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bittorrentaccelerationpatch_installer.exe

BitTorrent Acceleration Patch

Hipgnosis Vision

The application bittorrentaccelerationpatch_installer.exe by Hipgnosis Vision has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.download-boosters.com.
Publisher:
DownloadBoosters LLC  (signed by Hipgnosis Vision)

Product:
BitTorrent Acceleration Patch

Version:
7.2.0.0

MD5:
bac15783fd261258ca8ee4cc7c7f0741

SHA-1:
1f929e5a3fb3be0ac130e45047ef87e4a2d145d4

SHA-256:
892a15f16a4a55a18732f212b8574da855810bfabc13cdbf8d1e510dbdc3d78c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
11/5/2024 12:54:04 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Hipgnosi.Installer (M)
16.3.18.0

File size:
1.9 MB (2,014,896 bytes)

Copyright:
� DownloadBoosters LLC

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\bittorrentaccelerationpatch_installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Hipgnosis Vision

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
2/16/2015 5:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/17/2016 4:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Hipgnosis Vision, O=Hipgnosis Vision, L=Craiova, S=Dolj, C=RO

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
74CB8A9F6210A537EAE293153461ED0C

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/25/2012 12:19:59 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:5IZBOkXyV7+973o3wvSRDmaULsTk05zuiWqkUpTxOjGFuDUK:52BFXyV7arSRjuGq1j0uDr

Entry address:
0x39E3

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, D8, 91, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B8, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 37, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 1C, 93, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 04, 93, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 19, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 07, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9862

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
28 KB (28,672 bytes)

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

http://www.download-boosters.com/.../BitTorrentAccelerationPatch_installer.exe

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