plants vs zombies 2 3.5.1.exe

The application plants vs zombies 2 3.5.1.exe 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 daily at a specified time. The file has been seen being downloaded from d.kindscanmeta.net.
MD5:
88dde1a290fd249886aa89c7e0619ee7

SHA-1:
86578973db8579cb77c769d400f8db2d4ffe880b

SHA-256:
d3fb9f14548935cc19b752b202d22c2bcd9bf734d38b32e057d710fab44b4c5e

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 6:23:36 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.PCUtilities (M)
16.2.6.13

File size:
2.5 MB (2,570,240 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\{09765dcd-f9a9-d017-0976-65dcdf9a7737}\plants vs zombies 2 3.5.1.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/3/2012 12:27:42 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:a7KXVjmUhUQJ5/RczIZrFxbvrBJCB0x7zpzB9OGI:sKlrUQ62r7v/Ce3n9Of

Entry address:
0x214248

Entry point:
E8, 54, 12, 00, 00, E9, 00, 00, 00, 00, 6A, 14, 68, C0, 25, 64, 00, E8, 62, 17, 00, 00, E8, 21, 14, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, E7, 11, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, C8, 0B, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00, 00, 59, E8...
 
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Entropy:
1.4222

Code size:
2.1 MB (2,200,576 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Bidaily Synchronize Task[973b]

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 10:52 PM)


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