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monhost.exe

Vested Development, Inc

The application monhost.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. While running, it connects to the Internet address anubisnetworks.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Vested Development, Inc

Product:
monhost.exe

Version:
2.2.1.23

MD5:
9408acb0d012920d9284faa1923a909d

SHA-1:
44e9b2ddc3cacd90ceab749b225a59824fab8c5f

SHA-256:
4a8e5daaa7698b519be9b3b4e6d53bc352f0add834417c691019f189c3c2c70a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/16/2024 11:54:29 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Glupteba
17.2.16.7

File size:
622.5 KB (637,440 bytes)

Product version:
2.2.0.2

Copyright:
Copyright © 2016

Original file name:
monhost.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\vdi\shared\product updater\monhost.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/4/1998 7:02:35 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x2FA16

Entry point:
E8, C0, 0A, 00, 00, E9, 8E, FE, FF, FF, FF, 25, B0, E2, 46, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, F2, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, F2, E8, 90, F8, FF, FF, F2, E9, DA, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, EC, 33, CD, F2, E8, 7F, F8, FF, FF, F2, E9, C9, FF, FF, FF, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 84, B0, 48, 00, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.6122

Code size:
435.5 KB (445,952 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to anubisnetworks.com  (195.22.26.248:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 78.244.135.79.in-addr.arpa  (79.135.244.78:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to icebergcone.com  (91.142.85.224:80)

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