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Ammyy

The application microsoft.exe by Ammyy 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 separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Microsoft”.
Publisher:
Intel LLC  (signed by Ammyy)

Product:
Microsoft

MD5:
ab09436836f9e9eb89c9d1df31cee64e

SHA-1:
ebd1caae240f77c2e538ffab587ab9c63366c348

SHA-256:
7f01629cbeacf8bd75627ef1349a676e349a38d236884eca94dbb36356bc5f9c

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:
12/25/2024 6:39:28 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Ammyy (M)
17.3.3.17

File size:
686.3 KB (702,744 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\windows\microsoft.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Ammyy

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
1/14/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/15/2015 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Ammyy, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Ammyy, L=Москва, S=Москва, C=RU

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
52C9E020C4D675A668E1DDEB0EF1167B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/14/2014 11:25:26 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

Entry address:
0x79AFE

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, 00, 47, 48, 00, 68, A0, 9C, 47, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 68, 53, 56, 57, 89, 65, E8, 33, DB, 89, 5D, FC, 6A, 02, FF, 15, A0, 03, 48, 00, 59, 83, 0D, E0, FD, 4A, 00, FF, 83, 0D, E4, FD, 4A, 00, FF, FF, 15, A4, 03, 48, 00, 8B, 0D, C8, FD, 4A, 00, 89, 08, FF, 15, A8, 03, 48, 00, 8B, 0D, C4, FD, 4A, 00, 89, 08, A1, AC, 03, 48, 00, 8B, 00, A3, DC, FD, 4A, 00, E8, A7, A0, FA, FF, 39, 1D, F0, 86, 4A, 00, 75, 0C, 68, CA, 9C, 47, 00, FF, 15, B0, 03...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0

Code size:
508 KB (520,192 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Microsoft

Service name:
AmmyyAdmin

Type:
Win32OwnProcess


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