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hotbarsa.exe

Hotbar Search Assistant

Zango

The application hotbarsa.exe by Zango has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically execute when any user logs into Windows (through the local user run registry setting) with the name ‘HotbarSA’.
Publisher:
Zango, Inc.  (signed by Zango)

Product:
Hotbar Search Assistant

Version:
10.2.197.0

MD5:
70e28167c10e88d1ea8b32213119053b

SHA-1:
02075ed1ed2980c219c911e858e9781e796f6b2c

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:
4/25/2024 8:54:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Zango (M)
16.7.31.22

File size:
704.8 KB (721,672 bytes)

Product version:
10.2.197.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2001-2008 Zango, Inc. All rights reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\hotbar\bin\10.2.197.0\hotbarsa.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Zango

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/13/2008 7:30:00 PM

Valid to:
5/12/2010 7:29:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Zango, OU=Zango, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Zango, L=Bellevue, S=Washington, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
1CA00CAEA054614D44D3119B6DB48AD8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/6/2008 8:51:24 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:QkephBHeACP9/1B3MrsrFox7L8YhhjLA8jMeJi73Pad1ld:rehC91BYaoFLfXjLl7JiLP01n

Entry address:
0x6156D

Entry point:
E8, 70, 78, 00, 00, E9, 16, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 44, 24, 08, 8B, 4C, 24, 10, 0B, C8, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 75, 09, 8B, 44, 24, 04, F7, E1, C2, 10, 00, 53, F7, E1, 8B, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, 64, 24, 14, 03, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 08, F7, E1, 03, D3, 5B, C2, 10, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 14, 53, 56, FF, 75, 10, 33, DB, 8D, 4D, EC, 89, 5D, FC, E8, 6E, C2, FF, FF, 8B, 75, F0, 39, 5E, 08, 75, 1F, FF, 75, 0C, FF, 75, 08, E8, A1, 78, 00, 00, 38, 5D, F8, 59, 59, 0F, 84, 86, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 4D, F4...
 
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Code size:
552 KB (565,248 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run)
Registry location:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
HotbarSA

Command:
"C:\Program Files\hotbar\bin\10.2.197.0\hotbarsa.exe"


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