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pcav.exe

PC Antivirus Pro

PC Cleaners Inc.

The application pcav.exe by PC Cleaners has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from pccleaner.com.
Publisher:
PC Cleaners  (signed by PC Cleaners Inc.)

Product:
PC Antivirus Pro

Version:
10.0.0.0

MD5:
ce4700a4c12327355783cb9a7bde2771

SHA-1:
7d898e7dbc9fae6b2bb1b520ece0de2e9a8db6a7

SHA-256:
c5000094bc62fcd2de2e291b0b1c2a3ad244c41e36a2a1055deabf17fdcae780

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 12:59:38 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PCCleaner.Installer.Meta (M)
16.6.10.14

File size:
6.2 MB (6,500,112 bytes)

Product version:
10.0.0.0

Copyright:
(c) PC Cleaners. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
PCSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
PC Cleaners Inc.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/12/2014 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/13/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=PC Cleaners Inc., O=PC Cleaners Inc., POBox=92677, STREET="220 Newport Center Dr. Suite #197", L=Newport Beach, S=California, PostalCode=92660, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C9E049157A6A920D966DC639E40B25DA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/4/2015 10:37:14 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
196608:mVPdqWwauNOx5EFfJO04JdJ3e9RkcTJntZP:+1qWIN6o+d4hxbP

Entry address:
0x41F3650

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, B0, 00, 04, 8D, BE, 00, 60, 3F, FC, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8776

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
5.9 MB (6,197,248 bytes)

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

http://pccleaner.com/PCAV.exe

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