softwareupdater.exe

yu

Hudson Exchange Group, LLC

The application softwareupdater.exe by Hudson Exchange Group has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from appcloudprotected.com.
Publisher:
Hudson Exchange Group, LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
yu

Version:
2.2.0.0

MD5:
f724809a4e1f2cb8884d7c25a14db328

SHA-1:
39202ae1d4bb418fbac79ff1c3eadc528300b9a6

SHA-256:
f6e35869f25f6093b07e4bf0933d8afcfb01ae401abace589f4fe471ea6ff54a

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:
4/30/2024 10:36:09 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.10.15.17

File size:
378.7 KB (387,791 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright 2015

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/11/2015 5:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/1/2016 4:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Hudson Exchange Group, LLC", O="Hudson Exchange Group, LLC", L=Woodcliff Lake, S=New Jersey, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
5B78F4208F4D587B6FA9A6AF8EC8FD12

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/2/2016 8:20:09 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:iaj/eAxiGG+3FEG1OulTeZmayYQDZYaP+ocBlpZ1NTOkLiKw+z1X7pfTXxmhBV+d:DZxiG3FEG1OuhEmnYAknBlpZtzJ7fyBM

Entry address:
0x326C

Entry point:
E9, 61, 27, 00, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C7, 44, 24, 14, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 1C, C6, 44, 24, 18, 20, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 66, 3D, 06, 00, 74, 11, 53, E8, 07, 2E, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, BE, 80, 72, 40, 00, 56, E8, 83, 2D, 00, 00, 56, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, 8D, 74, 06, 01, 38, 1E, 75, EB, 6A, 0D, E8, DB, 2D, 00, 00, 6A, 0B, E8, D4, 2D, 00, 00, A3, 64, 3F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 38, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 6C...
 
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Entropy:
7.8330

Packer / compiler:
Xtreme-Protector v1.05

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file softwareupdater.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://appcloudprotected.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

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