8:43:24 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
Win-AppCare/Gencontrol.353792
2013.12.20

Avira AntiVirus
SPR/Tool.Gencontrol
7.11.125.168

Baidu Antivirus
HackTool.Win32.WinVNC
4.0.3.131224

Bkav FE
W32.Clodc20.Trojan
1.3.0.4677

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/TightVNC
12/24/2013

K7 AntiVirus
Riskware
13.174.10575

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:RemoteAdmin.Win32.WinVNC-based
14.0.0.4573

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.WinVNCbased.bnqos
0.28.0.57029

Norman
WinVNC.F
11.20131224

nProtect
Abuse-Worry/W32.WinVNC-based_Packed.353792
14.01.17.02

Panda Antivirus
Hacktool/Gencontrol
13.12.24.09

Quick Heal
Trojan.Agent.gen
12.13.12.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.1244979B!306485147
23.00.65.131222

VIPRE Antivirus
TightVNC (not malicious)
25524

ViRobot
RemoteApp.WinVNC-based.353792
2011.4.7.4223

File size:
345.5 KB (353,792 bytes)

Product version:
1.1

Copyright:
Copyright © 2003

Original file name:
gencontrol.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win64 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/21/2003 10:06:03 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win64

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.56

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:/u3f28nojtU0DI6l+qsK7bKSKTFqNNnY7QseVviAYzaAYarrA/CNSbK6O:/u3f/ojtUq+qsO+HwfyeVG+gE/k

Entry address:
0xDA580

Entry point:
4D, 5A, 90, 00, 03, 00, 00, 00, 04, 00, 00, 00, FF, FF, 00, 00, B8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 00, 00, 00, 0E, 1F, BA, 0E, 00, B4, 09, CD, 21, B8, 01, 4C, CD, 21, 54, 68, 69, 73, 20, 70, 72, 6F, 67, 72, 61, 6D, 20, 63, 61, 6E, 6E, 6F, 74, 20, 62, 65, 20, 72, 75, 6E, 20, 69, 6E, 20, 44, 4F, 53, 20, 6D, 6F, 64, 65, 2E, 0D, 0D, 0A, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9228  (probably packed)

Code size:
344 KB (352,256 bytes)

The file gencontrol.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/download/.../1.1_gencontrol.exe

http://archive.org/download/.../gencontrol.exe

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