hotspot shield 4.4.4.exe

The executable hotspot shield 4.4.4.exe has been detected as malware by 1 anti-virus scanner. The file has been seen being downloaded from d.kindscanmeta.net.
MD5:
010d7cfc73fc2e01975e31f232448bd0

SHA-1:
df1395800c2ede5d2ac0bef94d2306376ec36250

SHA-256:
c988dca07ac9c7cc369243c315f067e50c5e8d90facac4545a26672f85c1f104

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Malware

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 7:19:51 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Win.Reputation.IMP
16.2.10.12

File size:
2.5 MB (2,576,384 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\hotspot shield 4.4.4.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/27/2012 8:34:16 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:51SITrIZvZkx47EF1EichTmucqpf09xrZqP1x:znXIRGxmEs/pwZqP1

Entry address:
0x215BF8

Entry point:
E8, 54, 12, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, 80, 34, 64, 00, E8, 62, 17, 00, 00, E8, 24, 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:
1.4451

Code size:
2.1 MB (2,207,232 bytes)

The file hotspot shield 4.4.4.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

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