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darkwave-studio-4.6.6.exe

The application darkwave-studio-4.6.6.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 14 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from software.thaiware.com and multiple other hosts.
MD5:
eb9a79f79f67c8c34fdf384d366eb0c0

SHA-1:
647428f998431b053de32095fd9da061285e52be

SHA-256:
3b8c2ad07ea3b2be65488e6c114e7cfe70be4030ac3dc4350df43005c32fb818

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
12/26/2024 12:22:50 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.OpenCandy
7.1.1

AVG
OpenCandy
2016.0.3129

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.7
9.0.1.0114

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy potentially unsafe
9.11522

F-Prot
W32/OpenCandy.B
v6.4.7.1.166

G Data
Win32.Adware.OpenCandy
15.4.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.203.15691

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2015.04.24.10

McAfee
Artemis!EB9A79F79F67
5600.6785

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.OpenCandy!1.9DE5
23.00.65.15422

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0EBC0OD815
7.2.114

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R0EBC0OD815
10.465.24

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.OpenCandy
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Opencandy
39612

File size:
2.5 MB (2,670,224 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\darkwave-studio-4.6.6.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:29 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:HMFPYWcYNCk+TRhOv7YcEofmjLWvOmS1RyEd3giyNYjETcCMD1gHc/MI5U:HMFPYWxNoRUv7tt+5faEd33OY8MpN/DC

Entry address:
0x30DE

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 58, 27, 7A, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, A4, 26, 7A, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 68, DC, 79, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, A0, 1E, 7A, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 80, 7A, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file darkwave-studio-4.6.6.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://software.thaiware.com/download_url.php?id=11313

http://www.experimentalscene.com/.../DarkWave-Studio-4.6.6.exe

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