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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.
Publisher:
Cloud Installer  (signed and verified)

MD5:
3e325728a4527c9847a10d80b5600aef

SHA-1:
78f5a1c95dce05bfd63865923c9b676ca47a310f

SHA-256:
5bd2936d9907af0cbe9b81a1911c37ebfd1b5b65c96bf2a4925d6a3802c88b22

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/28/2024 2:41:24 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.7.18

File size:
2.8 MB (2,933,232 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:
6/26/2016 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/27/2017 1:59:59 AM

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 3:08:24 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x78B2D

Entry point:
E8, 27, 33, 01, 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:
6.6209

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

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