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monhost.exe

Vested Development, Inc

The application monhost.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. While running, it connects to the Internet address cs47.hostneverdie.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Vested Development, Inc

Product:
monhost.exe

Version:
2.2.1.23

MD5:
912caaaa14ede8250de04c131ed2b06d

SHA-1:
861be67a4d4f580dff2d06fc4e351876047e9fe7

SHA-256:
a3048bbd4853c34fad4d4c0fd62b34c6054bcdba11ca2b73e2071116c04fd9ce

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/23/2024 9:52:19 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Glupteba
17.1.28.2

File size:
622.5 KB (637,440 bytes)

Product version:
2.2.0.2

Copyright:
Copyright © 2016

Original file name:
monhost.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\vdi\shared\product updater\monhost.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/28/2017 8:34:25 AM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x2FA16

Entry point:
E8, C0, 0A, 00, 00, E9, 8E, FE, FF, FF, FF, 25, B0, E2, 46, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, F2, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, F2, E8, 90, F8, FF, FF, F2, E9, DA, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, EC, 33, CD, F2, E8, 7F, F8, FF, FF, F2, E9, C9, FF, FF, FF, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 84, B0, 48, 00, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.6124

Code size:
435.5 KB (445,952 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cs47.hostneverdie.com  (27.254.82.155:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ip234.208-100-26.static.steadfastdns.net  (208.100.26.234:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 147.62.236.23.bc.googleusercontent.com  (23.236.62.147:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-34-192-66-230.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (34.192.66.230:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cluster005.ovh.net  (213.186.33.16:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to icebergcone.com  (91.142.85.224:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to web140.extendcp.co.uk  (79.170.44.140:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to sinkhole.fitsec.com  (193.166.255.171:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ns8914.dotvndns.vn  (112.213.89.14:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to HDRedirect-LB3-890977680.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com  (68.168.222.206:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ec2-52-22-224-47.compute-1.amazonaws.com  (52.22.224.47:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-37-43-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.37.43.27:80)

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