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mcmsg.dll

Awareness Technologies, Inc.

The module mcmsg.dll by Awareness Technologies has been detected as adware by 19 anti-malware scanners.
Publisher:
Awareness Technologies, Inc.  (signed and verified)

Version:
8, 2, 22, 1125

MD5:
61f19b705abc5a6d15d4d5208439de66

SHA-1:
6bf6758a0382b8b10825463798f872dff7d21960

SHA-256:
bf5dae5c9927a5393a3f7a4316b3b1632bb011e6fa6e5dfd9f57b1a837874966

Scanner detections:
19 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
The software cotains keystroke monitoring/logging capablities which may or may not be installed without the user's knowledge.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 1:26:21 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Keylogger.WebWatcher.36
799

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/MonitorTool.Gen
7.11.158.164

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Keylogger.WebWatcher.36
1.0.20.1660

Dr.Web
Trojan.Siggen5.47621
9.0.1.0332

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Keylogger.WebWatcher.36
8.14.11.28.01

ESET NOD32
Win32/WebWatcher (variant)
8.10051

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/WebWatcher
11/28/2014

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Keylogger
11.2014-28-11_6

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Keylogger.WebWatcher.36
14.11.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan.Win32.Skillis
t3scan.1.6.1.0

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:HEUR:Monitor.Win32.WebWatcher
14.0.0.2880

McAfee
Artemis!61F19B705ABC
5600.6933

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Keylogger.WebWatcher.36
15.0.0.996

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.WebWatcher.crcwua
0.28.0.60577

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Application.Keylog.050
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.AwarenessTechnologies.F
14.11.28.1

Sophos
Generic PUA GL
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0705
7.2.332

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
31012

File size:
226.3 KB (231,744 bytes)

Product version:
8, 2, 22, 1125

File type:
Dynamic link library (Win32 DLL)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\webwatcherv8\mcmsg.dll

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Awareness Technologies, Inc.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/24/2014 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/23/2017 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Awareness Technologies, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Awareness Technologies, Inc.", L=Westport, S=Connecticut, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
3AE6606F497A5293319BA52D6D589F30

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/2/2014 6:38:09 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:pDzz5AJohoIY9XbI4lfuzN3Jlx+dhxyqI63BkIV6DBHkQz4pbzeXChxw/cQd6XU:pDzz/N3JG71kIV6DBbzhq4td6E

Entry address:
0x12D4A

Entry point:
83, 7C, 24, 08, 01, 75, 05, E8, B6, 6F, 00, 00, FF, 74, 24, 04, 8B, 4C, 24, 10, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, E8, ED, FE, FF, FF, 59, C2, 0C, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, FF, 75, 0C, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 88, E4, FF, FF, 8B, 45, F0, 83, B8, AC, 00, 00, 00, 01, 7E, 13, 8D, 45, F0, 50, 6A, 04, FF, 75, 08, E8, 0A, 70, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, 10, 8B, 80, C8, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 4D, 08, 0F, B6, 04, 48, 83, E0, 04, 80, 7D, FC, 00, 74, 07, 8B, 4D, F8, 83, 61, 70, FD, C9, C3, 83, 3D, 7C, BD, 02, 10, 00, 75, 12, 8B, 44, 24, 04, 8B, 0D, B8...
 
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Entropy:
6.2635

Code size:
132 KB (135,168 bytes)

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