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starter.exe

Koyote-Lab Inc.

The application starter.exe by Koyote-Lab has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Koyote-Lab Inc.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
55f875f62a6b761fa34318f1bdada195

SHA-1:
4bec980952595b99582676147d038529232ce466

SHA-256:
c60d1a0ca5dc0fb311d118484578c5e0d23d205ae2c2c580596fb79785e11c0f

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:
2/24/2025 3:57:07 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bandoo (M)
16.7.30.13

File size:
126.4 KB (129,400 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\starter.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Koyote-Lab Inc.

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
10/26/2015 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/21/2016 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Koyote-Lab Inc., OU=DEV, O=Koyote-Lab Inc., L=Panama City, S=Panama, C=PA

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA - G2, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
5D8843D240CE142A4D70B9208C8B2B7D

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/28/2015 1:42:29 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
768:z5chfV/wwIyo37gs4OJntg2pf4onWCAfFCE2Hz8hSnb+DyBkkaT2TEDcgnQfoHcj:yhBwwbNs4OfgGBmwEzsPkhPhWkKEI

Entry address:
0x7062

Entry point:
E8, 3F, 20, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 80, D3, 40, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 10, D1, 40, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 56, 8B, 35, D4, D0, 40, 00, 57, FF, 35, E8, 2E, 41, 00, FF, D6, FF, 35, E4, 2E, 41, 00, 8B, D8, 89, 5D, FC, FF, D6, 8B, F0, 3B, F3, 0F, 82...
 
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Entropy:
5.3057

Code size:
46.5 KB (47,616 bytes)

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