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firefoxupdate.exe

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Chao Wei

The application firefoxupdate.exe by Chao Wei has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Update Service(FirefoxU)”.
Publisher:
Chao Wei  (signed and verified)

Product:
Firefox

Version:
50.1.4.418

MD5:
235dfda7b3fd63eb38292a7b4adad7b4

SHA-1:
3abaf3b53c1e7e79dc3c010d3223093b4b2632e2

SHA-256:
69ccfd673723de6086276c65b68af04716d7f327cd3104fa1e4ace3d9a4d8898

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
1/11/2025 1:50:57 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Elex.Chao (M)
17.1.13.15

File size:
180.1 KB (184,439 bytes)

Product version:
50.1.4.418

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2016 Firefox Authors

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\firefox\bin\firefoxupdate.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Chao Wei

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
1/6/2017 5:00:00 AM

Valid to:
8/19/2017 4:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Chao Wei, 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:
67D505EDFAB2041D1650CEEE99102F80

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/9/2017 10:36:49 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x6481

Entry point:
E9, 80, 50, 00, 00, E9, 8E, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, 58, 00, 00, 00, C7, 06, B4, 21, 41, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 83, 61, 04, 00, 8B, C1, 83, 61, 08, 00, C7, 41, 04, BC, 21, 41, 00, C7, 01, B4, 21, 41, 00, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, 25, 00, 00, 00, C7, 06, D0, 21, 41, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 83, 61, 04, 00, 8B, C1, 83, 61, 08, 00, C7, 41, 04, D8, 21, 41, 00, C7, 01, D0, 21, 41, 00, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, F1, 8D, 46, 04, C7, 06, 94, 21, 41, 00, 83...
 
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Entropy:
7.2229

Packer / compiler:
Xtreme-Protector v1.05

Code size:
67 KB (68,608 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Update Service(FirefoxU)

Service name:
FirefoxU

Description:
Keeps your Firefox software up to date. If this service is disabled or stopped, your Firefox software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and f

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
RpcSs


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