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puttygen.exe

The executable puttygen.exe has been detected as malware by 3 anti-virus scanners. The file has been seen being downloaded from the.earth.li.
MD5:
3618d0e7e4cc4442b77f4f1e1dbcb5d5

SHA-1:
d2aa8c2301f2776aee08a0d05bf1d0fa4692199e

SHA-256:
06466b3cc659b157b2b8ae4f930e055fe826ffb5eb1a243f130b7d516413c0f5

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Malware

Analysis date:
12/27/2024 3:06:25 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Malware-gen
150717-0

Dr.Web
Trojan.Encoder.567
9.0.1.05190

Norman
Gen:Variant.Graftor.278139
02.04.2016 17:35:19

File size:
220.5 KB (225,792 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\puttygen.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/21/2016 6:46:51 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:wDhM8hJT89ldqY7piZevoaUWd6aOqIHJiLVp:wDq8buf9MevoaUWd6Hqrp

Entry address:
0x5362

Entry point:
E8, FC, 2A, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 56, 57, 33, F6, BF, E0, D3, 40, 00, 83, 3C, F5, EC, C3, 40, 00, 01, 75, 1D, 8D, 04, F5, E8, C3, 40, 00, 89, 38, 68, A0, 0F, 00, 00, FF, 30, 83, C7, 18, FF, 15, 30, 00, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 0C, 46, 83, FE, 24, 7C, D3, 33, C0, 40, 5F, 5E, C3, 83, 24, F5, E8, C3, 40, 00, 00, 33, C0, EB, F1, 8B, FF, 53, 8B, 1D, 34, 00, 41, 00, 56, BE, E8, C3, 40, 00, 57, 8B, 3E, 85, FF, 74, 13, 83, 7E, 04, 01, 74, 0D, 57, FF, D3, 57, E8, 23, 2B, 00, 00, 83, 26, 00, 59, 83, C6, 08...
 
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Entropy:
6.7026

Code size:
44 KB (45,056 bytes)

The file puttygen.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/.../puttygen.exe

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