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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:
854c9fe39d815418cec153daf3219d7a

SHA-1:
b7781fb8973840bec7d17f107543fabae72dcb6f

SHA-256:
0df9bffbcf2c81dae3c9196f8046c4cfda8c631aae62614f3d3f7c17ba371499

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
1/2/2025 3:17:34 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ELEX (M)
16.11.2.6

File size:
1.4 MB (1,467,440 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 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/26/2016 7:59:59 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:
3/15/2016 9:39:32 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:+r6TomRoMXn6y1A5pm0HN7VFAMZGxSVi9lvrkIZ0zFMg0Qrg4ido:m6Tom6MKEA5pX5Gkihrkl21Qrg4+o

Entry address:
0x22D39

Entry point:
E8, 45, 54, 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, 58, 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:
2.0819

Code size:
249.5 KB (255,488 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
WinTaske

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 12:11 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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