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kometastart.exe

Kometa Start Button

Kometa LLC

The application kometastart.exe by Kometa has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 14 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from cdn.kometa-start.ru.
Publisher:
Kometa LCC  (signed by Kometa LLC)

Product:
Kometa Start Button

Version:
1.0.0.446

MD5:
937e9371389fa43b2006d6559837738a

SHA-1:
332ec31abc57dbcc3e6ae0246d01427e83d280b2

SHA-256:
67ce2d5f422b8fe62477b032c2789dd797c40e204b92b61ea0329707c74081e9

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
3/12/2025 5:25:12 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AVG
Kometa
2017.0.2839

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.RuKometa
4.0.3.1628

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.7383

Dr.Web
Trojan.LoadMoney.681
9.0.1.039

ESET NOD32
Win32/RuKometa.S potentially unwanted (variant)
10.12532

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/RuKometa
2/8/2016

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.RuKometa
t3scan.1.9.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.212.17782

McAfee
Artemis!55930E3BEA70
5600.6495

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.Kometa
16.2.8.23

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.Generic/QRS!1.9E2D [F]
23.00.65.16206

Sophos
Kometa Ru (PUA)
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
Signed-Adware.RuKometa
3.12.26.4

File size:
13.2 MB (13,874,272 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.446

Copyright:
Copyright Kometa(c) 2015

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\kometastart.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Kometa LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/6/2015 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/6/2018 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Kometa LLC, O=Kometa LLC, STREET="kv.93,k.1, 41 Chertanovskaya ul.", L=Moscow, S=Moscow, PostalCode=117519, C=RU

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
650A6B1174650A2E197862FE54E2519D

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2016 5:30:08 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:/RaAKCFxCA540HB55htE/oulUkc59CL+8desnV8E8XNxS20baaUSUyXh7F2LOOaW:/Rw0HB5f+D69W5BnV6m20OarUFCH5NUH

Entry address:
0x65502

Entry point:
E8, C8, 99, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 14, 56, 85, C0, 74, 41, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 75, 13, E8, 4A, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, E8, C6, 9B, 00, 00, 8B, C6, EB, 2A, 83, 7D, 10, 00, 74, E7, 39, 45, 0C, 73, 0E, E8, 2C, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 22, 59, 89, 08, 8B, F1, EB, DE, 50, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 08, E8, B9, F9, FF, FF, 83, C4, 0C, 33, C0, 5E, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 8B, F1, C6, 46, 0C, 00, 85, C0, 75, 63, E8, 32, 94, 00, 00, 89, 46, 08, 8B, 48, 6C, 89, 0E, 8B, 48, 68...
 
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Code size:
608.5 KB (623,104 bytes)

The file kometastart.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://cdn.kometa-start.ru/.../kometastart.exe

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