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SweetPacksUpdateManager.exe

SweetPacks Update Manager

SweetIM Technologies Ltd

This is part of the Montera web browser toolbar and extension that will modify the browser's default search provider, DNS, and home page functions. The application SweetPacksUpdateManager.exe, “Update Manager for SweetPacks” by SweetIM Technologies has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically execute when any user logs into Windows (through the local user run registry setting) with the name ‘Sweetpacks Communicator’. This file is typically installed with the program Update Manager for SweetPacks 1.0 by SweetIM Technologies Ltd. which is a potentially unwanted software program.

File name:

Publisher:

SweetIM Technologies Ltd. (signed by SweetIM Technologies Ltd)

Product:

SweetPacks Update Manager

Description:

Update Manager for SweetPacks

Version:

1, 1, 0, 8

MD5:

84a878d2d4a84cc73d53733f80fb57ce

SHA-1:

596433e6673e4aea8155a23b60cb4f29c016c68d

SHA-256:

b9b2c5e4b85c55de1aa4f02b30a7113c3013bfcad04366f9f188fef7865e77df

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Adware

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:

4/23/2024 6:12:58 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Perion.Montera (M)

16.2.14.19

File size:

226.3 KB (231,768 bytes)

Product version:

1.1.0.8

Original file name:

SweetPacksUpdateManager.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:

English (United States)

Common path:

C:\Program Files\sweetim\communicator\sweetpacksupdatemanager.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

SweetIM Technologies Ltd

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

1/10/2011 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:

2/5/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=SweetIM Technologies Ltd, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=SweetIM Technologies Ltd, L=Ra'anana, S=Israel, C=IL

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:

5E3BF2B52DA9EA7F1B539A7F018F4EC6

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

8/15/2012 6:06:29 PM

OS version:

5.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

3072:XW9YfVrwbYSuozTHJNt64kS1LLjDkuZSyWHFhJr6QYxdSAJVFy21YKYhmB+OfqiY:mZJNt601PtgJmSAbilxFuO5X

Entry address:

0x1DA1D

Entry point:

E8, A6, 04, 00, 00, E9, 36, FD, FF, FF, CC, FF, 25, 60, 31, 42, 00, FF, 25, 64, 31, 42, 00, FF, 25, 68, 31, 42, 00, FF, 25, 6C, 31, 42, 00, FF, 25, 70, 31, 42, 00, FF, 25, 78, 31, 42, 00, 68, A5, DA, 41, 00, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 89, 6C, 24, 10, 8D, 6C, 24, 10, 2B, E0, 53, 56, 57, A1, 00, 57, 43, 00, 31, 45, FC, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, E8, FF, 75, F8, 8B, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, 89, 45, F8, 8D, 45, F0, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F... 
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Code size:

134 KB (137,216 bytes)

Startup File (All Users Run)

Registry location:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:

Sweetpacks Communicator

Command:

C:\Program Files\sweetim\communicator\sweetpacksupdatemanager.exe

The file SweetPacksUpdateManager.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Update Manager for SweetPacks 1.0 by SweetIM Technologies Ltd.

Update Manager for SweetPacks is designed to monitor and keep the SweetPacks applications automatically up to date. It checks for software updates and automatically downloads and installs them if found.

www.sweetim.com

67% remove it

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