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puttygen.exe

PuTTY suite

Simon Tatham

Publisher:
Simon Tatham

Product:
PuTTY suite

Description:
PuTTY SSH key generation utility

Version:
Development snapshot 2015-10-25.758ac4c

MD5:
9ab363636ef12367063c0426b8b6ad03

SHA-1:
83071b7f0b0ba3184db5367148e5dae03819a067

SHA-256:
9338d92d31848cca1a17afabc730f485529da3b5d6a80109b12826b57472ce19

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Clean  (1 probable false positive detection)

Explanation:
This is mosty likely a false positive detection, the file is probably clean.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 10:54:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Gen
2015.12.02

File size:
212 KB (217,088 bytes)

Product version:
Development snapshot 2015-10-25.758ac4c

Copyright:
Copyright © 1997-2015 Simon Tatham.

Original file name:
PuTTYgen

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United Kingdom)

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/24/2015 7:31:00 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
7.10

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:PuoBen6qXPZGtEKJ1F7XgD5DQ7im7oWw:2oBY6fD5gFDQ7ighw

Entry address:
0x1D799

Entry point:
6A, 60, 68, 48, F6, 42, 00, E8, 8F, 44, 00, 00, BF, 94, 00, 00, 00, 8B, C7, E8, 8F, F2, FF, FF, 89, 65, E8, 8B, F4, 89, 3E, 56, FF, 15, 00, 41, 42, 00, 8B, 4E, 10, 89, 0D, FC, 25, 43, 00, 8B, 46, 04, A3, 08, 26, 43, 00, 8B, 56, 08, 89, 15, 0C, 26, 43, 00, 8B, 76, 0C, 81, E6, FF, 7F, 00, 00, 89, 35, 00, 26, 43, 00, 83, F9, 02, 74, 0C, 81, CE, 00, 80, 00, 00, 89, 35, 00, 26, 43, 00, C1, E0, 08, 03, C2, A3, 04, 26, 43, 00, 33, F6, 56, 8B, 3D, D0, 40, 42, 00, FF, D7, 66, 81, 38, 4D, 5A, 75, 1F, 8B, 48, 3C, 03...
 
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Entropy:
6.8105

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v7.0

Code size:
140 KB (143,360 bytes)

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

http://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/.../puttygen.exe

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