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productupdate.exe

The application productupdate.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 14 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered daily at a specified time. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program Yahoo! Powered.
MD5:
5fe6435e0916ce99fa3fc588ba7a02e9

SHA-1:
ca64bfad2169557de1c85284438e4fd818c51d6a

SHA-256:
72c4516cac0238da37c7b4a7d03be3790f6059b52cabd835195874b53a83e422

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 5:19:55 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AegisLab AV Signature
Ml.Attribute.Gen!c
2.1.4+

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.DealPly.C1755509
3.8.3.16

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/DealPly.ekyxw
8.3.3.4

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/PUP
2/12/2017

G Data
Win32.Trojan.Agent.QQFOO2
17.2.25

IKARUS anti.virus
Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Gimemo
0.1.3.4

McAfee
PUP-FPD
5600.6131

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
17.02.06.07

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM05.1.0000.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1120

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Downloader.ICDP (L)
17.2.12.0

Rising Antivirus
Malware.Heuristic!ET#97% (rdm+)
23.00.65.17204

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R047C0EBB17
7.2.43

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R047C0EBB17
10.465.12

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
55898

File size:
2.7 MB (2,815,488 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/16/2014 4:02:21 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x27628C

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 54, E4, 66, 00, E8, 78, 7C, D9, FF, A1, C0, BD, 67, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 0C, 5A, F3, FF, 8B, 0D, 38, BB, 67, 00, A1, C0, BD, 67, 00, 8B, 00, 8B, 15, 98, 44, 5B, 00, E8, 0C, 5A, F3, FF, A1, C0, BD, 67, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 64, 5B, F3, FF, E8, 0F, 2D, D9, FF, 8D, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
2.5 MB (2,575,872 bytes)

Program Uninstaller
Program name:
Yahoo! Powered

Uninstall string:
"C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\{d7f9e1a5-f351-8d1d-9ec9-a8f5baa1546d}\uninstall.exe" \uninstall \s \noun \delselfdir


Scheduled Task
Task name:
{6C4D94B7-A275-4777-8F7B-9E5983BA3118}

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 17:17)


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-107-20-201-65.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (107.20.201.65:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-225-212-5.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (54.225.212.5:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-23-21-246-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (23.21.246.202:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to geoip-zlb.vips.scl3.mozilla.com  (63.245.215.82:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-243-162-184.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (54.243.162.184:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-81-192.mia50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.81.192:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-206-14.atl50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.206.14:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-11-106.lhr3.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.11.106:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-3-153.lhr5.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.3.153:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-123-212.dfw50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.123.212:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-52-84-132-135.atl52.r.cloudfront.net  (52.84.132.135:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to s3-1-w.amazonaws.com  (54.231.33.203:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-83-207-70.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (54.83.207.70:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-243-75-224.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (54.243.75.224:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-221-234-215.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (54.221.234.215:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-23-23-110-40.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (23.23.110.40:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-23-21-200-178.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (23.21.200.178:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-184-73-230-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (184.73.230.77:80)

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