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The application plugincontainer.exe by View Scholar 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 separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Service Mgr MoreResultsHub”.
Publisher:
View Scholar  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.6033.30489

MD5:
79d01da1ec00ca8ae1afde69efead228

SHA-1:
16d5dd07e9ce36e4046715a7e18c663712924bc2

SHA-256:
398123ff64e6edc37147f7251a0a9b9dc90be2d169506c02d983b0060e5ad574

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/30/2024 8:58:17 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
17.2.1.1

File size:
812.7 KB (832,224 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6033.30489

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\421f63af-3585-4410-b9ef-1ec5abd70f34\plugincontainer.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 7:56:38 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x805B8C3

Entry point:
E8, 95, 07, 00, 00, E9, 80, FE, FF, FF, 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, BF, F4, FF, FF, F2, E9, DA, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, EC, 33, CD, F2, E8, AE, F4, FF, FF, F2, E9, C9, FF, FF, FF, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 70, 00, 40, 18, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24...
 
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Entropy:
6.6721

Code size:
638.5 KB (653,824 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Service Mgr MoreResultsHub

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
RPCSS


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a96-17-197-35.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com  (96.17.197.35:80)

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