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browsercleaner.exe

PC Browser Cleaner

PC Cleaners Inc.

The application browsercleaner.exe by PC Cleaners has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from pccleaner.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
PC Cleaners  (signed by PC Cleaners Inc.)

Product:
PC Browser Cleaner

Version:
10.0.0.0

MD5:
65127738b0069eebaa8fd0aecad3f498

SHA-1:
42f6cb3033319ed788e6adc790f062eeb06c4b8e

SHA-256:
d71785e44d51c23ee1e476d888b611070e44fc5abfb8b47bbe4b87dd6740c5a5

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 11:49:56 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PCCleaner.Installer.Meta (M)
16.6.10.14

File size:
3.6 MB (3,807,440 bytes)

Product version:
10.0.0.0

Copyright:
(c) PC Cleaners. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
PCSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\browsercleaner.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
PC Cleaners Inc.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/23/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/25/2014 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=PC Cleaners Inc., OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=PC Cleaners Inc., L=Newport Beach, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0D8D6A63396D197575990A769C1CC0C5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/10/2013 3:46:47 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:1JW0bahO8j5LFqsWmUMyLArz1duxxSCkx1peZnEn8b2w01kBAP04q8IqgxjUU:1Y0bahO8WMEZcQ1EU2w01kB6zq8vgjr

Entry address:
0x47CD960

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 40, 83, 04, 8D, BE, 00, D0, BC, FB, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.9167

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
3.6 MB (3,776,512 bytes)

The file browsercleaner.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://pccleaner.com/BrowserCleaner.exe

http://pc-cleaners.com/BrowserCleaner.exe

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