wintaske.exe

Yupeng Zhang

The application wintaske.exe by Yupeng Zhang has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 3 anti-malware scanners. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler named WinTaske triggered daily at a specified time. This file is typically installed with the program yessearches Uninstall by ELEX which is a potentially unwanted software program. While running, it connects to the Internet address server-54-230-122-133.dfw50.r.cloudfront.net on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
Yupeng Zhang  (signed and verified)

MD5:
29415e74e5f491fd7b091dd66dd4d482

SHA-1:
41470812175f5f481c3db9dc1987e8fef797c6f5

SHA-256:
98ba8845228715e8c328f1dfee60f229cd485957fb109509c816428f662a8ee4

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/28/2024 12:45:40 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AegisLab AV Signature
AdWare.W32.Agent
2.1.4+

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/QVM10.1.0000.Malware.Gen
1.0.0.1120

Reason Heuristics
Adware.SearchBeyond (M)
16.3.28.6

File size:
356.1 KB (364,600 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/14/2016 4:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/4/2017 3:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Yupeng Zhang, 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:
56ED9E7C28D4E65DF6EF0253265ACB11

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/23/2016 1:41:33 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:fIIQJQIcfiqkTY35+jw4Rlb49+/6zsLl/ciZolk/mqS5lHp:fIzFUgY3YjwTGWg9alk+qS5lHp

Entry address:
0x2588A

Entry point:
E8, 7E, 57, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 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, 30, 61, 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, F8, 42, 45, 00, 01, 0F, 82, 92, 5C, 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, 03...
 
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Entropy:
6.4463

Code size:
260.5 KB (266,752 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
WinTaske

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 15:29)

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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The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-52-84-7-45.ord54.r.cloudfront.net  (52.84.7.45:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-206-241.atl50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.206.241:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-52-84-63-58.ord51.r.cloudfront.net  (52.84.63.58:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-95-149.fra2.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.95.149:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-163-254.jax1.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.163.254:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-51-133.jfk5.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.51.133:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-95-6.fra2.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.95.6:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-52-84-63-40.ord51.r.cloudfront.net  (52.84.63.40:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-239-132-36.sfo9.r.cloudfront.net  (54.239.132.36:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-95-233.fra2.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.95.233:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-81-195.mia50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.81.195:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-81-17.mia50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.81.17:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-81-127.mia50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.81.127:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-216-101.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.216.101:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-206-150.atl50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.206.150:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-163-38.jax1.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.163.38:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-163-233.jax1.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.163.233:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-230-122-133.dfw50.r.cloudfront.net  (54.230.122.133:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-55-17.jfk6.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.55.17:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to server-54-192-36-56.jfk1.r.cloudfront.net  (54.192.36.56:80)

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