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upgrade.exe

Zwangi.com

The application upgrade.exe by Zwangi.com has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 28 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer.
Publisher:
Zwangi.com  (signed and verified)

MD5:
5789f0d2153795dab159b946f7f9916e

SHA-1:
6641a0926a4f06c79e2a94bae6d132617ee444f8

SHA-256:
bb63ebea0fa8c8cb00cf356a6220298981b169f5d443e6b63fb7f4449540aad3

Scanner detections:
28 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 12:22:44 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Adware.Zwangi.Gen.5
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Adware/Win32.Zwangi
2013.08.10

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.96.10

avast!
Win32:Zwangi-B [PUP]
2014.9-141128

AVG
Zwangi.P
2015.0.3277

Bitdefender
Gen:Adware.Heur.Ku4@14cgPoji
1.0.20.1660

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt.Win32.AdWare.Zwangi.A
16735

Dr.Web
Adware.Searcher.432
9.0.1.0332

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Adware.Heur.Ku4@14cgPoji
8.14.11.28.01

ESET NOD32
Win32/Adware.OneStep (variant)
8.8668

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/OneStep
11/28/2014

F-Prot
W32/Zwangi.A.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Adware.Heur.Ku4@14cgPoji
11.2014-28-11_6

G Data
Gen:Adware.Heur.Ku4@14cgPoji
14.11.22

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Zwangi
t3scan.2.0.127

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.170.9241

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Zwangi
14.0.0.2880

Malwarebytes
Adware.Agent
v2014.11.28.01

McAfee
Adware-OneStep
5600.6933

Microsoft Security Essentials
BrowserModifier:Win32/Zwangi
1.163.1557.0

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Searcher.bbwkok
0.26.0.53954

Norman
Suspicious_Gen2.AGJHU
11.20141128

Panda Antivirus
Trj/CI.A
14.11.28.01

Rising Antivirus
AdWare.Win32.Agent.dvu
23.00.65.141126

SUPERAntiSpyware
Adware.Zwangi
10211

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.RCBCEB7
7.2.332

Trend Micro
TROJ_SPNR.0BGL11
10.465.28

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
20320

File size:
657.6 KB (673,424 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\windows\temp\{random}.tmp\upgrade.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Zwangi.com

Authority:
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.

Valid from:
4/30/2009 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/1/2011 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Zwangi.com, OU=Secure Application Development, O=Zwangi.com, L=El Segundo, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA, O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd., C=ZA

Serial number:
24BB7C661012777C632783774B9FF5FD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/17/2007 6:48:44 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:hGWDcCHL62hRKbiSxUOhsFmlZofROhKiP53NSHA5rs3To9IX7sBbVzHJJqMV:4QVRKblxUsmm/ofRO/1kyruoILsrzpJh

Entry address:
0x32CE

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 14, 70, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 10, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 74, 72, 40, 00, A3, 10, 48, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 20, FD, 41, 00, FF, 15, 5C, 71, 40, 00, 68, 94, 92, 40, 00, 68, 60, 3F, 42, 00, E8, 49, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, A0, 42, 00, 50, 57, E8, 37, 28, 00, 00, 53, FF, 15, 0C, 71, 40, 00, 80, 3D, 00, A0, 42, 00, 22, A3, 60, 47, 42, 00, 8B, C7, 75, 0A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9845

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

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