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shefalecloudtask.exe

Ding Ruan

The application shefalecloudtask.exe by Ding Ruan has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered daily at a specified time. While running, it connects to the Internet address server-54-192-130-129.ams50.r.cloudfront.net on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Ding Ruan  (signed and verified)

MD5:
fc2028c1f6634f8ec1649ce9348a31f6

SHA-1:
039ba0c2a5d6ec9ed4a9f4fb3ce303735db363d4

SHA-256:
2f599636c12b7cc0e89dc2d371a16a9e8120037dcd2ac31c1a60554b970e118d

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
7/31/2025 7:54:05 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/ELEX.IA potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ELEX.DingRuan (M)
16.5.23.17

File size:
318.6 KB (326,296 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\shefale\shefalecloudtask.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Ding Ruan

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/19/2016 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/14/2017 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Ding Ruan, OU=Individual Developer, O=No Organization Affiliation, L=Beijing, S=Beijing, C=CN

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
5A78C1D8E042256455E165B8A383F5D0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/18/2016 6:00:09 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:0XlTbBJkVQ0rsJr9bUjZCO5Ph4fzHJcAAuCs+Z8sM/z3v7zrhaoM:0BbBJkVQ0mr5UjZF8LJHCxO/77zrhaoM

Entry address:
0x1E7C0

Entry point:
E8, 6C, 53, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 7F, 0F, B6, 44, 24, 08, 0F, BA, 25, A0, C1, 44, 00, 01, 73, 0D, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 57, 8B, 7C, 24, 08, F3, AA, EB, 5D, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 7C, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, 70, A4, 44, 00, 01, 0F, 82, 88, 58, 00, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10, 03, C1, 8B, CA, 83, E2, 03...
 
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Code size:
231.5 KB (237,056 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Shefale Cloud

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 22:19)

Description:
Cloud service of Shefale, query, cache, and so on.


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-51-51.jfk5.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.51.51:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-51-174.jfk5.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.51.174:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-203-219.fra50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.203.219:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-203-133.fra50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.203.133:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-208.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.208:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-235.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.235:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-130-106.ams50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.130.106:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-10.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.10:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-230-18.waw50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.230.18:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-130-243.ams50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.130.243:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-95-19.fra2.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.95.19:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-198.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.198:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-109.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.109:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-3-136.lhr5.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.3.136:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-52-85-63-55.lhr50.r.cloudfront.net  (52.85.63.55:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-95-115.fra2.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.95.115:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-51-92.jfk5.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.51.92:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-51-25.jfk5.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.51.25:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-141.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.141:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-100.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.100:80)

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