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Access Plex

The application plugincontainer.exe by Access Plex 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 StrongSignal”.
Publisher:
Access Plex  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.6275.27910

MD5:
667102d901cee83b1e3726d08b1ef7af

SHA-1:
2f919060779f90a6ac8f40ac897834fb09981385

SHA-256:
993f2c04e825eedc3570b1b6b958749dcb34787c168b0524ece315c7332cd0c0

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
2/25/2025 5:37:28 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
17.3.8.0

File size:
811.7 KB (831,200 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6275.27910

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\0780f478-67ce-4ec3-98db-39a65f4618ce\plugincontainer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Access Plex

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/31/2016 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/1/2017 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Access Plex, O=Access Plex, 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:
25AF7F34D4B1CF038B8E1202CF766B6D

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/7/2017 6:30:39 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0xDBCF6

Entry point:
E8, 92, 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, 60, 00, 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:
6.6191

Code size:
639.5 KB (654,848 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Service Mgr StrongSignal

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
RPCSS


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-73-181-43.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.73.181.43:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-73-181-41.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.73.181.41:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-73-181-25.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.73.181.25:80)

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