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softwareupdater.exe

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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 appcloudprotected.com and multiple other hosts.

File name:

softwareupdater.exe

Publisher:

Hudson Exchange Group, LLC (signed and verified)

Product:

Version:

2.2.0.0

MD5:

11b600295dc60cdf3920fed9c6601e88

SHA-1:

c6ba7060525e9b46bc45d055408f7bdb271e8ba6

SHA-256:

d6584ff8fe65eb31f9158d0711cc8472eff3af8677f9a85db8f5419f338f8b7c

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 12:40:18 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

Reason Heuristics

PUP (M)

16.10.13.23

File size:

302.3 KB (309,512 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 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:ihjmAxiGG+3FEG1OulTeZmayYQDZYaP+ocBlpZ1NTOkLiKw+z1X7pfTXxmr:oxiG3FEG1OuhEmnYAknBlpZtzJ7fI

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:

7.7928

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 38 URLs.

https://appcloudprotected.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

http://installopensoftware.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

https://appcloudprotected.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

https://installopensoftware.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

https://appcloudprotected.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

http://installopensoftware.com/startdlnow.php

https://appcloudprotected.com/campaign/.../rdr.php

Latest 30 of 38 download URLs

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