vertical articulation in elementary education.exe

Andrey Hmelnikov

The is the installer for the WebPick InstalleRex download manager which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed without consent. The application vertical articulation in elementary education.exe by Andrey Hmelnikov has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from groupsetzipmyjob.org.
Publisher:
Andrey Hmelnikov  (signed and verified)

MD5:
eb2152b194ec27441666073e430a0a10

SHA-1:
28b8e9452878582360b56459cd645eda5729fd3e

SHA-256:
7502acb711bb025c1286b6098389d49a79c504cffb09adaec0a5a352dfc79778

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
12/26/2024 4:18:36 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.WebPick.AndreyHm (M)
16.7.11.21

File size:
1.1 MB (1,106,296 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\vertical articulation in elementary education.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Unizeto Technologies S.A.

Valid from:
6/23/2014 3:25:04 PM

Valid to:
6/23/2015 3:25:04 PM

Subject:
E=Andrey.Hmelnikov@hotmail.com, CN=Andrey Hmelnikov, O=Andrey Hmelnikov, C=RU

Issuer:
CN=Certum Code Signing CA, OU=Certum Certification Authority, O=Unizeto Technologies S.A., C=PL

Serial number:
727B500ADD12D49F610A094EBFE02E4B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/16/2012 8:53:43 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:VHTI2hxwWKGpAI9YRw37iFuCls8n7cqTL3mssA7PPmN9AO8:V823wJGiWYRmOFo87cIL2sXPeN9Ax

Entry address:
0xB1F99

Entry point:
E8, FE, 13, 00, 00, E9, 03, 00, 00, 00, CC, CC, CC, 6A, 14, 68, A0, 8A, 4F, 00, E8, 0E, 19, 00, 00, E8, C8, 15, 00, 00, 0F, B7, F0, 6A, 02, E8, 8E, 13, 00, 00, 59, B8, 4D, 5A, 00, 00, 66, 39, 05, 00, 00, 40, 00, 74, 04, 33, DB, EB, 33, A1, 3C, 00, 40, 00, 81, B8, 00, 00, 40, 00, 50, 45, 00, 00, 75, EB, B9, 0B, 01, 00, 00, 66, 39, 88, 18, 00, 40, 00, 75, DD, 33, DB, 83, B8, 74, 00, 40, 00, 0E, 76, 09, 39, 98, E8, 00, 40, 00, 0F, 95, C3, 89, 5D, E4, E8, 3D, 03, 00, 00, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, DC, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.4069

Code size:
732.5 KB (750,080 bytes)

The file vertical articulation in elementary education.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.