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Stronghold Messenger

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The application smessenger.exe, “StrongholdMessenger” by stronghold.com has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘Messenger’.
Publisher:
Stronghold LLC  (signed by stronghold.com)

Product:
Stronghold Messenger

Description:
StrongholdMessenger

Version:
1.0.0.0

MD5:
fbfdd0dbd3a5551dd978f4804d53d596

SHA-1:
c5130774e92649617d5b3d1b65522593f309d6db

SHA-256:
8b8bb0ffa4b94547dfad9362cffac8e5adfe9cb86f7686bd50400ad5db1e684e

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 8:25:58 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.11.26.7

File size:
204.4 KB (209,264 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2012 Stronghold LLC

Original file name:
Messenger.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\strongvault online backup\smessenger.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
stronghold.com

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/19/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/9/2013 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=stronghold.com, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=stronghold.com, L=Newport Beach, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
5B247C1E31558626D242B27243C03876

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/29/2012 3:40:19 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:seqiheM666lcw3N72CJOolCbM666lcw3NJa2:Bmjd3Z2ssjd3x

Entry address:
0x1CC3E

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
4.6726

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
107.5 KB (110,080 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
Messenger

Command:
"C:\Program Files\strongvault online backup\smessenger.exe"


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