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softwareupdater.exe

Your Updater

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.

File name:

softwareupdater.exe

Publisher:

Hudson Exchange Group, LLC (signed and verified)

Product:

Your Updater

Version:

2.2.0.0

MD5:

dfe2983e441ec7f01bef3ebf9730f8a3

SHA-1:

af996d796078d0c1da2f4e721e39648b64a61fe1

SHA-256:

bcfcedc98f2df3188fc3e1fe7ada9f3fdf7b9304b11b4f5291d8557c03399095

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:

12/26/2024 5:37:52 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP.HudsonEx.Installer (M)

16.4.3.14

File size:

316.1 KB (323,680 bytes)

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 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:

10/31/2016 6:59:59 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:

12/26/2015 11:38:52 PM

OS version:

4.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

6144:aBnh3XoJpRV8Eye2zXawCcAMjdg+f6dueh1XE2ABuBMynd00:+o7EEyeTwudueHDO4B

Entry address:

0x324F

Entry point:

81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 1C, C7, 44, 24, 14, 30, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 18, 20, FF, 15, B8, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 66, 3D, 06, 00, 74, 11, 53, E8, FC, 2D, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, 68, E0, 91, 40, 00, E8, 7D, 2D, 00, 00, 68, D8, 91, 40, 00, E8, 73, 2D, 00, 00, 68, CC, 91, 40, 00, E8, 69, 2D, 00, 00, 6A, 0D, E8, CC, 2D, 00, 00, 6A, 0B, E8, C5, 2D, 00, 00, A3, 84, 3F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF... 
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Entropy:

7.7298

Packer / compiler:

Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:

23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

The file softwareupdater.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 50 URLs.