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smartdriverupdater.exe

Smart Driver Updater

Smart PC Solutions, Inc.

The application smartdriverupdater.exe by Smart PC Solutions has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from members.driverguide.com and multiple other hosts.

File name:

Publisher:

Avanquest (signed by Smart PC Solutions, Inc.)

Product:

Smart Driver Updater

Version:

3.1

MD5:

ee346b1b34295d3620026cf50d0adb2d

SHA-1:

3c6c65bfd9a51b0ef98b932da7e6cef7dcc19c26

SHA-256:

7678d5b7fc4927742fad41a8f7063880b635b3896aed5db8a61bcfad36640d7c

Scanner detections:

1 / 68

Status:

Potentially unwanted

Note:

Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:

11/23/2024 2:41:02 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Optional.SmartPCSolutions.V

14.6.10.14

File size:

2 MB (2,052,120 bytes)

Product version:

3.1

Avanquest

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:

Inno Setup

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\smartdriverupdater.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Smart PC Solutions, Inc.

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

4/5/2011 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:

5/30/2014 5:29:59 AM

Subject:

CN="Smart PC Solutions, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Smart PC Solutions, Inc.", L=Alexandria, S=Virginia, 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:

502E76B6ACDCDE4F3336BF9286946063

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/20/1992 3:52:17 AM

OS version:

1.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

49152:daikdEEKYVBN8+wCJDSavOQxLTmNhm3a/jnv9WtjPCLJinXBgd:sik+rsN8+wCJbchimFWJPCLARgd

Entry address:

0x9C40

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, E8, CD, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, E8, CD... 
[+]

Entropy:

7.9945

Packer / compiler:

Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:

37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file smartdriverupdater.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 6 URLs.

http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=redir&label=sdu_scan&url=http://dgscan.bluesquad.revenuewire.net/.../download

http://dscanner.bluesquad.safecart.com/.../download

http://dscanner.bluesquad.revenuewire.net/.../download

http://filecdn2.avanquest.com/.../SmartDriverUpdater.exe

http://bluesquad.safecart.com/.../download

http://bluesquad.revenuewire.net/.../download

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