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gotoeupdate.exe

Luhong Han

The application gotoeupdate.exe by Luhong Han has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named GotoeUpdateTaskMachineCore triggered by a time event. While running, it connects to the Internet address server-52-84-7-129.ord54.r.cloudfront.net on port 443.
Publisher:
Luhong Han  (signed and verified)

MD5:
29be6528a28565620d439bda4bdb079f

SHA-1:
e3dd8e8093b28b78d87750d1b54ac2e5f72bbf41

SHA-256:
b75364a86af541ab2e9123e30172a1332f356f5288c8f3e2c211076c10bb65ed

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
6/26/2025 2:13:26 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/Obfuscated.NHQ trojan
6.3

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Updater (M)
16.9.20.13

File size:
633.4 KB (648,576 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\gotoe\update\gotoeupdate.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Luhong Han

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
8/25/2016 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/2/2017 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Luhong Han, OU=Individual Developer, O=No Organization Affiliation, L=Beijing, S=Beijing, C=CN

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
5B6E079642058BAFFA2482A9042380F2

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/26/2016 5:13:03 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:hPIjnQu1R742XGs33CxuiPJPiziuDLjd6gfHYHKW:hMQu11cJPizRDnd6gPE/

Entry address:
0x4F8F4

Entry point:
E8, CC, 05, 00, 00, E9, 8E, FE, FF, FF, FF, 25, DC, 73, 47, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 70, 60, 49, 00, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 70, 60, 49, 00, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, F0, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45...
 
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Code size:
471.5 KB (482,816 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
GotoeUpdateTaskMachineCore

Trigger:
Time


The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to server-52-84-7-129.ord54.r.cloudfront.net  (52.84.7.129:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-37-139-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.37.139.27:80)

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