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guiminer-20110501.exe

7-Zip

Igor Pavlov

The application guiminer-20110501.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 13 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the 7z Setup installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. This is a malicious Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin-mining malware is designed to force computers to generate Bitcoins for cybercriminals' use and consumes computing power. The file has been seen being downloaded from cloud.github.com.
Publisher:
Igor Pavlov

Product:
7-Zip

Description:
7z SFX

Version:
4.65

MD5:
5c40990dbae70347e37ccdd4ca10081f

SHA-1:
43b8c9bb52d4d8d75bba4fb06a22a3995e5c4874

SHA-256:
dece163936f6c222e30c70fa8ee186f89f613cc9e1f93afd5110015c5e148c6d

Scanner detections:
13 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
The program will mine for BitCoins using the computer's GPU in the background and may be installed and run without the user's knowledge.

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 10:55:40 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:PUP-gen [PUP]
2014.9-140325

Dr.Web
Tool.BtcMine.80
9.0.1.084

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Barys.7801
8.14.03.25.04

ESET NOD32
Win32/BitCoinMiner (variant)
8.9544

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.176.11451

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner
14.0.0.4117

Malwarebytes
Riskware.BitCoinMiner
v2014.03.25.04

McAfee
Artemis!5C40990DBAE7
5600.7180

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.BitCoinMiner.ugvbc
0.28.0.58394

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.14964616!345392662
23.00.65.14323

Sophos
Generic PUA ED
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner
27382

File size:
6.9 MB (7,276,915 bytes)

Product version:
4.65

Copyright:
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov

Original file name:
7z.sfx.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
7z Setup

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\guiminer-20110501.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/3/2009 2:21:07 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:hiHhNq5kQin1P6U09socBNUCwBnD4aFeiK8t:hi7uCd6Zpnnc5idt

Entry address:
0x1939C

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, 78, CD, 41, 00, 68, 96, 93, 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, F0, C0, 41, 00, 59, 83, 0D, 64, 6C, 42, 00, FF, 83, 0D, 68, 6C, 42, 00, FF, FF, 15, F4, C0, 41, 00, 8B, 0D, 4C, 4C, 42, 00, 89, 08, FF, 15, F8, C0, 41, 00, 8B, 0D, 48, 4C, 42, 00, 89, 08, A1, FC, C0, 41, 00, 8B, 00, A3, 60, 6C, 42, 00, E8, 1C, 01, 00, 00, 39, 1D, 40, 29, 42, 00, 75, 0C, 68, 24, 95, 41, 00, FF, 15, 00, C1...
 
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Entropy:
7.9973

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

Code size:
106.5 KB (109,056 bytes)

The file guiminer-20110501.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://cloud.github.com/downloads/Kiv/.../guiminer-20110501.exe

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