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winsweeper.exe

Celeritas Software Company

The application winsweeper.exe by Celeritas Software Company 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 is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘WinSweep’.
Publisher:
Celeritas Software Company  (signed and verified)

MD5:
3cdc8cb58741714c2d633206c57ceec4

SHA-1:
7bb7c5f41ecf5bd3d4f33d3bf680e58bafa2d1d9

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 12:13:38 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.Startup.K
14.11.21.23

File size:
1.2 MB (1,276,600 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\winsweeper\winsweeper.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Celeritas Software Company

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/8/2009 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
12/9/2011 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Celeritas Software Company, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Celeritas Software Company, L=Chicago, S=Illinois, 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:
646BBA36353C7EC185BABFFE8137426F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:gHnYoJnqWlSa4P1W1BiLZux9KuTAjErnHVXQst:ZoJqh5H0JTAjE1X5t

Entry address:
0xDD16C

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, 53, B8, 9C, CD, 4D, 00, E8, E7, 96, F2, FF, 8B, 1D, 1C, 63, 4E, 00, 8B, 0B, B2, 01, A1, AC, CB, 4D, 00, E8, FB, 5D, F9, FF, 8B, 15, 58, 62, 4E, 00, 89, 02, A1, 58, 62, 4E, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 3F, A1, F9, FF, 8B, 03, E8, 38, D6, F9, FF, 8B, 03, C6, 40, 5B, 00, A1, 58, 62, 4E, 00, 8B, 00, 8B, 10, FF, 92, 88, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, BA, 5C, D2, 4D, 00, E8, 0F, D2, F9, FF, 8B, 0D, 0C, 60, 4E, 00, 8B, 03, 8B, 15, 84, 80, 4D, 00, E8, 1C, D6, F9, FF, 8B, 0D, 7C, 62, 4E, 00, 8B, 03, 8B, 15, 74, 4A...
 
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Entropy:
6.8165

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
881 KB (902,144 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
WinSweep

Command:
C:\Program Files\winsweeper\winsweeper.exe


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