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searchmetoolbar.exe

Cloud Installer

The application searchmetoolbar.exe by Cloud Installer 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 is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘SearchmeToolbarST’.
Publisher:
Cloud Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
28a2b0980ead187590ff170f317fe3a3

SHA-1:
36c4dd039bf7e9a63a13a9d3c350ba3333b9a55c

SHA-256:
fafccd0d3a2bfb1656e5af334dc6d681f5b9b3aca736d098375f9ec48b7b7388

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/28/2024 2:46:10 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.11.6

File size:
2.9 MB (3,011,511 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\searchmetoolbar\searchmetoolbar.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Cloud Installer

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
6/25/2016 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/26/2017 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Cloud Installer, O=Cloud Installer, L=Incline Village, S=Nevada, C=US

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0A5B4B5AF59BA66B15D186EE8D998A4D

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/6/2017 5:08:24 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x78B2D

Entry point:
E9, 81, 08, 18, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 66, 8B, 55, 0C, EB, 07, 66, 3B, CA, 74, 11, 40, 40, 0F, B7, 08, 66, 85, C9, 75, F1, 66, 39, 10, 74, 02, 33, C0, 5D, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, B8, FF, FF, 00, 00, 8B, C8, 83, EC, 14, 66, 39, 4D, 08, 0F, 84, 9A, 00, 00, 00, 53, FF, 75, 0C, 8D, 4D, EC, E8, 23, EA, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, EC, 8B, 51, 14, 33, DB, 3B, D3, 75, 14, 8B, 45, 08, 8D, 48, BF, 66, 83, F9, 19, 77, 03, 83, C0, 20, 0F, B7, C0, EB, 61, 56, B8, 00, 01, 00, 00, 8B, F0, 66, 39, 75...
 
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Entropy:
6.6816

Packer / compiler:
Xtreme-Protector v1.05

Code size:
2 MB (2,104,320 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
SearchmeToolbarST

Command:
"C:\users\{user}\appdata\roaming\searchmetoolbar\searchmetoolbar.exe" \restart


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