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OMG Privacy Shield

Vast Tech Support

The application updater.exe, “updater 2.1.4 © OMG, Inc, 2013” by Vast Tech Support has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat.
Publisher:
OMG  (signed by Vast Tech Support)

Product:
OMG Privacy Shield

Description:
updater 2.1.4 © OMG, Inc, 2013

Version:
2.1.4

MD5:
8080c9a368418f126d0c8caec0e3bf07

SHA-1:
10e19fb92e82528f30717f63db660e5f00a943c6

SHA-256:
4786aaf3795c0f18c28a92267ecb4a638ee1dd26d78887a4db34f5a8dc2ed7fb

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:
12/27/2024 9:11:23 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.9.16.8

File size:
415.4 KB (425,344 bytes)

Product version:
2.1.4

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014 OMG

Original file name:
updater.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\omg privacy shield\updater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Vast Tech Support

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/23/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/24/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Vast Tech Support, O=Vast Tech Support, L=Delray Beach, S=Florida, C=US

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

Serial number:
074DFF23E064F33AB5EC78F8BEB7D2F2

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/9/2014 5:24:08 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:sxeLAVrzhQeC/Z9LmgM2oAi3rU2Cw9eqLWS4Dx4QCgWL:sBlueC/Z9CkbarU2Cw9s41L

Entry address:
0x11399

Entry point:
E8, E6, 75, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, CC, 68, 00, 14, 41, 00, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 44, 24, 10, 89, 6C, 24, 10, 8D, 6C, 24, 10, 2B, E0, 53, 56, 57, A1, 44, 00, 44, 00, 31, 45, FC, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, E8, FF, 75, F8, 8B, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, 89, 45, F8, 8D, 45, F0, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, CC, CC, CC, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 18, 53, 8B, 5D, 0C, 56, 8B, 73, 08, 33, 35, 44, 00, 44, 00, 57, 8B, 06...
 
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Entropy:
5.9941

Code size:
223.5 KB (228,864 bytes)

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