desktop.exe

Desktop

New IT Limited

This is a bundle installer which bundles 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. The program is a setup application that uses the New IT Desktop Setup installer.
Publisher:
New IT Solutions  (signed by New IT Limited)

Product:
Desktop

Version:
4.0.14.27377

MD5:
be18bd4b8e3988efcdbd140312a2661e

SHA-1:
be628691c4e31ce368001b62674f9dafa7543bc5

SHA-256:
0c3ec1907a264fd3617f69b12a855b06aaadbc91c4657aa2fd139a61389ac5b3

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.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 12:20:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.New IT Limited (M)
17.3.13.19

File size:
13.9 MB (14,627,392 bytes)

Product version:
4.0

Copyright:
New IT Solutions

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
New IT Desktop Setup

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
2/3/2015 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
2/4/2016 6:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=New IT Limited, O=New IT Limited, STREET="48 Themistolkli Dervis Street, Centennial Building", STREET="3rd Floor, office 303", L=Nicosia, S=Nicosia, PostalCode=1066, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
0E65FF1CA366ECF94666819342163027

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/20/2015 8:10:05 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

Entry address:
0x8F705C

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, EC, 53, 33, C0, 89, 45, EC, B8, 90, 67, CD, 00, E8, 76, 95, 71, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, A6, 71, CF, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 8D, 45, EC, 8B, 15, AC, C4, D1, 00, 8B, 12, E8, 80, 4D, 71, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B9, 01, 00, 00, 00, B8, C0, 71, CF, 00, E8, 52, 53, 71, FF, 8B, D8, 68, DC, 71, CF, 00, 68, FC, 71, CF, 00, E8, 9D, E3, 71, FF, 85, C0, 75, 0F, 68, DC, 71, CF, 00, 68, 0C, 72, CF, 00, E8, 8A, E3, 71, FF, 85, C0, 74, 3E, 85, DB, 7E, 11, A1, AC, C5, D1, 00, 8B, 00, E8, 0E, 63, 94, FF, E9, B1...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
9 MB (9,395,712 bytes)

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