HD-Agent.exe
BlueStacks by Bluestack Systems (Signed)
| Version: | 0.7.8.829 |
| MD5: | d505df0fde206cbc0fe43b8deb5fe2f4 |
| SHA1: | 13fe39beda199f4dd512e39ca67f67d8b988e9eb |
| SHA256: | b224bdebbef73f783b2aa6329d37613240447e97fb55c246160b147ae7ea2bcb |
Overview
hd-agent.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
wondershareapplicationcenter.exe (WondershareApplicationCenter by Wondershare Software Co.). It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). It is installed with a couple of know programs including BlueStacks App Player published by BlueStack Systems, Inc., BlueStacks App Player from BlueStack Systems, Inc. and BlueStacks App Player by BlueStack Systems, Inc..
Details
| File name: | hd-agent.exe |
| Publisher: | BlueStack Systems, Inc. |
| Product name: | BlueStacks |
| Description: | BlueStacks Agent |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\bluestacks\hd-agent.exe |
| File version: | 0.7.8.829 |
| Size: | 583.87 KB (597,880 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Bluestack Systems |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Friday, February 3, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“BlueStacks is the first production software that allows you to use your favorite mobile apps on a Windows PC. You can download apps like Angry Birds Space, Temple Run, Evernote or Documents to Go directly into BlueStacks, or sync the apps from your phone using the BlueStacks Cloud Connect Android app.”
1Mobile Market is a mobile app that can run on the BlueStacks App Player. The BlueStacks App Player lets you run apps from your phone fast and fullscreen on Windows.
“BlueStacks App Player lets you run apps from your phone fast and fullscreen on Windows and Mac. BlueStacks helps PC manufacturers to ride the Android momentum by enabling Android Apps to be run on x86 based ultrabooks, tablets, netbooks, notebooks, hybrid and all-in-one devices with a Windows operating system. The seamless user experience, simultaneous use of Windows apps with Android apps, and multi-touch enablement are built on groun...”
“BlueStacks App Player lets you run apps from your phone fast and fullscreen on Windows. At the heart of BlueStacks is a multi-OS runtime with breakthrough virtualization technology. Apps developed for different operating systems can execute simultaneously, side-by-side, on the same computer. The BlueStacks user interface is fully configurable. In addition, BlueStacks can integrate with the custom software experiences designed and develo...”
This adware program injects advertisements with its affiliate ad providers in order to serve a number of ad types including banner, inline text links and popups.
These ads are aimed to promote the installation of additional questionable content including web browser toolbars, optimization utilities and other products.
Once infected by this common symptoms include:
- Random web page text is turned into hyperlinks.
- Web pages bec...
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'BlueStacks Agent' → C:\Program Files\BlueStacks\HD-Agent.exe
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00798118% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00457788% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00340330% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 6,396,150 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 27.3 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 22.82 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 17.39 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 27.3 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 206.56 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 214.06 MB | |
| Working set: | 22.76 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 23.22 MB | |
| Page faults: | 11,084/min | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 19 | |
| Handles: | 546 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 22 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 24 | |
| GUI USER count: | 18 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 20 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.02126768% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02126768% | |
| CPU cycles: | 73,665/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| HD-Agent.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00695526% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00422915% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00272611% | |
| CPU cycles: | 158,893/sec | |
| Memory: | 592 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
44.44% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
14.81% |
|
| Windows 8 |
14.81% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
11.11% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
7.41% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
3.70% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
3.70% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 29.63% of BlueStacks.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
22.86% |
|
| Toshiba |
22.86% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
11.43% |
|
| Intel |
11.43% |
|
| Acer |
8.57% |
|
| Dell |
5.71% |
|
| Lenovo |
5.71% |
|
| MSI |
5.71% |
|
| Sony |
5.71% |
|
