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pcspeedup.exe

PC Speed Up

Speedchecker Limited

The application pcspeedup.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. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The file has been seen being downloaded from pcspeedup-7ff.kxcdn.com.
Publisher:
Speedchecker Limited

Product:
PC Speed Up

Version:
3.8.3.0

MD5:
6ba38104c71ddea8dfd8c682b3461eac

SHA-1:
eb46bb3cccd32f1cf470d4bb7fd9815878e67b71

SHA-256:
9448ebacba26290849e2c71719469f0114fd578a9bd7f3e424a2149e762411e3

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/1/2024 9:00:44 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SpeedChecker.Optional.Installer.Meta (L)
16.3.2.6

File size:
3.8 MB (3,973,120 bytes)

Product version:
3.8.3.0

Copyright:
Copyright © Speedchecker Limited 2009-2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/20/2011 3:16:50 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:5kqSLIUyZnxQAENVb72e4UUsXTdNW2CurxpvhDHWh2W:53SEB2AK7UsXTGpC1Whz

Entry address:
0x16478

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, B0, 52, 41, 00, E8, AC, 03, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 45, 6B, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 01, 6B, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, AB, 41, 00, E8, 4E, EC, FF, FF, E8, F5, E7, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, 7F, 84, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, AC, D6, 41, 00, E8, E2, E9, FE, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, AC, D6, 41, 00, B2, 01...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
84 KB (86,016 bytes)

The file pcspeedup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://pcspeedup-7ff.kxcdn.com/.../pcspeedup.exe

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