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pcutilitykit.exe

Red Dog Media, Inc.

The application pcutilitykit.exe by Red Dog Media 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 runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler. This file is typically installed with the program PC Utility Kit by Red Dog Media which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
PC Utility Kit  (signed by Red Dog Media, Inc.)

Product:
PC Utility Kit

Version:
3.1.5.0

MD5:
31f884c7dbf0e20e87053105bf791e9d

SHA-1:
03ab768047f5c24ebbd7fb34728c78bb484e7ac1

SHA-256:
129b158def0a1e3c49165360bdb256174c562a03215e811c4f417c24efd848ea

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/6/2024 4:36:36 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.RedDogMe.Task
17.1.26.16

File size:
4.5 MB (4,681,008 bytes)

Product version:
3.1.5.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2012 PC Utility Kit

Original file name:
pcutilitykit.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\pc utility kit\pc utility kit\pcutilitykit.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Red Dog Media, Inc.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/20/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/21/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Red Dog Media, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Red Dog Media, Inc.", L=Henderson, S=Nevada, 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:
3E252606673E72704B095960C72696BF

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/2/2013 5:58:41 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

Entry address:
0x2705E7

Entry point:
E8, 7C, B3, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 3B, 0D, A0, 1E, 7F, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, 03, B4, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 85, F6, 75, 04, 33, C0, EB, 61, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 75, 13, E8, 64, 5E, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, E8, 6D, B6, 00, 00, 8B, C6, EB, 48, 83, 7D, 10, 00, 74, 16, 39, 75, 0C, 72, 11, 56, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 08, E8, 4F, 9A, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, C7, FF, 75, 0C, 6A, 00, FF, 75, 08, E8, DD, 61, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 83, 7D, 10, 00, 74, BB, 39, 75, 0C, 73, 0E, E8, 1A, 5E, 00, 00, 6A...
 
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Entropy:
6.6078

Code size:
3.2 MB (3,332,096 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
PC Utility Kit

Trigger:
Weekly (Runs weekly on Mondays at 2:07 AM)

Description:
PC Utility Kit


The file pcutilitykit.exe has been discovered within the following program.

PC Utility Kit  by Red Dog Media
This is a PC optimization program that is supposed to increase the speed of computer by removing invalid entries the computer's registry.
www.pcutilitykit.com
About 62% of users remove it
 
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