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Search Module Ltd.

The application smu.exe, “Search Module Update Service” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Search Module Update”. While running, it connects to the Internet address server-205-251-251-203.jfk5.r.cloudfront.net on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Search Module Ltd.

Product:
W

Description:
Search Module Update Service

Version:
2, 3, 15, 1738

MD5:
31ad42438680e097b674ea3048d8078a

SHA-1:
155fcedb96cf867f98ae5eeaf5dfbb7f8855a187

SHA-256:
691e7ac04026dc6a1fbc536bca96374480e76c8b0b6db56648615ff2adb375fe

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/18/2024 1:26:06 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win64/SBWatchman.A potentially unwanted (variant)
9.12377

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Search.Toolbar.Meta (M)
15.10.9.2

File size:
2.8 MB (2,889,728 bytes)

Product version:
2, 3, 15, 1738

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

Original file name:
smu.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win64 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\common files\goobzo\gbupdate\smu.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/8/2015 8:38:32 AM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win64

Subsystem:
Windows Console

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:aAiQJah0QAKRQlbEnGZtVjtIex/2CkrpHZ+rRc4vyrxH2+TioDyAgPRCX:Jah0djdXAg

Entry address:
0x11467C

Entry point:
48, 83, EC, 28, E8, 07, 1F, 01, 00, 48, 83, C4, 28, E9, 42, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, 48, 8B, C4, 48, 89, 58, 18, 48, 89, 70, 20, 48, 89, 50, 10, 48, 89, 48, 08, 57, 41, 56, 41, 57, 48, 83, EC, 30, 4D, 8B, F9, 45, 8B, F0, 48, 8B, F2, 48, 8B, F9, 33, DB, 89, 58, DC, 89, 58, D8, 41, 3B, DE, 7D, 16, 48, 8B, CF, 41, FF, D7, 48, 03, FE, 48, 89, 7C, 24, 50, FF, C3, 89, 5C, 24, 24, EB, E5, C7, 44, 24, 20, 01, 00, 00, 00, 48, 8B, 5C, 24, 60, 48, 8B, 74, 24, 68, 48, 83, C4, 30, 41, 5F, 41, 5E, 5F, C3, CC, 48, 8B, C4, 4C...
 
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Entropy:
6.2180

Code size:
1.9 MB (2,041,856 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Search Module Update

Service name:
SMUpd

Type:
Win32OwnProcess


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-38-202.jfk1.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.38.202:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-205-251-251-203.jfk5.r.cloudfront.net  (205.251.251.203:80)

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