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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. 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.
Publisher:
Yupeng Zhang  (signed and verified)

MD5:
01ba6097dc9b7031cf0a4438a1f02d3d

SHA-1:
ff76842f6a3883e1e42a77f5c40fa0f06181138d

SHA-256:
a9815da2891948ca81b38a68cd25b31481c089ea58781e23a56e13aa89787306

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 5:33:22 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Zhang.YupengZh.Meta (M)
16.7.1.16

File size:
348.6 KB (356,920 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:
3/14/2016 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/4/2017 12:59:59 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:
3/29/2016 5:50:58 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:8a/Pneo2vdgxChjeTAzP8M5HGAQKCazCe7WGGwqTYyfpzW:V3neoa60X78KHBQKCazCTTTYyfpzW

Entry address:
0x25089

Entry point:
E8, 33, 57, 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, 41, 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, 23, 45, 00, 01, 0F, 82, 46, 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...
 
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Code size:
258.5 KB (264,704 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
WinTaske

Trigger:
Daily (Runs daily at 00:42)

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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