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updatetask.exe

IAC Search and Media

This is the updater scheduled task run by the Ask.com branded toolbar that runs every 24 hours and suggests updates to the browser add-on (and the web browser) and will perform automatic updates to the toolbar with new functionality. The application updatetask.exe by IAC Search and Media 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 scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered daily at a specified time.
Publisher:
IAC Search and Media  (signed and verified)

MD5:
142c168fd81f3a661f792632bf41ac19

SHA-1:
5ae5224cdf2f5ca4629e3fcf252fb02ebffee1a7

SHA-256:
c23867349015dbb4022486a97aa569a0ca74aee9a48a5389c730b3ecadc7c8be

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:
12/24/2024 12:07:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Ask.IACSearchandMedia (M)
16.1.9.19

File size:
94 KB (96,208 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\ask.com\updatetask.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
IAC Search and Media

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/20/2009 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
10/20/2012 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=IAC Search and Media, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=IAC Search and Media, L=Oakland, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2009-2 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)09, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
596DF135D6540E700E84211A065D9C98

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/1/2010 3:13:46 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:3FHXad+sMvcIafpWp70GoJkYwVTCTuNRk7u9XPI08hvUy8l5uzcCgJ:Vaau0WjRKTP8hMRl5ukJ

Entry address:
0x7DE4

Entry point:
E8, E2, 49, 00, 00, E9, 78, FE, FF, FF, 6A, 0C, 68, 88, 29, 41, 00, E8, 4E, 1C, 00, 00, 83, 65, E4, 00, 8B, 75, 08, 3B, 35, A4, 5E, 41, 00, 77, 22, 6A, 04, E8, 41, 11, 00, 00, 59, 83, 65, FC, 00, 56, E8, 48, 19, 00, 00, 59, 89, 45, E4, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, E8, 09, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 45, E4, E8, 5A, 1C, 00, 00, C3, 6A, 04, E8, 3C, 10, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 83, FE, E0, 0F, 87, A1, 00, 00, 00, 53, 57, 8B, 3D, E0, 00, 41, 00, 83, 3D, 44, 55, 41, 00, 00, 75, 18, E8, 63, 40, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.3482

Code size:
59 KB (60,416 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
Scheduled Update for Ask Toolbar

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 3:05 PM)


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