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ares.exe

Free-mium GmbH

The application ares.exe by Free-mium GmbH 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 is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from tmpfile107.s3.amazonaws.com.
Publisher:
Free-mium GmbH  (signed and verified)

MD5:
07a0868f1f4156b8a96a192d211452c4

SHA-1:
828282d8eb8111c637fbe39667e54d29f521b7af

SHA-256:
a1874c267e634b0ddc445972c3998e17c4e198d81c763f6adb12ff4314deb16f

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
12/28/2024 7:53:33 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Freemium (M)
16.2.14.15

File size:
513.4 KB (525,672 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\ares.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Free-mium GmbH

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
4/28/2015 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/28/2016 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Free-mium GmbH, O=Free-mium GmbH, L=Berlin, S=Berlin, C=DE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
3AF8BC0C86618D48C79383622867AB5F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/11/2016 12:27:36 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:cee5YGotTje2qSZI5DDTXjEtALsydE2Aw6DRT2sbgVB1NedG:3G72qSZI5DDvEtALkw6DRT2tVBDedG

Entry address:
0x13D2C

Entry point:
E8, B4, 7A, 00, 00, E9, 89, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 20, 8B, 45, 08, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 38, 55, 45, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 89, 45, F8, 8B, 45, 0C, 5F, 89, 45, FC, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, 98, 51, 45, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, 98, 82, 47, 00, 89, 0D, 94, 82, 47, 00, 89, 15, 90, 82, 47, 00, 89, 1D, 8C, 82, 47, 00, 89, 35, 88, 82, 47, 00, 89, 3D...
 
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Code size:
332.5 KB (340,480 bytes)

The file ares.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

https://tmpfile107.s3.amazonaws.com/download77/ic_trackings/43/.../ares.exe

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