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Cherished Technology Limited

The application update.exe by Cherished Technology Limited has been detected as adware by 9 anti-malware scanners.
Publisher:
Cherished Technology Limited  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a428ece2ff5d496cd3c1b53074042f16

SHA-1:
666ed84606ec0390b47cbb7e3ed018cbc72a9cf6

SHA-256:
f2ec6594c2b62d30367230e7bc59087f3ae9472f4a29de040a9b63bad6e3b19d

Scanner detections:
9 / 68

Status:
Adware

Analysis date:
2/25/2025 1:31:57 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen2
7.11.186.196

avast!
Win32:Dropper-NYA [Drp]
2014.9-150114

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.Elex
4.0.3.15114

Dr.Web
Trojan.StartPage.63930
9.0.1.014

McAfee
Artemis!A428ECE2FF5D
5600.6885

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.StartPage.dbbsdv
0.28.6.63474

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Dropper.7d9
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CherishedTechnologyLimited.G
15.1.14.12

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V1112
7.2.14

File size:
1.7 MB (1,801,872 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\ProgramData\wpm\update\update.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Cherished Technology Limited

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
10/20/2014 5:35:29 AM

Valid to:
10/21/2015 5:35:29 AM

Subject:
CN=Cherished Technology Limited, O=Cherished Technology Limited, L=香港, S=香港, C=HK

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
112111C895265DC370EA5D6D50E46DE29C46

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2014 8:55:49 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:y3831Z2w3or+Qd+ZaYo98vZKpUbgsGHFcOuA1+bCw:+8F4ooSQdkvZVbQNuA4p

Entry address:
0x154EC

Entry point:
E8, C7, 97, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 14, 56, 85, C0, 74, 3C, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 75, 13, E8, FF, 0C, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, E8, CB, 73, 00, 00, 8B, C6, EB, 25, 83, 7D, 10, 00, 74, E7, 39, 45, 0C, 73, 09, E8, E1, 0C, 00, 00, 6A, 22, EB, E0, 50, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 08, E8, 96, EB, FF, FF, 83, C4, 0C, 33, C0, 5E, 5D, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, F1, 8B, 4D, 08, C6, 46, 0C, 00, 85, C9, 75, 66, E8, 7D, 8F, 00, 00, 8B, D0, 89, 56, 08, 8B, 4A, 6C, 89, 0E, 8B, 4A, 68, 89, 4E, 04, 8B, 0E, 3B, 0D...
 
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Code size:
257 KB (263,168 bytes)

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