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yahoomessenger.exe

Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! Inc.

The executable yahoomessenger.exe 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:
Yahoo! Inc.

Product:
Yahoo! Messenger

Version:
10,0,0,1258

MD5:
21b49c04648652ffd11940dddaf9f005

SHA-1:
85e16290c28b38143187745bf13e7609af67c98d

SHA-256:
6be188361ae6762de84df0304dcd893ba307c008f30a9c3acfb9c109d4363b5d

Scanner detections:
35 / 68

Status:
File is infected by a Virus

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

Analysis date:
4/20/2024 3:59:38 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Win32.Sality.3
922

Agnitum Outpost
Win32.Sality.AP.Gen
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win32/Kashu.E
2014.07.28

Avira AntiVirus
W32/Sality.AT
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:Kukacka
140617-1

AVG
Win32/Sality
2014.0.3986

Baidu Antivirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
4.0.3.14727

Bitdefender
Win32.Sality.3
1.0.20.1040

Bkav FE
W32.Sality.PE
1.3.0.4959

Comodo Security
Virus.Win32.Sality.Gen
18997

Dr.Web
Win32.Sector.21
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Win32.Sality
8.14.07.27.10

ESET NOD32
Win32/Sality.NBA virus
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/Sality.gen2
4.6.5.141

F-Secure
Win32.Sality.3
11.2014-27-07_1

G Data
Win32.Sality
14.7.24

IKARUS anti.virus
Virus.Win32.Sality
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Virus
13.181.12846

Kaspersky
Virus.Win32.Sality
15.0.0.494

McAfee
W32/Sality.gen.z
5600.7056

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.179.1326.0

MicroWorld eScan
Win32.Sality.3
15.0.0.624

NANO AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.yusp
0.28.2.60990

nProtect
Virus/W32.Sality.D
14.07.27.01

Panda Antivirus
W32/Sality.AA
14.07.27.10

Qihoo 360 Security
Malware.QVM19.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
W32.Sality.U
7.14.14.00

Rising Antivirus
PE:Win32.KUKU.kj!1522176
23.00.65.14725

Sophos
Mal/Sality-D
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Sality.AA
37.0.11085

Trend Micro House Call
PE_SALITY.RL
7.2.208

Trend Micro
PE_SALITY.RL
10.465.27

Vba32 AntiVirus
Virus.Win32.Sality.bakb
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4721115
31208

ViRobot
Win32.Sality.N
2011.4.7.4223

File size:
5.1 MB (5,326,136 bytes)

Product version:
10,0,0,1258

Copyright:
(c) 1998-2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\yahoo!\messenger\yahoomessenger.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/20/2010 7:24:52 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
8.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:salXNtSWK8uimIeaLhrPI+juKTgWCqAEXXy:VXNtSWKlOeSRw+jubqNC

Entry address:
0x310AA5

Entry point:
60, 86, F5, 89, D8, 69, D5, 3C, AB, C0, 2D, 4D, 86, CD, 0F, CF, F3, 0F, C0, DF, 84, C3, 3D, B1, 8E, 00, 00, 86, F2, 50, 8D, 35, B8, 57, 1D, FA, 14, 18, C1, EE, B5, 89, F1, BF, DB, 20, 00, C2, 43, 22, C5, C6, C6, 55, FE, C8, C7, C0, 95, A4, D0, B5, BE, 6E, AB, 00, 00, 0F, A5, C7, 81, F6, D1, A4, 00, 00, 10, F2, FF, C0, F2, 81, EE, 38, 0D, 00, 00, 0F, B7, E9, 0F, BF, C9, FF, C9, 04, 58, D3, D2, 0F, C0, CA, 81, EE, 81, F2, FF, FF, C0, FD, AC, 4B, 0F, B7, FF, 81, EE, 80, 0D, 00, 00, 81, FA, 4C, C2, 00, 00, 76...
 
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Entropy:
6.4838

Code size:
3.3 MB (3,436,544 bytes)

Windows Firewall Allowed Program
Name:
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe


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