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General Buddy

The application plugin.exe by General Buddy has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
General Buddy  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.6270.36993

MD5:
a4d95900bacf784bd012d7922ce51b67

SHA-1:
42e719d4d3c9170d071f101ee7ccb76dac2aa726

SHA-256:
7d8aa9ac8782132b994fc46ca73328b7626c953fc13281ca08ea79128c0ffecf

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/24/2024 5:34:32 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo.Plugin (M)
17.3.3.7

File size:
1.8 MB (1,921,760 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6270.36993

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\e3f18dd0-c02e-4d93-a6e8-d2ca967914a5\plugins\8\plugin.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
General Buddy

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/1/2016 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
6/2/2017 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=General Buddy, O=General Buddy, L=Los Angeles, 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:
512E11D3288F6999A9E648674EC86545

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/3/2017 10:03:54 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x410650D

Entry point:
E8, 6C, 05, 00, 00, E9, 4E, FE, FF, FF, FF, 25, 1C, 04, 40, 08, CC, CC, CC, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 08, 2B, C8, 83, E1, 0F, 03, C1, 1B, C9, 0B, C1, 59, E9, 3A, FD, FF, FF, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 08, 2B, C8, 83, E1, 07, 03, C1, 1B, C9, 0B, C1, 59, E9, 24, FD, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, 53, 56, 8B, 44, 24, 18, 0B, C0, 75, 18, 8B, 4C, 24, 14, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 33, D2, F7, F1, 8B, D8, 8B, 44, 24, 0C, F7, F1, 8B, D3, EB, 41, 8B, C8, 8B, 5C, 24, 14, 8B, 54, 24, 10, 8B, 44, 24, 0C, D1, E9, D1, DB, D1, EA, D1, D8, 0B, C9, 75, F4, F7...
 
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Entropy:
6.6107

Code size:
1.6 MB (1,638,400 bytes)

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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-62-6-168.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.62.6.168:80)

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