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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:
f3d303430d9dc6169536439cbdb2b3cd

SHA-1:
880040e96642a9347bdc0b6ca0d9ca946ab96a47

SHA-256:
70fe79486f18c66cce7ce196b58ba5c3660bdcc06867354671386a9e65a1d220

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
2/25/2025 8:38:04 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ELEX (M)
17.1.10.8

File size:
2.5 MB (2,585,104 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:
11/26/2015 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/26/2016 6:59:59 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:
5DA147CD5813DFB43C70C7FD0A1B8461

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/25/2016 3:07:16 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

Entry address:
0x22A59

Entry point:
E8, D3, 53, 00, 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, E6, 58, 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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Code size:
249 KB (254,976 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
WinTaske

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 0:58)

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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