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pcav.exe

PC Antivirus Pro

PC Cleaner Inc.

The application pcav.exe by PC Cleaner has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.google.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
PC Cleaners  (signed by PC Cleaner Inc.)

Product:
PC Antivirus Pro

Version:
10.0.0.0

MD5:
be9677509d71ffee0b01d1b2579b7457

SHA-1:
cfa21a80eb1aa6c23525582029be9bfd7a5f7d8b

SHA-256:
c12e94b4094677060614f53a6c3c8b5c9861fe9db5dd62fa5ec91c787bcda5bb

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 9:12:19 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PCCleaner.Installer.Meta (L)
16.6.10.14

File size:
6.5 MB (6,854,040 bytes)

Product version:
10.0.0.0

Copyright:
(c) 2016 PC Cleaners. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
PCSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\pcav.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
PC Cleaner Inc.

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/10/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/10/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=PC Cleaner Inc., O=PC Cleaner Inc., L=Laguna Niguel, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
3D4B99D267157B4AE7602BBCE79FE9DE

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/11/2015 4:48:00 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:d/hoqF0I3CF5vOYUSuBeOLR7Mr9Su8v6QFrQE:dppF0wCF5WYUUOILAQE

Entry address:
0x1185040

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 60, F4, 00, 8D, BE, 00, B0, 4B, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8032

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
6.3 MB (6,553,600 bytes)

The file pcav.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

https://www.google.com/url?hl=fr&q=http://.../PCAV.exe&source=gmail&ust=1471441011845000&usg=AFQjCNEvtn6rdY8TyVsZIQ0hNmyvGzmnTg

http://pc-cleaners.com/PCAV.exe

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