Stronghold.exe

Stronghold Online Backup

Stronghold.com

The application Stronghold.exe, “This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Stronghold Online Backup.” 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. This is a self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software.
Publisher:
Stronghold  (signed by Stronghold.com)

Product:
Stronghold Online Backup

Description:
This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Stronghold Online Backup.

Version:
2.0.1

MD5:
6fdf91b558f12078e5f5079c55b4701c

SHA-1:
7d9f1a284062ddec1d2dc7ad08a5f65d374762f0

SHA-256:
59fa5fe582e428aee833774adc1afd85b18082b2d25ea1da7906f4ad0f7f5351

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:
4/24/2024 6:51:34 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Stronghold.Installer (M)
15.11.28.2

File size:
11.4 MB (11,968,192 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) Stronghold

Original file name:
Stronghold.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/9/2013 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/11/2015 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:
563F8FD97216572975CF2CE95F9D059E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/29/2012 2:50:22 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:7PXr5QoEyECPGPzD6tNp4zTezTjsI0LXOsEq+9Kbpbr9nqEncEjRPhErYw:L75QLyCzI8UTIrOsEV9K6lEj5w

Entry address:
0x2F587

Entry point:
E8, 30, 9F, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 55, 08, 53, 56, 57, 33, FF, 3B, D7, 74, 07, 8B, 5D, 0C, 3B, DF, 77, 1E, E8, 88, 3A, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, E8, 11, 3A, 00, 00, 83, C4, 14, 8B, C6, 5F, 5E, 5B, 5D, C3, 8B, 75, 10, 3B, F7, 75, 07, 33, C0, 66, 89, 02, EB, D4, 8B, CA, 0F, B7, 06, 66, 89, 01, 41, 41, 46, 46, 66, 3B, C7, 74, 03, 4B, 75, EE, 33, C0, 3B, DF, 75, D3, 66, 89, 02, E8, 3F, 3A, 00, 00, 6A, 22, 59, 89, 08, 8B, F1, EB, B3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC...
 
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Entropy:
7.9787  (probably packed)

Code size:
268.5 KB (274,944 bytes)

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