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General Buddy

The application plugincontainer.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. It runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Service Mgr CustomerPromos”.
Publisher:
General Buddy  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.6270.24212

MD5:
2116a510a5a8c280c1937581051cddde

SHA-1:
caf017349b123419c37ed150eddff7ee009a7fef

SHA-256:
0c7231458e4abad770bc510b5199c45767537e4efceec26a749d429dfb375ac2

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/25/2024 3:33:25 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.Yontoo (M)
17.3.3.3

File size:
821.7 KB (841,440 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6270.24212

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\9419acfc-a13b-418c-9e11-827a5ef0f605\plugincontainer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
General Buddy

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/31/2016 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/1/2017 8:59:59 PM

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:
3/2/2017 6:27:26 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x25D46C

Entry point:
E8, 8C, 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, A0, 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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Code size:
645.5 KB (660,992 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Service Mgr CustomerPromos

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
RPCSS


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

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a184-51-126-170.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (184.51.126.170:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a184-51-126-177.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (184.51.126.177:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a184-51-126-147.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (184.51.126.147:80)

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