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securitycheck.exe

The application securitycheck.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 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:
5c0b8d5373803e1e3f9d79f0de326acb

SHA-1:
d7b19b8b7e6adaceb7f17c06662def06dfd0a7a8

SHA-256:
334cd1229c2d00e9dd08852e51acbc22d405eba57e1c8687f1fce2fc736150d8

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 8:45:21 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.SecurityCheck.Meta (L)
15.7.11.21

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0612
7.2.164

File size:
832.7 KB (852,662 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 3:08:23 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:8RWNcr8oxnACFNLMsUDw94Y/XN6/VFYtNK8O/vby7SoJxbLYkSWMU2bEgI03mjKQ:XNBIAaXy6XjGvby79rb8kSWMU24/jKQ

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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Entropy:
7.8492  (probably packed)

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/8f4db03ccbb37c5adb47d42bf31c7b3f/55679486/windows/security/security-utilities/s/.../SecurityCheck.exe

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

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_143546248738010&key=552a35ca1eb1421626a0f973ac2a90af&libId=ibfx8ojw01001u52000DAbm91qsor&loc=http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/a-setup-exe-malware-virus-pop-up-from-temp-folder-disappears-and-changes.199003/&v=1&out=http://screen317.spywareinfoforum.org/SecurityCheck.exe&ref=https://www.google.com/&title=A setup.exe malware/virus pop-up from Temp folder, disappears and changes - TechSpot Forums&txt=<b><span style="text-decoration: underline">here</.../b>

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/dl/b80dc14fa81e89592cebbdd32d41c67f/558c3346/windows/security/security-utilities/s/.../SecurityCheck.exe

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/dl/1b22cbeff38be1983515bd26c6af3827/557c198b/windows/security/security-utilities/s/.../SecurityCheck.exe

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

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