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darkwave-studio-4.9.0.exe

The application darkwave-studio-4.9.0.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 www.experimentalscene.com.
MD5:
ab80c698b7ef90214a56b691ff3dd877

SHA-1:
f55e74534d17feec5dfd8336d8b3383e15eba4a3

SHA-256:
a36cb2d51650838f36a3db90fb5606f76dac7ceee45d9819857ff15cc495643d

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:
11/2/2024 5:32:43 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
2014.9-150812

AVG
OpenCandy
2016.0.3020

Baidu Antivirus
Adware.Win32.OpenCandy
4.0.3.15812

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.137
9.0.1.0224

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy.C potentially unsafe (variant)
9.12079

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/OpenCandy
8/12/2015

G Data
Win32.Application.OpenCandy
15.8.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.207.16857

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2015.08.12.10

McAfee
Artemis!AB80C698B7EF
5600.6676

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OpenCandy.Installer (L)
15.8.12.10

Sophos
OpenCandy (PUA)
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
42802

File size:
2.5 MB (2,618,507 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\darkwave-studio-4.9.0.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 11:50:29 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:DYKSw6bVHe/x7oNAqjd9R4zr+bUX7BsGXzYrN0px0b1I9bR:D4he/x7oNbjdE9HuNIxcI91

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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Entropy:
7.9407

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file darkwave-studio-4.9.0.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.experimentalscene.com/.../DarkWave-Studio-4.9.0.exe

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