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Halo.exe

Halo

While the file properties state the file is developed by 'Microsoft Corporation', this is not the case and it is designed just to look like a legitimate Microsoft system file. The executable Halo.exe has been detected as malware by 2 anti-virus scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from download1293.mediafire.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Microsoft Corporation*  (Invalid match)

Product:
Halo

Version:
01.00.04.0607

MD5:
19fb0ae665c2e78640c5eacf2f953f30

SHA-1:
99467f13edd02efe5aa267e471b663beb83dda4b

SHA-256:
01f22619ecbc6144681b4306ccd89ff57e9aa4b9795790baa0509c7cf4baa5c0

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Malware

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 2:59:27 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Unnamed.Threat.14
14.3.2.11

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK/RDM!5.1
23.00.65.131217

File size:
2.7 MB (2,818,048 bytes)

Product version:
01.00.04.0607

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2003

Original file name:
Halo.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\halo.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/9/2004 11:22:58 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
7.10

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:wmcbqS+rtxXgMI5B55ftrnbUdPRBDjIg3fduKntjmR:wr+bXg5XftrngdPRBDVvdrn

Entry address:
0x2281D4

Entry point:
6A, 60, 68, 48, F0, 64, 00, E8, B0, 23, 00, 00, BF, 94, 00, 00, 00, 8B, C7, E8, 14, 03, 00, 00, 89, 65, E8, 8B, F4, 89, 3E, 56, FF, 15, 8C, A1, 63, 00, 8B, 4E, 10, 89, 0D, E8, 31, 6A, 00, 8B, 46, 04, A3, F4, 31, 6A, 00, 8B, 56, 08, 89, 15, F8, 31, 6A, 00, 8B, 76, 0C, 81, E6, FF, 7F, 00, 00, 89, 35, EC, 31, 6A, 00, 83, F9, 02, 74, 0C, 81, CE, 00, 80, 00, 00, 89, 35, EC, 31, 6A, 00, C1, E0, 08, 03, C2, A3, F0, 31, 6A, 00, 33, F6, 56, 8B, 3D, A8, A1, 63, 00, FF, D7, 66, 81, 38, 4D, 5A, 75, 1F, 8B, 48, 3C, 03...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v7.0

Code size:
2.2 MB (2,355,200 bytes)

The file Halo.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 6 URLs.

http://download1293.mediafire.com/szs7oh0jrblg/.../halo.exe

http://download29.mediafire.com/89wyv3pqsb6g/.../halo.exe

temp:Halo.exe

http://download844.mediafire.com/sn8wh5997u1g/.../halo.exe

https://doc-0k-34-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ihr5u2jscnkkbgmh8cmkvm6u5su9k3kg/29hkpatd4amd7frtbuqsle8u95mu71cu/1464271200000/.../15120966136147090344/0BzJNygJOlKRBOTBnLUZSeFpoVEE?e=download

http://download1395.mediafire.com/osjv9itis1eg/.../halo.exe

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP:
Connects to ec2-54-210-5-59.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (54.210.5.59:28910)

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