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windowsupdater.exe

The executable windowsupdater.exe has been detected as malware by 3 anti-virus scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
MD5:
1336bcebb4d6605013d1210195560496

SHA-1:
4cfda005e0c09bdad10dd658ec535e5921f84bf7

SHA-256:
7afb2280bf3b7c9921aef26ed211c3e55d7c92869466083c24308298d39324bb

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Malware

Analysis date:
12/23/2024 7:14:52 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]
160503-1

ESET NOD32
Win32/TrojanDownloader.Adload.NRH trojan
8.0.319.0

Norman
Gen:Variant.Razy.59526
19.05.2016 05:17:13

File size:
704.5 KB (721,408 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\windowsupdater.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/26/2016 11:43:50 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:qTeKrlEN2e/WD48I05B/SD4ISoefeO0Wrn8vBm:qT17e/c48IyB/SD4ISoef6Wr

Entry address:
0x41288

Entry point:
E8, E8, BA, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, 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, 44, B6, 4A, 00, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 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, 44, B6, 4A, 00, 33, C5, 50, 89, 65, F0, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F...
 
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Code size:
364 KB (372,736 bytes)

The file windowsupdater.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/.../WindowsUpdater.exe

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