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pccleanerav.exe

PC Antivirus Pro

Support Expert

The application pccleanerav.exe by Support Expert has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘PC Antivirus’.
Publisher:
PC Cleaners Inc.  (signed by Support Expert)

Product:
PC Antivirus Pro

Version:
10.0.0.0

MD5:
eeb51166397897d14fc2b798e2e67319

SHA-1:
2938011afd32994fa259a4d5f7bb332d6dfaf0cc

SHA-256:
9ea7f4a6510d3d6cb4f4649cec89d5546af18188478911193440035e795a8272

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/28/2024 7:03:50 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PCCleaners.Optional.Meta (L)
15.7.8.14

File size:
52.6 MB (55,147,240 bytes)

Product version:
10.0.0.0

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

Original file name:
PCGUI.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\pc antivirus\pccleanerav.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Support Expert

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
8/30/2013 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
10/30/2014 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Support Expert, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Support Expert, L=Dana Point, S=California, C=US

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:
1AB73242451177A8F06AC9A2E1F9FCE8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/11/2014 4:38:40 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:/9YWwg64B+gdVct3xxM9rLiyOvpHpAFCfOL16BHi2Sv27x6O0tOCxkliVDX2/K8D://rfV8xx1Np4rre7x6O0d2/K8AY

Entry address:
0x73883

Entry point:
E8, 23, 61, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 3B, 0D, 90, B7, 4D, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, A5, 61, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 57, 33, FF, 3B, F7, 75, 04, 33, C0, EB, 65, 39, 7D, 08, 75, 1B, E8, 3C, 23, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, E8, F8, 11, 00, 00, 83, C4, 14, 8B, C6, EB, 45, 39, 7D, 10, 74, 16, 39, 75, 0C, 72, 11, 56, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 08, E8, 6A, 62, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, C1, FF, 75, 0C, 57, FF, 75, 08, E8, 59, 1C, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 39, 7D, 10, 74, B6, 39, 75, 0C, 73...
 
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Entropy:
2.7055

Code size:
671 KB (687,104 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
PC Antivirus

Command:
"C:\Program Files\pc antivirus\pccleanerav.exe" \minimize


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