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wintaske.exe

Yan Jiang

The application wintaske.exe by Yan Jiang 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 named WinTaske triggered daily at a specified time.
Publisher:
Yan Jiang  (signed and verified)

MD5:
cac98d6f5fd87d5195c25589a0ed288e

SHA-1:
36d86633f76e3cec2dee5a41601a66c8b7c52042

SHA-256:
ca314294b62cc2108171173a31e5126e848e9c3d6648d90b64cf00cf82b7086a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
1/2/2025 3:14:22 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ELEX (M)
16.11.8.16

File size:
417.5 KB (427,511 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Yan Jiang

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/14/2016 6:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/26/2016 5:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Yan Jiang, OU=Individual Developer, O=No Organization Affiliation, L=Beijing, S=Beijing, C=CN

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0D086736E024A587D6959B6C9B0C8655

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/17/2016 6:55:35 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:lKa+r/VeZ+IeK/U+hz4nY0Vp338g4gkBjvrEH7q9:ga+rNFIeKTWYcpcg4gOrEH7q9

Entry address:
0x22D09

Entry point:
E9, CE, C1, 01, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, 85, D2, 74, 7F, 0F, B6, 44, 24, 08, 0F, BA, 25, 6C, 31, 45, 00, 01, 73, 0D, 8B, 4C, 24, 0C, 57, 8B, 7C, 24, 08, F3, AA, EB, 5D, 8B, 54, 24, 0C, 81, FA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 7C, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, 00, 13, 45, 00, 01, 0F, 82, 56, 59, 00, 00, 57, 8B, F9, 83, FA, 04, 72, 31, F7, D9, 83, E1, 03, 74, 0C, 2B, D1, 88, 07, 83, C7, 01, 83, E9, 01, 75, F6, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 08, 03, C1, 8B, C8, C1, E0, 10...
 
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Entropy:
6.8685

Packer / compiler:
Xtreme-Protector v1.05

Code size:
249.5 KB (255,488 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
WinTaske

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 12:30 AM)

Description:
Enables the detection, download, and installation of updates for WinTaske and other programs. If this service is disabled, users of this computer will


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