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securitycheck.exe

The application securitycheck.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Self-extracting archive installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.bleepingcomputer.com and multiple other hosts.
MD5:
1482c4a24227126c75a434243e5441c1

SHA-1:
843b768fc9e2f00fc41019ce9a715fda1295b6a9

SHA-256:
810f4b9d4f77b3100e4256059ae8f4c3fd0637bb0129a37b60d758ff77858a0f

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 6:57:57 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

McAfee
Artemis!1482C4A24227
5600.7034

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SecurityCheck.Meta
15.6.12.15

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0816
7.2.230

File size:
834.4 KB (854,417 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Self-extracting archive

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/1/2013 9:08:23 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:8RWNcr8oxnArFNLMsUDw94Y/XN6/VFYtNK8O/vby7SoJxbLYkSWMU2bEgI03mjK0:XNBIAVXy6XjGvby79rb8kSWMU24/jK0

Entry address:
0x1D728

Entry point:
E8, F0, 57, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8D, 45, 08, 50, 8B, F1, E8, 05, FD, FF, FF, C7, 06, E4, 81, 42, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, C7, 01, E4, 81, 42, 00, E9, BA, FD, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, F1, C7, 06, E4, 81, 42, 00, E8, A7, FD, FF, FF, F6, 45, 08, 01, 74, 07, 56, E8, D1, C9, FF, FF, 59, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 57, 8B, 7D, 08, 8B, 47, 04, 85, C0, 74, 47, 8D, 50, 08, 80, 3A, 00, 74, 3F, 8B, 75, 0C, 8B, 4E, 04, 3B, C1, 74, 14, 83, C1, 08...
 
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Code size:
149.5 KB (153,088 bytes)

The file securitycheck.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 6 URLs.

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/dl/b38ba74b94508c6631772b042ddb40f8/541d74e8/windows/security/security-utilities/s/.../SecurityCheck.exe

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_14111480310096&key=59ca95b761b973f7093283b921e56892&libId=cfda787c-e82f-465f-b14c-c485bf9c59bf&loc=http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/529929/uninstall-pilefile-and-oxy/&v=1&out=http://screen317.spywareinfoforum.org/SecurityCheck.exe&ref=https://www.google.com.pk/&title=Uninstall Pilefile and Oxy - Am I infected? What do I do?&txt=<strong class="bbc"><span class="bbc_underline">here</.../strong>

http://filepony.de/.../SecurityCheck.exe

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/dl/6bf81365ce4955cef04a556956f5ded1/541adb47/windows/security/security-utilities/s/.../SecurityCheck.exe

http://screen317.spywareinfoforum.org/SecurityCheck.exe

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/dl/139a8bca91a777967fba56a5db48eb2d/53fc9177/windows/security/security-utilities/s/.../SecurityCheck.exe

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