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pinnacledu.exe

Pinnacle Driver Updater

Pinnacle PC Performance

The application pinnacledu.exe by Pinnacle PC Performance 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 triggered to execute each time a user logs in. While running, it connects to the Internet address cdn-178-79-211-254.lon.llnw.net on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Pinnacle  (signed by Pinnacle PC Performance)

Product:
Pinnacle Driver Updater

Version:
1.0.0.20462

MD5:
1cd5c468b59fb3a7fa9a162be35abb14

SHA-1:
498090932e7c49323c9fc5a69e2ae0c8386566a2

SHA-256:
169b54ced7619747e57fea7aa00418c86169315e43e5926f7cde7c59769c9efa

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 1:39:44 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PinnaclePC (L)
17.2.17.17

File size:
2.8 MB (2,916,584 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.20462

Copyright:
Copyright © pinnacle.com 2016

Original file name:
pinnacledu.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\pinnacle driver updater\pinnacledu.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Pinnacle PC Performance

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/6/2017 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/9/2017 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Pinnacle PC Performance, OU=Management, O=Pinnacle PC Performance, STREET="3/213, Malviya Nagar", STREET=Jawahar Nagar Sec -7, L=Jaipur, S=Rajasthan, PostalCode=302017, C=IN

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

Serial number:
00E09E9C4FEECA1B59C697A96E9F38F8DF

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/17/2017 12:25:30 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

Entry address:
0x29699A

Entry point:
FF, 25, 00, 20, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 60, 29, 00, 0C, 00, 00, 00, 9C, 39, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.6375

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
2.6 MB (2,705,920 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Pinnacle Driver Updater_Logon

Trigger:
Logon (Runs on logon)


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cdn-178-79-211-253.lon.llnw.net  (178.79.211.253:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cdn-178-79-211-254.lon.llnw.net  (178.79.211.254:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 67-219-146-17  (67.219.146.170:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cdn-208-111-168-6.ord.llnw.net  (208.111.168.6:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to https-69-28-164-128.dal.llnw.net  (69.28.164.128:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to https-69-28-162-0.lax.llnw.net  (69.28.162.0:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cdn-208-111-148-7.sjc.llnw.net  (208.111.148.7:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cdn-68-142-93-254.sea2.llnw.net  (68.142.93.254:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to cdn-68-142-101-254-mia1.llnw.net  (68.142.101.254:80)

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