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softwareupdater.exe

YUManager

Hudson Exchange Group, LLC

The application softwareupdater.exe by Hudson Exchange Group 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 NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from installopensoftware.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Hudson Exchange Group, LLC  (signed and verified)

Product:
YUManager

Version:
2.2.0.0

MD5:
fc6576e3af94f0e8833141e4fc668b63

SHA-1:
1338900c3b369f7091ebb5f66ffdb0583d6fad68

SHA-256:
a8e8214245f8f5650d9df9078d9e9c77fd519baf60290a8d76dcd21641ed3b48

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:
12/25/2024 1:35:07 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.10.8.3

File size:
292.6 KB (299,648 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright 2015

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Hudson Exchange Group, LLC

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/10/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
10/31/2016 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Hudson Exchange Group, LLC", O="Hudson Exchange Group, LLC", L=Woodcliff Lake, S=New Jersey, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
5B78F4208F4D587B6FA9A6AF8EC8FD12

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/1/2016 11:20:09 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:Yhjmu1ojUEbIzMZ/8zjV3G7SjTvNaW28UqAUxd:IKjpIzEmjV3GOjghHtQ

Entry address:
0x326C

Entry point:
81, EC, 84, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C7, 44, 24, 14, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 1C, C6, 44, 24, 18, 20, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 66, 3D, 06, 00, 74, 11, 53, E8, 07, 2E, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, BE, 80, 72, 40, 00, 56, E8, 83, 2D, 00, 00, 56, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, 8D, 74, 06, 01, 38, 1E, 75, EB, 6A, 0D, E8, DB, 2D, 00, 00, 6A, 0B, E8, D4, 2D, 00, 00, A3, 64, 3F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 38, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 6C...
 
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Entropy:
7.7838

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

Name:
YUDownloader

Command:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\softwareupdater.exe \continue=yes


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