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Free-mium GmbH

The application chrome.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 tmpfile671.s3.amazonaws.com.
Publisher:
Free-mium GmbH  (signed and verified)

MD5:
918c216934ac39bc676e31d6794f9ca4

SHA-1:
9812f82212b99e573ec2b49f8bc2fa568a390075

SHA-256:
70f129f04f1e2ac45bc315c46a8ab2d28b9e978b859582e0d5b3ed4593264d2a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
2/26/2025 7:01:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Freemium (M)
16.2.25.9

File size:
529.4 KB (542,096 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\chrome.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:
1/29/2016 3:01:31 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:CKC8h9Ddpt8Qbm8MbaVei/3A7QVsv9yVAYxdy4AhwPYzVssj:RDJ8Qbm8z7/3A8Vsv9yVAYTysEVj

Entry address:
0x1468C

Entry point:
E8, D4, 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, 75, 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, B4, 71, 45, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, 98, A2, 47, 00, 89, 0D, 94, A2, 47, 00, 89, 15, 90, A2, 47, 00, 89, 1D, 8C, A2, 47, 00, 89, 35, 88, A2, 47, 00, 89, 3D...
 
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Code size:
344 KB (352,256 bytes)

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

https://tmpfile671.s3.amazonaws.com/download77/covus_trackings/960/.../chrome.exe

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