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updater.exe

Energy Trivia

The application updater.exe by Energy Trivia 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 runs as a separate (within the context of its own process) windows Service named “Update Mgr HooplaSearch”.
Publisher:
Energy Trivia  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.6275.34222

MD5:
4eba837ef1e05f21919672d4aba0cc2b

SHA-1:
401bee5a82bf51dec1b77ad79f9f61e5d8cde212

SHA-256:
f0446e2fc76286ecdc63b14f59145a3b634dc9dcbbf9761ed706c2f5c39e87d7

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/23/2024 5:50:39 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Yontoo (M)
17.3.15.7

File size:
1012.7 KB (1,037,024 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.6275.34222

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\common files\fb4c7509-7895-4257-8cc3-e92949418b04\updater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Energy Trivia

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/21/2016 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/22/2017 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Energy Trivia, O=Energy Trivia, L=San Diego, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
2A82A8BA8349092A433D527E52B6476F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/7/2017 9:01:18 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
14.0

Entry address:
0x808D2AA

Entry point:
E8, E4, 06, 00, 00, E9, 80, FE, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, F2, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, F2, E8, 2F, F9, FF, FF, F2, E9, DA, FF, FF, FF, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, E4, 00, 40, 18, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, F2, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, E4, 00, 40, 18...
 
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Entropy:
6.5899

Code size:
838.5 KB (858,624 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Update Mgr HooplaSearch

Type:
Win32OwnProcess

Depends on:
RPCSS


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