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hotspot-shield.exe

Garden Variety Media

The application hotspot-shield.exe by Garden Variety Media has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
Garden Variety Media  (signed and verified)

Product:
Garden Variety Media

Version:
54.7.1.6637

MD5:
d27b765063b53a97fed4c9f54e31d4ec

SHA-1:
8c3326df80740b0ce22b78ace66cc4597d529152

SHA-256:
ead7f239ffc757d38c7384397abdd8aee51cec8dbaf2ce74cb040edc3f9fc94e

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/28/2024 7:42:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DownloadAdmin (M)
16.7.26.16

File size:
887.6 KB (908,880 bytes)

Product version:
54.7.1.6637

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\hotspot-shield.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Garden Variety Media

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
12/9/2015 2:52:38 AM

Valid to:
12/9/2016 2:52:38 AM

Subject:
CN=Garden Variety Media, O=Garden Variety Media, L="Oakland ", S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
093B7DDF075E0635

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/2/2014 5:40:15 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:WH5QiLdmbBf502+ht3naautQJNHHQ+ZuTbaSJj9B:45QYmbBh0Lb3DuCQ+ZuT2SJT

Entry address:
0x4AD6

Entry point:
E8, 95, 98, 00, 00, E9, 97, 91, 00, 00, 81, EC, 1C, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 8B, AC, 24, 28, 02, 00, 00, 56, 57, 6A, 01, 55, E8, F7, 05, 00, 00, 8B, F0, 89, 44, 24, 18, 8D, 44, 24, 1C, 50, 6A, 00, 6A, 02, 55, C7, 44, 24, 2C, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, CA, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 4C, 24, 2C, 6A, 00, 68, E8, 4C, 44, 00, 8B, F8, 8D, 1C, 0F, 6A, 03, 55, 89, 5C, 24, 44, E8, AE, CF, FF, FF, 8D, 54, 24, 48, 52, 55, 89, 44, 24, 48, E8, 7F, F3, FF, FF, 83, C4, 30, 85, FF, 75, 0D, 55, E8, 32, C7, FF, FF, D9, EE, E9, 8F, 00, 00, 00, 3B...
 
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Entropy:
7.9651  (probably packed)

Code size:
56.5 KB (57,856 bytes)

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