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hohosearch.exe

Xin Zhou

The application hohosearch.exe by Xin Zhou has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The file has been seen being downloaded from d3tufnia3qwp0y.cloudfront.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Xin Zhou  (signed and verified)

Version:
201605161508

MD5:
952a2528e24fc9f8db37d784033b6399

SHA-1:
5c30635c950f1807d9e90baf042e541f7667ddb9

SHA-256:
025c8728bbd70568faa5d79f3bda98e89a25d9e054b39d60f8915518dd9dae16

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/20/2024 7:18:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.XinZhou (M)
16.5.16.15

File size:
765.5 KB (783,856 bytes)

Product version:
201605161508

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Xin Zhou

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/16/2016 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/23/2017 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Xin Zhou, 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:
1DB458BF0A340397741D916531FF4BF9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/16/2016 3:15:54 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:dnxxtpPDroWP7TX9uUbnrSvCl+IYXKg5gfltVMPeW2m3z7MoiTqqBCJ0t3Pq47l5:5tB3oI7TX9lbrCci6lPMPedTqqXqRKYo

Entry address:
0x3DCE0

Entry point:
E8, 1C, B2, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 7F, 0F, B6, 44, 24, 08, 0F, BA, 25, F4, 14, 4C, 00, 01, 73, 0D, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 57, 8B, 7C, 24, 08, F3, AA, EB, 5D, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 7C, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, E0, E9, 4B, 00, 01, 0F, 82, 36, B7, 00, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10, 03, C1, 8B, CA, 83, E2, 03...
 
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Entropy:
6.6100

Code size:
574 KB (587,776 bytes)

The file hohosearch.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 5 URLs.

http://d3tufnia3qwp0y.cloudfront.net/.../nbyes_su.exe

http://d3tufnia3qwp0y.cloudfront.net/.../nbybr_su.exe

http://d3tufnia3qwp0y.cloudfront.net/.../nby_zc.exe

http://d3tufnia3qwp0y.cloudfront.net/.../isr_jq.exe

http://d3tufnia3qwp0y.cloudfront.net/.../clc_jq.exe

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