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hotmayupdate.exe

Shulan Hou

The application hotmayupdate.exe by Shulan Hou has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named HotmayUpdateTaskMachineCore triggered by a time event.
Publisher:
Shulan Hou  (signed and verified)

MD5:
81df5d3fe348ce37be9ecebd4287a4ca

SHA-1:
8fec91a63359551356de960016a0f4c4bc0ed371

SHA-256:
a3c9ad12d56e6625c8356ec4edf691830daf24fd1a25a7db6b5dfae714a9854e

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:
12/24/2024 5:29:24 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ELEX (M)
16.9.14.11

File size:
594.2 KB (608,504 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\hotmay\update\hotmayupdate.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Shulan Hou

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/12/2016 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/14/2017 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Shulan Hou, 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:
3261BAE34D602AACC22105B22CB5F2E9

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/14/2016 3:42:38 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:QuQjYluSm10bW47EcU+gk8d5H/V8rKtNcpkk5MBSDLI:QuQiu8bWe0dUf2nBwI

Entry address:
0x49238

Entry point:
E8, B8, 05, 00, 00, E9, 8E, FE, FF, FF, FF, 25, DC, 03, 47, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 70, C0, 48, 00, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 70, C0, 48, 00, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, F0, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45...
 
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Entropy:
6.4842

Code size:
441 KB (451,584 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
HotmayUpdateTaskMachineCore

Trigger:
Time


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