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desktop.exe

4shared Desktop

New IT Limited

This is part of a bundled installer which provides applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application desktop.exe by New IT Limited has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘4shared Desktop’.
Publisher:
New IT Solutions  (signed by New IT Limited)

Product:
4shared Desktop

Version:
3.3.4.0

MD5:
34da77d1c235ed23ad053d8c722b0110

SHA-1:
5ee64d0d6452c9f09315b414273a92658362bb78

SHA-256:
daab23287d1023cb4762c6f7d1c8d419d6671edeca179d2fd33fea2908dbfa53

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
12/24/2024 11:42:07 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.New IT Limited (M)
16.8.27.1

File size:
4.4 MB (4,613,624 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.0

Copyright:
New IT Solutions

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\4shared desktop\desktop.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
New IT Limited

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
10/28/2010 9:33:24 AM

Valid to:
10/27/2011 8:30:06 AM

Subject:
CN=New IT Limited, O=New IT Limited, L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, C=CY

Issuer:
SERIALNUMBER=07969287, CN=Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority, OU=http://certificates.godaddy.com/repository, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
27DDE55D2F337F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/16/2011 6:04:39 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:wq9eNo9YLnPne3nYTYvMCH8tDPhkKjhVKFd5feC//KhVebT0TLVQGZpBE/Iz:wq9h9anv2/MCMRAd5WCSVIKF

Entry address:
0x2E81F8

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, 53, B8, 54, 13, 6E, 00, E8, CF, 1A, D2, FF, 68, CC, 82, 6E, 00, 68, EC, 82, 6E, 00, E8, 74, 2A, D2, FF, 85, C0, 75, 0F, 68, CC, 82, 6E, 00, 68, FC, 82, 6E, 00, E8, 61, 2A, D2, FF, 85, C0, 74, 26, 6A, 04, 50, E8, CD, 2B, D2, FF, 8B, D8, 6A, 09, 53, E8, 8B, 2E, D2, FF, 53, E8, ED, 2D, D2, FF, A1, F4, 59, 6F, 00, 8B, 00, E8, C1, C9, DD, FF, EB, 70, A1, F4, 59, 6F, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 2B, C7, DD, FF, A1, F4, 59, 6F, 00, 8B, 00, BA, 18, 83, 6E, 00, E8, 7E, C1, DD, FF, 8B, 0D, F4, 53, 6F, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.4717

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
2.9 MB (3,043,840 bytes)

Startup File (User Run)
Registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Name:
4shared Desktop

Command:
"C:\Program Files\4shared desktop\desktop.exe" "startup"


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