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googleupdatesetup.exe

Shan Feng

The application googleupdatesetup.exe by Shan Feng 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 self-extracting archive and installer and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named ekklgbyBrowserUpdateCore triggered daily at a specified time.
Publisher:
Shan Feng  (signed and verified)

Version:
49.5.2623.92

MD5:
5641c5e7abeff7e666071d1f0acde904

SHA-1:
49f38a086cdc06944df5c1828964624e8f004a64

SHA-256:
d7d02e21dfd3c8eaca66f3ad334ba427bceb8d2d111853404dfe409bd39c8713

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/16/2024 3:51:31 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Elex (M)
16.12.15.2

File size:
463.9 KB (475,072 bytes)

Product version:
49.5.2623.92

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\chrome\application\googleupdatesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Shan Feng

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
2/4/2016 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/4/2017 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Shan Feng, 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:
35000007A9C98043CA459BAC1DA3B29C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/22/2016 3:11:18 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

Entry address:
0x35872

Entry point:
E8, 19, 50, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 3B, 0D, 30, D3, 46, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, C4, 13, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 74, 2D, FF, 75, 08, 6A, 00, FF, 35, 6C, F8, 46, 00, FF, 15, 44, 82, 45, 00, 85, C0, 75, 18, 56, E8, 7B, 57, 00, 00, 8B, F0, FF, 15, 90, 82, 45, 00, 50, E8, 80, 57, 00, 00, 59, 89, 06, 5E, 5D, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, FE, E0, 77, 6F, 53, 57, A1, 6C, F8, 46, 00, 85, C0, 75, 1D, E8, 4A, 4D, 00, 00, 6A, 1E, E8, A0, 4D, 00, 00, 68, FF, 00, 00, 00, E8, C0, 39, 00, 00, A1, 6C...
 
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Code size:
347 KB (355,328 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
ekklgbyBrowserUpdateCore

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 23:16)

Description:
Be sure to use the latest version of Browser. If this task is disabled or stopped, your Browser will not be updated, which means you can not fix a pot


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