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The application key.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 25 anti-malware scanners. This is a malicious Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin-mining malware is designed to force computers to generate Bitcoins for cybercriminals' use and consumes computing power.
MD5:
46afc46fbdbb61182514deabde61dd00

SHA-1:
9ad6f1e11ee9f5e23671d860162dd171f56a7b31

SHA-256:
d54624dbde6bfd85f45afab1b64982dfbe0dac390e70cd4eed1c0b83b7bb1ed8

Scanner detections:
25 / 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:
4/26/2024 12:27:38 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.43634
804

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.CoinMiner
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.BitCoinMiner
2014.08.06

avast!
Win32:Agent-ATUW [Trj]
2014.9-141122

AVG
CoinMiner
2015.0.3282

Baidu Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.CoinMiner
4.0.3.141122

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.43634
1.0.20.1630

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
19098

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.43634
8.14.11.22.08

ESET NOD32
Win32/CoinMiner.QR (variant)
8.10210

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/CoinMiner.QR!tr
11/22/2014

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.43634
11.2014-22-11_7

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.43634
14.11.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.CoinMiner
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.182.12966

McAfee
Artemis!46AFC46FBDBB
5600.6938

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.43634
15.0.0.978

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.MulDrop5.daonzb
0.28.2.61349

Norman
Suspicious_Gen5.AQOZU
11.20141122

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.11.22.08

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.713
1.0.0.1015

Sophos
Mal/Generic-S
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0EGN14
7.2.326

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0EGN14
10.465.22

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
31966

File size:
92 KB (94,208 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\key.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/13/2014 5:15:39 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:YBRkpj7ggGRB2HCL6QTsCDQsb3RBtKg+1hH+2dnombk8NvlfAc:aq7gnB2HCL9dssb3WHhnbhlfAc

Entry address:
0x86AF

Entry point:
E8, DB, 36, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, C1, 8B, 4D, 08, C7, 00, 6C, 23, 41, 00, 8B, 09, 89, 48, 04, C6, 40, 08, 00, 5D, C2, 08, 00, 8B, 41, 04, 85, C0, 75, 05, B8, 74, 23, 41, 00, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 74, 2D, 56, FF, 75, 08, E8, 96, 37, 00, 00, 8D, 70, 01, 56, E8, 29, F5, FF, FF, 59, 59, 89, 47, 04, 85, C0, 74, 11, FF, 75, 08, 56, 50, E8, 14, 37, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, C6, 47, 08, 01, 5E, 5F, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 8B, FF, 56, 8B, F1, 80, 7E, 08, 00, 74, 09, FF...
 
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Entropy:
6.3471

Code size:
67 KB (68,608 bytes)

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