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pccleaner-installer.exe

PC Cleaners Inc.

The application pccleaner-installer.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 and installation application and has been known to bundle potentially unwanted software. The file has been seen being downloaded from pc-cleaners.com and multiple other hosts. While running, it connects to the Internet address vps.pc-cleaners.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
PC Cleaners  (signed by PC Cleaners Inc.)

Product:
PC Cleaners

Description:
PC Cleaner Pro

Version:
10.0.0.0

MD5:
1a5c2172795bc42d8a4b04911e9c57c5

SHA-1:
b59279f28af3cac8a228fc46923edd4814045119

SHA-256:
f2c1dfdfebfb06585d1a601530df3bac310d85df9faf87c65d7ba3b51af98606

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 3:23:01 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

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

File size:
4.8 MB (5,052,688 bytes)

Product version:
10.0.0.0

Copyright:
(c)2014 PC Cleaners Inc. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
PCSetup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\pccleaner-installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
PC Cleaners Inc.

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/12/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/13/2015 6:59:59 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:
2/19/2014 3:13:51 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:Mr0/lkavZr7HBFur04rN5qzKl1UN4bfCChgG/ig/XIZw5uoJ0pdOKX:1/lzvpv8l55lKSzJOCp/YZ4wLOKX

Entry address:
0x47C4960

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, B0, 6F, 04, 8D, BE, 00, 60, D0, FB, 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:
7.9241

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

Code size:
4.8 MB (5,021,696 bytes)

The file pccleaner-installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 10 URLs.

http://pc-cleaners.com/pccleaner-install.exe

http://www.pc-cleaners.com/PC_Cleaner_Pro.exe

http://fixmyerror.nwpc.safecart.com/.../download?Error 2753

http://fixmyerror.nwpc.revenuewire.net/.../download?Error 2753

http://pccleaner.com/app2_eng.exe

http://pcdesk1.nwpc.safecart.com/.../download

http://pcdesk1.nwpc.revenuewire.net/.../download

http://pccleaner.com/scan.php

http://pc-cleaners.com/app2_eng.exe

http://www.pccleaner.com/pccleaner-installer.exe

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to vps.pc-cleaners.com  (74.208.10.122:80)

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