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updater.exe

Advanced Updater

stronghold.com

The application updater.exe 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.
Publisher:
Caphyon LTD  (signed by stronghold.com)

Product:
Advanced Updater

Version:
2.1

MD5:
7b02a06cde4efb35662adae3e379fde1

SHA-1:
b77ab593c1827a28552a1274b515c9a66c5a93e6

SHA-256:
171e0602ffb04be9a2501c509fa83a279011bf69f9528c22f87462be92decc5d

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:
4/23/2024 6:32:32 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.8.6.11

File size:
376.9 KB (385,904 bytes)

Product version:
2, 1, 0, 0

Copyright:
(c) Caphyon LTD. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
updater.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\strongvault online backup\updater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
stronghold.com

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/19/2012 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/9/2013 3:59:59 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:
5B247C1E31558626D242B27243C03876

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/26/2012 3:53:13 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:PrnZeA47KObYSYbjgBILwELCirVyG7+3/vdYjd3UDx4QCg3t0:PYuOb3OjgBIvprVk3/wdU40G

Entry address:
0x1016B

Entry point:
E8, C9, 71, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, 68, E0, 01, 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, 44, C0, 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, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 18, 53, 8B, 5D...
 
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Entropy:
6.1530

Code size:
205 KB (209,920 bytes)

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