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winstartmenulauncher.exe

Tripro Ltd

The application winstartmenulauncher.exe by Tripro has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It runs as a windows Service named “Windows Start Menu Service”.
Publisher:
Tripro Ltd  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9d163676830ec5ab1003105cad1ba1c3

SHA-1:
1e77b4d6cd026c9d65361fde237fc47e946e8d95

SHA-256:
f5328f68cd8091d92bfffbda20b40d40a3d82edf68164588d561b8a1ed413413

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 1:00:14 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP (M)
16.10.11.5

File size:
243.6 KB (249,432 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win64 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\smart menu\winstartmenulauncher.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Tripro Ltd

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/29/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/30/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Tripro Ltd, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Tripro Ltd, L=Hong Kong, S=Hong Kong, C=HK

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:
1189C239E85299F4464322E094264D91

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/5/2014 9:40:21 AM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win64

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:857rP5DSqluY6bVHbP9dO/JWGpH1iJM+EOCzvEocwo:857VDbluY61vO/JWGiJj7wo

Entry address:
0x21C50

Entry point:
48, 83, EC, 28, E8, 87, 02, 00, 00, 48, 83, C4, 28, E9, 7E, FE, FF, FF, FF, 25, A8, 69, 00, 00, 48, 8B, C4, 4C, 89, 48, 20, 44, 89, 40, 18, 48, 89, 50, 10, 53, 56, 57, 41, 56, 48, 83, EC, 38, 4D, 8B, F1, 49, 63, F8, 48, 8B, F2, 83, 60, C8, 00, 48, 8B, DF, 48, 0F, AF, DA, 48, 03, D9, 48, 89, 58, 08, FF, CF, 89, 7C, 24, 70, 78, 10, 48, 2B, DE, 48, 89, 5C, 24, 60, 48, 8B, CB, 41, FF, D6, EB, E8, C7, 44, 24, 20, 01, 00, 00, 00, 48, 83, C4, 38, 41, 5E, 5F, 5E, 5B, C3, CC, CC, CC, 48, 89, 5C, 24, 10, 44, 89, 44...
 
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Entropy:
6.0749

Code size:
152.5 KB (156,160 bytes)

Service
Display name:
Windows Start Menu Service

Service name:
WinStartMenuLauncher

Type:
Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess


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