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WriteMiniDump.exe

Steam

Valve Corporation

The executable WriteMiniDump.exe, “Win32 MiniDump Helper” has been detected as malware by 35 anti-virus scanners. Infected by an entry-point obscuring polymorphic file infector which will create a peer-to-peer botnet and receives URLs of additional files to download.
Publisher:
Valve Corporation

Product:
Steam

Description:
Win32 MiniDump Helper

Version:
1.0.1255.558

MD5:
2c60cec72defc7bc114c0012fbfe93f3

SHA-1:
6894356cd5d48ded9ec36328611ce0ccf1bfa019

SHA-256:
545172d264063e32aa5fef23581a82fd1316f9cc9184f3ee93795ce854c6f256

Scanner detections:
35 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

Explanation:
The file is infected by a polymorphic file infector virus.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 6:16:42 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
6217246

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.BL
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
2015.04.01

avast!
Win32:Sality
150319-1

AVG
Win32/Sality
2014.0.4311

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.1541

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.455

Bkav FE
W32.Sality.PE
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.gen
21608

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.30
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
5.13.68

G Data
Win32.Sality
15.4.25

IKARUS anti.virus
Virus.Win32.Sality
t3scan.1.8.9.0

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.202.15449

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.543

McAfee
Virus.W32/Sality.gen.z
16.8.708.2

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.195.519.0

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
16.0.0.273

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.beygb
0.30.8.659

Norman
Win32.Sality.3
03.12.2014 13:20:04

nProtect
Virus/W32.Sality.D
15.04.01.01

Panda Antivirus
W32/Sality.AA
15.04.01.06

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
4.15.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Win32.KUKU.kt!1591113
23.00.65.15330

Sophos
Mal/Sality-D
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.0.11524

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.RL
7.2.91

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.RL
10.465.01

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakc
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
38950

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.Gen.A[h]
2014.3.20.0

Zillya! Antivirus
Virus.Sality.Win32.20
2.0.0.2123

File size:
345.8 KB (354,088 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
© Copyright 2000-2003 Valve Corporation All rights reserved.

Original file name:
WriteMiniDump.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\steam\writeminidump.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/3/2012 10:17:24 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
3072:u9x3dGKCbyyDAS9RlLL0ckuBFX7UJhlad9QjhFu6ojXmkQwnDqYZyYnjJ8tbOdLc:uv3d/c7lkMFwJhu9yajCUXYVAtm//1t

Entry address:
0x1AC18

Entry point:
04, FA, 81, EB, 6E, 21, A8, 0D, 84, E6, 04, C2, 87, F1, 0F, B6, F6, C6, C1, F8, 86, E9, 84, E2, BB, ED, 8E, CE, 55, F2, 2B, F7, 22, CA, FE, C9, 88, D2, FE, CC, 8B, D5, 89, C8, 4F, 85, C1, B1, EC, E8, 1B, 00, 00, 00, 85, F3, 0F, B6, D7, 48, 84, C1, 1D, 77, 69, D8, 95, 20, EC, 1B, CA, 32, D6, 1B, E9, 81, FE, 76, 15, 00, 00, 88, FD, 80, F8, AF, 0F, AF, C5, F3, 69, FE, ED, 7C, 82, A0, 0F, B6, C5, 8D, 1D, 1B, 73, E6, FF, 0F, BE, CC, FE, C0, 81, C3, 70, 50, 0C, 00, 33, CD, BF, 3A, 3A, 1B, 7E, 87, D3, 70, 0C, 0F...
 
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Code size:
216 KB (221,184 bytes)

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