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puttygen.exe

PuTTY suite

Simon Tatham

This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.winscp.net and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Simon Tatham

Product:
PuTTY suite

Description:
PuTTY SSH key generation utility

Version:
Release 0.64

MD5:
876a747c1648d23af3da1b5ae20da83b

SHA-1:
dcbd1ddc9517fbcc9a7b81b7009ca3ee311221ba

SHA-256:
d66694afdb35b139f1a23c463053d63cf458a5fea22b041d0e9f0e1f06a4e7c3

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:
4/24/2024 10:33:13 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Horst.Win32.1
2.0.0.2088

File size:
180 KB (184,320 bytes)

Product version:
Release 0.64

Copyright:
Copyright © 1997-2015 Simon Tatham.

Original file name:
PuTTYgen

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United Kingdom)

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/28/2015 4:34:29 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
7.10

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:vV6aOqIHJiLViaQTULqO8+96qdqCx17pTazZeeOoGTUX72w0Vwd+Tq1JPDlm:N6aOqIHJiLVm89ldqY7piZevoaUW

Entry address:
0x17599

Entry point:
6A, 60, 68, C8, 71, 42, 00, E8, 5F, 42, 00, 00, BF, 94, 00, 00, 00, 8B, C7, E8, 6F, F3, FF, FF, 89, 65, E8, 8B, F4, 89, 3E, 56, FF, 15, 00, E1, 41, 00, 8B, 4E, 10, 89, 0D, 84, A4, 42, 00, 8B, 46, 04, A3, 90, A4, 42, 00, 8B, 56, 08, 89, 15, 94, A4, 42, 00, 8B, 76, 0C, 81, E6, FF, 7F, 00, 00, 89, 35, 88, A4, 42, 00, 83, F9, 02, 74, 0C, 81, CE, 00, 80, 00, 00, 89, 35, 88, A4, 42, 00, C1, E0, 08, 03, C2, A3, 8C, A4, 42, 00, 33, F6, 56, 8B, 3D, D0, E0, 41, 00, FF, D7, 66, 81, 38, 4D, 5A, 75, 1F, 8B, 48, 3C, 03...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v7.0

Code size:
116 KB (118,784 bytes)

The file puttygen.exe has been discovered within the following programs.

X2Go Client for Windows  by X2Go Project
www.x2go.org
About 6% of users remove it
 
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The file puttygen.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 4 URLs.

https://cdn.winscp.net/.../puttygen.exe

ftp://ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk/users/sgtatham/putty-latest/.../puttygen.exe

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/.../puttygen.exe

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.64/.../puttygen.exe

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