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wintaske.exe

Yupeng Zhang

The application wintaske.exe by Yupeng Zhang has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This file is typically installed with the program yessearches Uninstall by ELEX which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
Yupeng Zhang  (signed and verified)

MD5:
29415e74e5f491fd7b091dd66dd4d482

SHA-1:
8d11189e8e083d4fea60dd1259cc5928b78ad84b

SHA-256:
98ba8845228715e8c328f1dfee60f229cd485957fb109509c816428f662a8ee4

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 5:50:22 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Zhang (M)
16.10.21.5

File size:
356.1 KB (364,600 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Yupeng Zhang

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/13/2016 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
2/3/2017 9:59:59 PM

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 6:41:33 AM

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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Code size:
260.5 KB (266,752 bytes)

The file wintaske.exe has been discovered within the following program.

yessearches Uninstall  by ELEX
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