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General Buddy

The application plugin.exe by General Buddy has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
General Buddy  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.6270.37058

MD5:
288d863d67cd487ab7dba7c7348f0680

SHA-1:
320de8e0a3ceff40fe4deda41972b780474d26a2

SHA-256:
146ce9b66fc02dbf348385f532d2b2693dd8d08b26d928b21c86e420d1613675

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 9:34:45 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Yontoo (M)
17.3.3.7

File size:
534.7 KB (547,552 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6270.37058

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\e3f18dd0-c02e-4d93-a6e8-d2ca967914a5\plugins\15\plugin.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
General Buddy

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/1/2016 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
6/2/2017 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=General Buddy, O=General Buddy, L=Los Angeles, S=California, 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:
512E11D3288F6999A9E648674EC86545

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/3/2017 10:05:38 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

Entry address:
0x4141D

Entry point:
E8, 34, D9, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, 3C, F5, 20, 85, 48, 00, 00, 75, 13, 56, E8, 71, 00, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 11, E8, 6B, E6, FF, FF, 59, FF, 34, F5, 20, 85, 48, 00, FF, 15, 04, 02, 47, 00, 5E, 5D, C3, 56, 57, BE, 20, 85, 48, 00, 8B, FE, 53, 8B, 1F, 85, DB, 74, 17, 83, 7F, 04, 01, 74, 11, 53, FF, 15, 18, 01, 47, 00, 53, E8, 47, A9, FF, FF, 83, 27, 00, 59, 83, C7, 08, 81, FF, 40, 86, 48, 00, 7C, D8, 5B, 83, 3E, 00, 74, 0E, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 75, 08, FF, 36, FF, 15...
 
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Entropy:
6.5892

Code size:
416 KB (425,984 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-62-6-168.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.62.6.168:80)

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