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View Scholar

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

Version:
1.0.6033.25424

MD5:
09e7945dfe91a5e8ed331fafc77fea7a

SHA-1:
5bdada5f3a5921e22ca7811fe569838851ec2199

SHA-256:
05da90ed1e14c7571f7f3e4db8e1d0f25c3aa888b305259e160e4f67693df12f

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
11/30/2024 3:48:21 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Yontoo (M)
17.3.15.7

File size:
799.7 KB (818,912 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6033.25424

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\421f63af-3585-4410-b9ef-1ec5abd70f34\plugins\3\plugin.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
View Scholar

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/15/2016 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/15/2017 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=View Scholar, O=View Scholar, L=San Diego, 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:
620E64B7062FAC3A2D97D813E0C8B852

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/8/2016 4:08:01 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x5DE4E

Entry point:
E8, 98, 06, 00, 00, E9, 80, FE, FF, FF, FF, 25, 04, 04, 4A, 00, CC, CC, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 08, 2B, C8, 83, E1, 0F, 03, C1, 1B, C9, 0B, C1, 59, E9, DA, 07, 00, 00, 51, 8D, 4C, 24, 08, 2B, C8, 83, E1, 07, 03, C1, 1B, C9, 0B, C1, 59, E9, C4, 07, 00, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, F2, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, F2, E8, CE, F4, FF, FF, F2, E9, DA, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, EC, 33, CD, F2, E8, BD, F4, FF, FF, F2, E9, C9, FF, FF, FF, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24...
 
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Entropy:
6.6537

Code size:
634 KB (649,216 bytes)

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