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pchealthboost-setup.exe

The application pchealthboost-setup.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 20 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.pchealthboost.com.
MD5:
3830e9a1344ee7b3143f14880cac7c9b

SHA-1:
113bd86e5634b6cb09f218d93b1edda2025e1a61

SHA-256:
f0f1c462f744e5016ebb3a673948146e1312a363f770404a6112856552b6ba2f

Scanner detections:
20 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
11/7/2024 5:50:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.12892479
5729816

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.InstallCore
7.1.1

Arcabit
Trojan.Generic.DC4B93F
1.0.0.425

AVG
Collected_c
2016.0.2995

Bitdefender
Trojan.Generic.12892479
1.0.20.1240

Dr.Web
riskware program Program.Unwanted.733, Trojan.MulDrop5.10078
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.12892479
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.FN potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/A-42c63c6c
v6.4.7.1.166

G Data
Trojan.Generic.12892479
15.9.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of pchealthboost-setup(1).exe
2015.11.1.1

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.2017124

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.InstallCore
v2015.09.05.02

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.12892479
16.0.0.744

Norman
Trojan.Generic.12892479
04.08.2015 10:30:46

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.12892479
15.09.04.01

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK-LNR/Heur!1.5594
23.00.65.151030

Sophos
PUA 'Install Core Click run software'
5.15

Total Defense
Win32/InstallCore.A!generic
37.1.62.1

Vba32 AntiVirus
Signed-Riskware.PCHealthBoost
3.12.26.4

File size:
2.8 MB (2,916,448 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\pchealthboost-setup.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:VlJfsMh3r7LduJMIyMwRoNuJWLaPsrNTtJAto5r+nOOJUNQfEVBPXTyOTeF:V/bdub0oN6srRQe0nRHfED+f

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.7903

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file pchealthboost-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://download.pchealthboost.com/boost/gcp/.../?dl=1&bst=1&chnl=&ver=2.3.1.807

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