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hwidgen.exe

The executable hwidgen.exe has been detected as malware by 9 anti-virus scanners. This is a trojan Bot that uses IRC to communicate with a comand and control network. The Trojan drops other malicious software and opens a backdoor on the infected computer and will run automatically on each boot.
MD5:
151e71890e3a6cc687a25140cd4b52cd

SHA-1:
06c522655b57d6f7ef50c9df66b909c112da9a00

SHA-256:
95499543fb85bfae2fd63a0347d3ff56d3f94cb8810c3847a5b3c32fda2d6d08

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Malware

Explanation:
Part of a backdoor IRC bot network.

Analysis date:
5/7/2024 8:19:34 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Crypt.TPM.Gen
8.3.3.4

avast!
Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]
2014.9-170316

Baidu Antivirus
Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500
4.0.3.17316

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAutoB
1.3.0.8876

ESET NOD32
Win32/Packed.Themida suspicious (variant)
11.15079

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.10.4.22690

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM19.1.0000.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1120

Rising Antivirus
Malware.Heuristic!ET#96% (rdm+)
23.00.65.17314

VIPRE Antivirus
Backdoor.Win32.Ircbot.gen
56612

File size:
1.2 MB (1,214,464 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/5/2017 1:43:00 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
5.12

Entry address:
0x335000

Entry point:
57, 89, E7, 53, BB, 04, 00, 00, 00, 81, C7, 18, 74, D6, 0B, 01, DF, 81, EF, 18, 74, D6, 0B, 5B, 83, EF, 04, 87, 3C, 24, 5C, 68, F9, 6C, 00, 00, 89, 14, 24, 89, 34, 24, 89, 04, 24, 68, C7, 15, 00, 00, 89, 04, 24, 89, 1C, 24, E8, 01, 00, 00, 00, CC, FF, 34, 24, 8B, 04, 24, 83, C4, 04, 83, C4, 04, 50, 81, 34, 24, FF, 10, 02, 78, 8B, 1C, 24, 57, 89, E7, 81, C7, 04, 00, 00, 00, 83, C7, 04, 87, 3C, 24, 5C, 81, F3, FF, 10, 02, 78, 57, BF, FF, FF, FF, FF, 05, 8E, 5D, 1A, 62, 29, F8, 2D, 8E, 5D, 1A, 62, 5F, 68, 45...
 
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Entropy:
7.9446  (probably packed)

Code size:
3 KB (3,072 bytes)

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