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uninstall.exe

Chromium

Fuyuan Zhou

The application uninstall.exe, “Chromium Uninstaller” by Fuyuan Zhou has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program Chromium by Chromium Authors.
Publisher:
Fuyuan Zhou  (signed and verified)

Product:
Chromium

Description:
Chromium Uninstaller

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
a7cf0b0ce32aabbea8e01e07f77ba527

SHA-1:
1beff733dc66787ccae7858da7449fcf27653249

SHA-256:
eda0e30e35544d1ffd1a393bb2a496ead9f8ebe2a5100eb925ec15bc784b2dd1

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
6/17/2025 7:30:46 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.7.15.5

File size:
310.9 KB (318,336 bytes)

Product version:
51.0.2704.66

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2016 Chromium Authors

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\chromium\application\uninstall.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Fuyuan Zhou

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
6/30/2016 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/22/2017 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Fuyuan Zhou, 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:
694E0B4980507DB9D7F34C8B076D2070

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/30/2016 6:12:54 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:+Y4DILLg8og7rbyrh4WuzYdaq0k6pPgnjONI68+qyX8QXj+2Fq:+l0Lg8ogXCuWmgj7+qn2Fq

Entry address:
0x15A77

Entry point:
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Code size:
192 KB (196,608 bytes)

Program Uninstaller
Program name:
Chromium

Display publisher:
Chromium Authors

Display version:
51.0.2704.66

Uninstall string:
C:\Program Files\Chromium\Application\uninstall.exe


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