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Red Dog Media, Inc.

The application update.exe, “PC Utility Kit Installer” by Red Dog Media 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.
Publisher:
Red Dog Media  (signed by Red Dog Media, Inc.)

Description:
PC Utility Kit Installer

Version:
3.2.15.0

MD5:
93e51115a87d7ed4cc07266febba97b9

SHA-1:
85656e79be1983c5765941ef769377e71ddac1ee

SHA-256:
9f66a98d121442ca31b0c96cdb83cdfb1ecf08be2578c9c915623836c446fb25

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 8:32:52 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.Installer
15.4.16.0

File size:
6 MB (6,329,768 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 Red Dog Media

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\update.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Red Dog Media, Inc.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/9/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/9/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Red Dog Media, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Red Dog Media, Inc.", L=Henderson, S=Nevada, 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:
190FBF70C24A707672EE530C4AB3FC30

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2012 1:19:59 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:EhTV11IxgzI6OG/Uo0iMAOo4WAmp4n1ppeMdClqSCqSETM5WJxLCvWmlPzc2Cw:E17I6Oo0iM7FWX2cMmaqpYgTGvllo2

Entry address:
0x39E3

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, 91, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 37, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 19, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 07, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9985

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

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