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Coast Sense

The application plugincontainer.exe by Coast Sense 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 SearchKnow”.
Publisher:
Coast Sense  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.6284.4455

MD5:
916d540be88fc9fab57d3263604440f5

SHA-1:
f43da67d0b201507b585f4223b0bb9fea096e5dd

SHA-256:
a7457bcf2b9aaea8c7b4042e2e82610902ae65e1350c24984aad29e28baeeed1

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/6/2025 9:49:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
Adware.CoatSense (M)
17.3.16.13

File size:
811.7 KB (831,200 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6284.4455

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\9a4b8b26-f4e0-4529-a5b4-93ec828f7e42\plugincontainer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Coast Sense

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
6/1/2016 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/2/2017 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Coast Sense, O=Coast Sense, 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:
619E3FCA66CF3D654B952D008FCEA03F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/16/2017 5:28:51 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x15BB01

Entry point:
E8, 97, 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, 70, 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:
6.6169

Code size:
639 KB (654,336 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Service Mgr SearchKnow

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
RPCSS


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