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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:
1.0.6033.18272

MD5:
a60299507545c021eccbe9d9bbadded1

SHA-1:
7432228fb66ea95fe2e8303e608389bca2ab0f4e

SHA-256:
27e9e2f3cd1cbe239d99b2fc71fdb7549ea87f7c87d034460d6a0084a4cd610b

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 3:26:38 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Yontoo (M)
17.3.15.7

File size:
692.7 KB (709,344 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6033.18272

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\421f63af-3585-4410-b9ef-1ec5abd70f34\plugins\6\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 12:09:25 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

Entry address:
0x456365

Entry point:
E8, 06, 0B, 01, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, 3C, F5, A0, 06, 00, 01, 00, 75, 13, 56, E8, 71, 00, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 11, E8, 3B, DD, FF, FF, 59, FF, 34, F5, A0, 06, 00, 01, FF, 15, 88, 02, C0, 00, 5E, 5D, C3, 56, 57, BE, A0, 06, 00, 01, 8B, FE, 53, 8B, 1F, 85, DB, 74, 17, 83, 7F, 04, 01, 74, 11, 53, FF, 15, 74, 01, C0, 00, 53, E8, 4B, 9F, FF, FF, 83, 27, 00, 59, 83, C7, 08, 81, FF, C0, 07, 00, 01, 7C, D8, 5B, 83, 3E, 00, 74, 0E, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 75, 08, FF, 36, FF, 15...
 
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Entropy:
6.6016

Code size:
557 KB (570,368 bytes)

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