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wzUpg.exe

WinZipper

Yang Liu

The application wzUpg.exe by Yang Liu has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. While running, it connects to the Internet address server-52-84-230-32.sfo9.r.cloudfront.net on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Winziper Pvt Ltd.  (signed by Yang Liu)

Product:
WinZipper

Description:
Winzipper upg

Version:
2.0.36.0

MD5:
ef99e93b19d844a4f6e490f9b6833994

SHA-1:
0558986b19dc35de7be99e236038a877d5d6de1f

SHA-256:
7ff6084b7d4af4d4f18f51979c2df76b656af11a8cfab360eff68516e536fd54

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
6/25/2025 1:17:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/ELEX.HW potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Elex.YangLiu.Meta (M)
16.6.22.10

File size:
372.1 KB (381,008 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.36.0

Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2015 Winziper Pvt Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Original file name:
wzUpg.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\tools\wzp\omigazip_patch\wzupg.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Yang Liu

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/17/2016 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/25/2016 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Yang Liu, OU=Individual Developer, O=No Organization Affiliation, L=Beijing, S=Beijing, C=CN

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
7A83EBB920EE081F2CE9FD6AE15A77B1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/18/2016 11:11:51 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:JsxzVLB5klirTHmhyOH38Tp4OMBXMBq4sv4:Oxxl5klifHsa4lB8cv4

Entry address:
0x1B1CC

Entry point:
E8, 85, 98, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 75, 0B, FF, 75, 0C, E8, 7D, E7, FF, FF, 59, 5D, C3, 56, 8B, 75, 0C, 85, F6, 75, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 76, E5, FF, FF, 59, 33, C0, EB, 4D, 53, EB, 30, 85, F6, 75, 01, 46, 56, FF, 75, 08, 6A, 00, FF, 35, DC, D0, 44, 00, FF, 15, A0, 21, 43, 00, 8B, D8, 85, DB, 75, 5E, 39, 05, E0, D0, 44, 00, 74, 40, 56, E8, 8C, 38, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 1D, 83, FE, E0, 76, CB, 56, E8, 7C, 38, 00, 00, 59, E8, A8, 17, 00, 00, C7, 00, 0C, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 5B...
 
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Entropy:
5.5011

Code size:
193 KB (197,632 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communication in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-52-84-230-32.sfo9.r.cloudfront.net  (52.84.230.32:80)

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