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stronghold_ext.exe

Stronghold Free Manager

stronghold.com

The application stronghold_ext.exe, “Stronghold Free Manager Installer” 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. The program is a setup application that uses the Nullsoft Install System installer.
Publisher:
Stronghold  (signed by stronghold.com)

Product:
Stronghold Free Manager

Description:
Stronghold Free Manager Installer

Version:
1.18.149.149

MD5:
f17c7dfafa35fd2ad61fb16aeb642cc4

SHA-1:
47245d30cca26ce41176724f57e506e95375e6df

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:
4/19/2024 8:52:23 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.stronghold.Installer (M)
15.12.3.6

File size:
1.8 MB (1,842,672 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright Stronghold

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Nullsoft Install System

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\stronghold online backup\stronghold_ext.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
stronghold.com

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/20/2012 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/10/2013 2:59:59 AM

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:
1/5/2010 3:09:32 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.56

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:xTmIlvYsK+ZzdwH9PgbJLycFTw69QdHEEDs9gFxn2BDycyjS/rM4xjvbSy7ptVHG:NQ22H9gNeV64kV902Z3Diy7VHkBPca

Entry address:
0x4044

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 57, 56, 53, 81, EC, AC, 01, 00, 00, E8, 97, 52, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, 01, 80, 00, 00, E8, 43, 4F, 00, 00, 56, C7, 04, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, A6, 52, 00, 00, A3, 88, 5C, 42, 00, 53, C7, 04, 24, 08, 00, 00, 00, E8, 26, 32, 00, 00, A3, 38, 5D, 42, 00, 8D, 85, 84, FE, FF, FF, 51, C7, 44, 24, 10, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 0C, 60, 01, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 08, C7, 44, 24, 04, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 04, 24, A4, B2, 40, 00, E8, D0, 51, 00, 00, 83, EC, 14, C7, 44, 24, 04, A5, B2, 40, 00, C7, 04, 24, 68, 5D...
 
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Entropy:
7.9896  (probably packed)

Code size:
33 KB (33,792 bytes)

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