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updater.exe

Softoware LLC

The application updater.exe, “updater 2.6.9 © Privacy Essential, Inc, 2014” by Softoware 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:
Privacy Essential  (signed by Softoware LLC)

Product:
Privacy Essential

Description:
updater 2.6.9 © Privacy Essential, Inc, 2014

Version:
2.6.9

MD5:
3e8b97995505b6590bb23a47f230ae18

SHA-1:
4981fdc146a71e9dc92a553158c0e8353b236107

SHA-256:
7a0f36962bdd1a816b7b8348a71dd129d433bda2b497f5b36ec1186a386b2063

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:
11/27/2024 5:37:29 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
17.3.15.1

File size:
422.4 KB (432,552 bytes)

Product version:
2.6.9

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015 Privacy Essential

Original file name:
updater.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\privacy essential\updater.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Softoware LLC

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/7/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/8/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Softoware LLC, O=Softoware LLC, STREET="1225 Franklin Avenue, Suite 325", L=Garden City, S=New York, PostalCode=11530, C=US

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00F5129FB072A6BEE47D9FF965F7857074

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/7/2014 10:01:18 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x10F92

Entry point:
E8, EE, 75, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 68, 00, 10, 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, 10, 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, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 18, 53, 8B, 5D, 0C, 56, 8B, 73, 08, 33, 35...
 
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Entropy:
6.2520

Code size:
227.5 KB (232,960 bytes)

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