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hotspot-shield-4.15.1.exe

Arseniy Petrov

The application hotspot-shield-4.15.1.exe by Arseniy Petrov has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Arseniy Petrov  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e261c858a4b276d2984eb564dc157d35

SHA-1:
09a28a567a759577175542242d2be98cd6413c6c

SHA-256:
9c82f08855059bb002c6116b03a9655d267eaf857cefc5290d1c7d14d096ef40

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:
11/5/2024 3:39:41 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
17.2.24.20

File size:
2 MB (2,053,840 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\{fcb475f0-5f41-c2dc-fcb4-475f05f4d7c1}\hotspot-shield-4.15.1.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Arseniy Petrov

Authority:
Unizeto Technologies S.A.

Valid from:
6/27/2014 10:44:14 AM

Valid to:
6/27/2015 10:44:14 AM

Subject:
E=petrov.arseniy1980@yandex.ru, CN=Arseniy Petrov, O=Arseniy Petrov, C=UA

Issuer:
CN=Certum Code Signing CA, OU=Certum Certification Authority, O=Unizeto Technologies S.A., C=PL

Serial number:
2C3C130D9AF1A478D19B0BA47F98CDDA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/15/2013 2:05:09 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x1ED28

Entry point:
E8, 54, 12, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, C0, 66, 47, 00, E8, 62, 17, 00, 00, E8, 21, 14, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, E7, 11, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, C8, 0B, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
1.7081

Code size:
143.5 KB (146,944 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-69-38-174.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  (54.69.38.174:80)

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